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History 101
Chazzy, this one's for you!
I got this book last night that is totally awesome! It's called "Weird History 101... and other tales of intrigue, mayhem, and outrageous behavior" If you don't have it already, I suggest you go out asap and get it!
Here's one excerpt from the story of Wyatt Earp. This is just a "side note" from one page.
For those who love movies, Tombstone, starring Kurt Russell and Val Kilmer, and Wyatt Earp, starring Kevin Costner and Dennis Quaid, are both excellent films. Though they both contain many inaccuracies, Tombstone is the more accurate of the two. But both are definitely worth seeing.
You have to get this book, Chaz!!! 
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| August 4, 2006, 09:07 |
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Re: History 101
I do love history....and dammit...cowboys are hot!
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| August 4, 2006, 09:08 |
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I'll post a few interesting items from the book every once in a while... when I can get my nose out of it! It's very interesting!
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| August 4, 2006, 09:14 |
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How many pages? Can't ya just scan it all page by page and email it to me? 
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| August 4, 2006, 09:19 |
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Sure! All 318 of 'em... I'll have it to ya' by 2010 
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| August 4, 2006, 09:26 |
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Ok, Chaz, I'm gonna hit ya' with a bunch of interesting stuff. Give ya' something to read in your spare time.... like you have any, right? lol
Hope you enjoy it!
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"Come all you kind husband who have scolding wives
who thro' (through) living together are tired of your lives,
If you cannot persuade her, nor good-natur'd make her,
Place a rope round her neck & to market pray take her."
These words, from a song written in about 1696, refer to the practice of divorcing one's wife by selling her off. It's uncertain when and where divorce by sale began, but some say it was going on in England at least as far back as the eighth century A.D. It mostly occurred in rural areas among the lower classes.
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| August 4, 2006, 14:01 |
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One morning in 1705, an ape who had been the mascot of a ship that wrecked, washed ashore in a rowboat at West Hartlepool in England. The villagers had never seen an ape before, and since England was then at war with France, they assumed the strange creature was a French spy and immediately placed it under arrest. At the ape's court martial, the unfortunate animal was found guilty of espionage and sent to the gallows.
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| August 4, 2006, 14:02 |
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In 1994, the Philippines' "hanging judge," Maximiano Asuncion, announced that he thought people sentenced to death should have to wrestle poisonous snakes in a giant aquarium where the public could watch.
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| August 4, 2006, 14:03 |
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Take some lice and call me in the morning:
Everyone knows that the medical community once had a fondness for leeches and bloodletting. Well, here are some other interesting medical cures not offered today.....
For a plague sore- cut a live pigeon in half and apply half to the sore to draw out the venom.
For headache- apply the noose of a hanged man.
For gout- take raspings from a hanged man's skull.
As a snuff- snort moss from a hanged man's skull.
As an unguent- apply baby's fat.
For satyriasis (the male version of nymphomania)- "leape into a great vessel of cold water or put nettles in the codpiece."
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| August 4, 2006, 14:04 |
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Maintaining order in the military is very important. Here is how the U.S. Navy did it in 1848. This list of punishments for delinquent squids appeared in Horace Greeley's The Tribune Almanac for the Years 1838 to 1868.
For bad cooking- 12 strokes of the whip
For stealing a major's wig- 12 strokes of the whip
For skulking- 12 strokes of the whip
For running into debt on shore- 12 strokes of the whip
For tearing a sailor's frock- 9 strokes of the whip
For filthiness- 12 strokes of the whip
For striking a schoolmaster- 12 strokes of the whip
For drunkenness and breaking into the liquor closet- 12 strokes of the whip
For noise at quarters- 6 strokes of the whip
For bad language- 12 strokes of the whip
For dirty and unwashed clothes- 12 strokes of the whip
For being out of hammock after hours- 12 strokes of the whip
For throwing overboard the top of a spittoon- 6 strokes of the whip
For taking bread out to oven- 9 strokes of the whip
For neglecting mess utensils- 12 strokes of the whip
For taking clothes on shore to sell-12 strokes of the whip
For skylarking (running up and down the rigging of a ship)- 6 strokes of the whip
For being naked on deck- 9 strokes of the whip
I must admit, I don't know why they whipped sailors more for taking bread out of the oven than for tossing the spittoon lid overboard. I have to wonder what punishments they would have meted out for some of the offenses in the Tailhook scandal. Here is a list of chapter heading from the Pentagon's report on the abuses at the Navy's Tailhook Association convention in 1991:
"Streaking, Mooning, Ballwalking, Leg Shaving, Belly/Navel shots, Chicken Fighting, and Butt Biting." I guess streaking would be the same as being naked on deck. At least at Tailhook, they didn't take the bread out of the oven.
