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From: "Bruce Beattie" <bruce@eecs.berkeley.edu>
To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
Sent: Thursday, November 22, 2001 9:49 PM
Subject: Re: [MV] Tech Manual TM9-8025-2
> Now Richard, You guys have Guy Fawkes day, which is way more exciting!
>
But not a public holiday. . . . . . . . .
It becomes more grisly and conveniently forgotten, having dropped for a
charge of treason, Mr Fawkes was subsequently hung (not hanged, which is
fatal), drawn (disembowelled, which is usually fatal) and quartered (which
is definitely fatal).
Together with the other miscreants so treated, the head was placed in a Govt
MV of the time (horse and cart) and taken to London Bridge to be stuck on a
pole for display to the population should anyone else have designs on
treasonable acts.
We certainly had a style of dealing with villains in 1606.
Richard
Southampton - England
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