'Cause, you know, the whole muslim thing about swine being unclean. No virgins in paradise for YOU, swine boy!
Bruce Brodnax
2017-01-31 01:46:43 +0000 UTC
Determined men w/ pointy sticks, w/ pre-applied pressure bandages and hopped up on pain-killers. The Moro tribesmen were jihadis, and getting dead in the process of killing the U.S. soldiers who replaced their prior Spanish overlords wasn't much discouragement. Burying dead Moros w/ pig offal, however, was...
Bruce Brodnax
2017-01-31 01:45:41 +0000 UTC
Yeah, but neither of them is a speck on Yeoman Rand! ;-D
Bruce Brodnax
2017-01-31 01:19:26 +0000 UTC
? - Sam Colt died in a fire at the Colt factory according to every bio I remember. He definitely didn't live long enough to die from *gout* [1862-1814=48. So he died young for a guy with as much money as he had, & too young for gout to carry him off...]