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| August 4, 2006, 14:07 |
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The Army of the Netherlands is a bit unusual in that its soldiers belong to a union called the VVDM. As a result, Dutch grunts only salute during ceremonies, get overtime pay for unpleasant duties like KP, can wear sneakers instead of combat boots when on maneuvers, and their hair can be any length as long as they wear a hairnet around heavy machinery.
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| August 4, 2006, 14:09 |
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Many moons ago:
Like the rest of the world at that time, the Vikings were very cruel. One of the ways they liked to kill their enemies was by a hideous method called "the blood eagle." The victim's back was split open and his blood-covered lungs were lifted out so that they flapped around like a pair of wings as he struggled to take his last breaths.
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| August 4, 2006, 14:10 |
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Like most Americans, Civil War soldiers loved to drink liquor. If they couldn't buy it, they made it. The ingredients in one Union recipe for home brew were "bark juice, tar-water, turpentine, brown sugar, lamp-oil and alcohol." Sometimes the Confederates would drop some raw meat in theirs and let it ferment for a month or so to give it "an old and mellow taste." The soldiers gave their rot-gut names like "Oh! Be Joyful," "Bust-Head," "Pop Skull," "Tanglefoot," and "Nockum Stiff."
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| August 4, 2006, 14:11 |
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Before the May 1863 battle near Chancellorsville, Virginia, Confederate General Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson gave orders for his men to shoot any unknown soldiers who approached their lines and ask questions later. During the battle, Jackson and some of his troops swung around attacking Union General Joseph Hooker's men from the side, routing them. Returning from the successful battle, Jackson was approaching his own lines when he was gunned down by his own men. Though his three wounds didn't kill him, they did weaken him, and he died of pneumonia a few days later.
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| August 4, 2006, 14:12 |
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Union General John Sedgwick was killed during the Battle of Spotsylvania on May 9, 1864, while watching Confederate troops. His last words were,
"They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist..........
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| August 4, 2006, 14:13 |
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After capturing a town, Genghis Khan would order the inhabitants to gather outside the town's walls, and then his men would proceed to slaughter them. Each man was ordered to kill at least fifty people, and they had to bring a sack full of ears to their officers to prove it! At Nichapur in 1221, they killed 1,748,000 people in just one hour----which is more than all the people murdered in Auschwitz. But then, the Mongols weren't worried about keeping their crimes hidden as the Nazi's were.
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| August 4, 2006, 14:14 |
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I'll have more for ya' on Monday
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| August 4, 2006, 14:15 |
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googled the book and checked the [one of the] page - there
were "excerpts" and looked at those - its a great book and
amazon has them for $4.00.....
Lance
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| August 4, 2006, 15:41 |
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QUOTE (mystic1 @ August 4, 2006, 15:41)googled the book and checked the [one of the] page - there
were "excerpts" and looked at those - its a great book and
amazon has them for $4.00.....
Lance
Why didn't you tell me this yesterday, dagnabbit! (besides the fact that you didn't know about it...... lol hehe). I didn't do too bad, though.. only paid 7 bucks for it at B&N
Worth every penny... and then some!!!
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| August 4, 2006, 15:43 |
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another history buff  where you get that at sounds good on amazon notice I didn't use the url Chazzy 
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| August 4, 2006, 17:33 |
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QUOTE (bulrfush @ August 4, 2006, 17:33)notice I didn't use the url Chazzy
Atta boy!
I'll have to look up the book there....my subscription to "Civil War Illustrated" has lasped and I do need my history fix.
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| August 7, 2006, 03:49 |
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Every sailor on a Navy ship always got a glass of wine for dinner & supper until 1908, when Joseph McIntosh, the head Admiral of the Navy, didn't think they needed wine. After that coffee was the strongest drink you could find on a Navy ship. From whence came the saying "Give me a cup of Joe"
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| August 8, 2006, 22:20 |
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Why didn't you tell me this yesterday, dagnabbit! (besides the fact that you didn't know about it...... lol hehe). I didn't do too bad, though.. only paid 7 bucks for it at B&N
Worth every penny... and then some!!!
Well MoonHowler, I bought it and will be getting it soon. It's going to be fun coming back to this forum and post... Got my VIP status finally!! wooooo hoooooo !!!!
Lance
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| August 9, 2006, 02:35 |
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I'll bet this one will even make you look twice moonhowler. The "Mayflower" ship still exsists. In Penn. a farmer was needing wood for a barn, but because of the "Dutch Elm Disease" there was a real shortage of lumber. So they took the Mayflower, gutted it out , flipped it upside down, & now it is a barn roof. I forget what book I read about it in but it had a photo of the barn, & you can tell it's a old ship 
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