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  5. GREEK FIRE
  6. Greek fire was reputedly invented by Archimedes during the Roman seige of
  7. Syracuse. It was a mixture of burning pitch and nepthyr and was catapulted
  8. from one ship against another and used extensively in early naval warfare.
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