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  "thread": {
    "id": 1493,
    "subject": "some Hindi, some Hebrew",
    "messages": 2,
    "voices": 2,
    "first": "2001-12-04T15:27:53+00:00",
    "last": "2001-12-10T12:33:20+00:00"
  },
  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<whorl-v0013-whorl.v012.n169.2@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "mark millman",
        "address": "millman at us.ncipher.com"
      },
      "date": "2001-12-04T15:27:53+00:00",
      "subject": "some Hindi, some Hebrew",
      "in_reply_to": null,
      "reply_link": null,
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          "text": "\"Choora\" is a specific word for a type of Afghan military \nknife, from the region around the Khyber Pass, meant to \npierce mail armor; it's single-edged, sharply tapered, and \nhas a reinforced spine. \n\nI don't have any idea of what \"gaon\" might mean in Hin-\ndi; but I wonder if it mightn't have suggested itself to \nWolfe through the association with the Hebrew word \n\"gaon\", genius (in the sense of a remarkable intellect, not \nspirit, as in the Latin _genius loci_).  The word is proba-\nbly best known to English-speakers as the epithet of \nthe eighteenth-century Rabbi Eliyahu (Elijah ben Solomon \nZalman) of Vilnius, who was known as the Vilna Gaon. \n\nNacre"
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "At 06:10 AM 12/3/2001 -0800, alga wrote:\nEule wrote:"
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 2,
          "text": "Hindu----not so sure about the \naccuracy but fwiw:\nchoora - four (the Rajan's knife)"
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "I can count to ten in Hindi--though I need \na jog to get started. Choora is not four.\n\n[snip]"
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 2,
          "text": "gaon - knowledge understanding knowing"
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "[snip]\n\n-alga"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "message_id": "<whorl-v0013-whorl.v012.n173.2@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "matthew.malthouse",
        "address": "matthew.malthouse at guardian.co.uk"
      },
      "date": "2001-12-10T12:33:20+00:00",
      "subject": "Re: (whorl) some Hindi, some Hebrew",
      "in_reply_to": "<whorl-v0013-whorl.v012.n169.2@digest.urth.net>",
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          "depth": 1,
          "text": "On 04/12/2001 15:27:53 mark millman wrote:\n\"Choora\" is a specific word for a type of Afghan military\nknife, from the region around the Khyber Pass, meant to\npierce mail armor; it's single-edged, sharply tapered, and\nhas a reinforced spine."
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
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          "text": "Makes me think Thrax...   :-)\n\n\nMatthew"
        }
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