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Old 17-07-07, 01:08 PM
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Originally Posted by Kalahari Diver
The headache is probably caused by absorbing explosive through your skin. The women who worked in munitions in the first WW were called canaries because of the colour of their skin from absorbing the explosive, [various forms of nitrocellulose I think] and apparently lived with headaches. By the way is digging around this wise? Anti-personnel was sometimes a euphemism for gas shells and they are so dangerous even now that the Belgian army bomb squads who have lots of experience with this stuff treat them very carefully indeed.

David.

Yeah, they're ok. Just brass full of cordite.
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