Last year, the Colorado Department of Transportation counted 95,752 cars on I-25 at U.S. Highway 34 the day of the showdown, about 2,000 cars more than the week before, CDOT spokesman Jared Fiel said.
To make sure that they always had the upper hand, the Chinese invented many simple, yet effective tools of war. The Military inventions of ancient China were the kite, the wheelbarrow, naval mines, land mines, the flamethrower, the early form of mustard gas, the fire lance, paper armor, and the crossbow.
â¢ Mustard gas was used in anger during the 1960s in the North Yemen civil war. Twenty years later, Saddam Hussein outraged the world by dropping it on both the Iranian army and Iraqâs own Kurdish population. More than 5,000 civilians died in a mustard gas attack on the city of Halabja in 1988.