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* On a far more depressing note, the Rwandan Genocide was chiefly conducted by men wielding machetes. See [[Hotel Rwanda]] for details.
* The machete on the [[wikipedia:Flag of Angola|Angolan flag?]] It actually stands for ''[[Harsher in Hindsight|agriculture.]]''
* The usefulness of a cheap heavy knife whether as a weapon or a tool is such that various versions can be found. According to one source This Tropper has read(somewhere or other) the original Bowie was large enough to be a machete in function. The Saxons of course got their name from the Sax and would call the machete a sax, although amusingly [[White Anglo Saxon Protestant| White Anglo Saxon Protostants]] are more familiar with machetes and would consider a sax an antique. The Fascine Knife for [[The Engineer]] to [[Exactly What It Says On the Tin| make fascines with]] came in a variety of shapes, and its purpose was to cut twigs and tie them together for the eighteenth century equiv of sandbags otherwise known as fascines.
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