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Funny how they were named by "pilots who first saw them from the air in the 1920s" and not by the people who built them.
by LeifCarrotson 8y ago
Funny how they were named by "pilots who first saw them from the air in the 1920s" and not by the people who built them.
- nkrisc 8y agoPresumably the people who built them didn't call them "desert kites." I think it's pretty clear the author was referring to that name when pilots in the 1920s were said to have named them.
- joosters 8y agoSince they were abandoned about 4000 years ago, I'd imagine that it's quite hard to find any records of their original name...
- rtkwe 8y agoWriting and history were pretty new at the time too so we probably don't even have a record of what they were called by the people who used them if they ever wrote it down to begin with.