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minus-squaredrath@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 day agoWhere did the trend of writing on munitions come from? Is it Ukraine or were there cases before that? I’m trying to figure why would anyone ever do that, to me it sounds the same as mass shooter gun scribbles kind of lunacy.
minus-squareSoftestSapphic@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·edit-21 day agoI know we did it some in ww1. Edit: I didn’t expect anyone to have researched this lol https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/3buled/when_did_the_practice_of_writing_messages_on/ Here’s a slingshot ammo from that thread 500BC-1BC https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/G_1851-0507-11
Where did the trend of writing on munitions come from? Is it Ukraine or were there cases before that? I’m trying to figure why would anyone ever do that, to me it sounds the same as mass shooter gun scribbles kind of lunacy.
I know we did it some in ww1.
Edit: I didn’t expect anyone to have researched this lol
https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/3buled/when_did_the_practice_of_writing_messages_on/
Here’s a slingshot ammo from that thread 500BC-1BC
https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/G_1851-0507-11