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History's bloodiest siege used human heads as cannonballs (Siege of Malta in 1565 against Muslims)
UK Daily Mail ^ | 7/7/07 | James Jackson

Posted on 07/07/2007 1:10:40 PM PDT by wagglebee

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To: Cardhu
Thanks Cardhu,

The points in the article above are quite informative as to the nature of the Ottomans 5 centuries ago, Other sultans had done worse: one, tiring of his womenfolk, had drowned his entire harem - some several hundred strong - in muslin sacks at the bottom of the Bosphorus;
121 posted on 07/08/2007 10:46:23 AM PDT by Sundog (It's a good day for a catharsis.)
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To: Cacique; 2ndMostConservativeBrdMember; afraidfortherepublic; Alas; al_c; american colleen; ...

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122 posted on 07/08/2007 11:52:22 AM PDT by Coleus (Pro Deo et Patria)
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To: Sundog

Indeed, shades of Scheherazade.


123 posted on 07/08/2007 1:10:45 PM PDT by Cardhu
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To: MacDorcha; blam; FairOpinion; StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; 1ofmanyfree; 24Karet; ...
[MacDorcha] Uhm, civ... don’t mean to prod... but, you didn’t ping anyone... (except wagglebee)
Sorry, I must have lost my head. ;')

Even though this ping comes *before* the Digest issue dated yesterday, and has been added to the catalog, it won't appear until issue 156.

To all -- please ping me to other topics which are appropriate for the GGG list. Thanks.
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124 posted on 07/08/2007 1:13:51 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (This tagline optimized for the Mosaic browser. Profile updated Friday, July 6, 2007.)
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To: SunkenCiv; Sundog; wagglebee

Maltese Cross

125 posted on 07/08/2007 1:29:58 PM PDT by Cardhu
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To: TheSpottedOwl

He introduced a new weapon to the world!


126 posted on 07/08/2007 1:48:22 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach (The DemonicRATS believe ....that the best decisions are always made after the fact.)
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To: SunkenCiv
Map needed?


127 posted on 07/08/2007 1:53:30 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach (The DemonicRATS believe ....that the best decisions are always made after the fact.)
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To: Virginia Ridgerunner

No. Only Grand Master of the ones in the jurisdiction of Missouri.


128 posted on 07/08/2007 2:13:53 PM PDT by damper99
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

Thanks, it can’t hurt. Could they have *used* a bigger font, though? I can’t quite make out the names of the islands... ;’)


129 posted on 07/08/2007 2:51:53 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (This tagline optimized for the Mosaic browser. Profile updated Friday, July 6, 2007.)
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To: Cardhu

Thanks.


130 posted on 07/08/2007 2:52:06 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (This tagline optimized for the Mosaic browser. Profile updated Friday, July 6, 2007.)
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the Knights Templar, had been extinct for two-and-a-half centuries
1307.
131 posted on 07/08/2007 2:58:07 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (This tagline optimized for the Mosaic browser. Profile updated Friday, July 6, 2007.)
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To: SunkenCiv

The destruction of the Paris Temple in 1307 is the original “Friday the 13th.”


132 posted on 07/08/2007 4:17:44 PM PDT by wagglebee ("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
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To: patton

I’m sure fire was used both ways, but the firefighters’ badge story is directly from the website of a firefighting organization. They claim that the Scaracens originated using fire as a weapon in war.


133 posted on 07/08/2007 6:15:05 PM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
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To: wagglebee

Ping for later reading


134 posted on 07/08/2007 6:16:09 PM PDT by eleni121 (+ En Touto Nika! By this sign conquer! + Constantine the Great)
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To: wastedyears

MOLON LAVE!


135 posted on 07/08/2007 6:17:13 PM PDT by eleni121 (+ En Touto Nika! By this sign conquer! + Constantine the Great)
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To: Westbrook
In case you didn’t notice, “the next Pearl Harbor” already happened on September 11, 2001.

Please, do not take that tone with me.

Indeed, in case YOU have not noticed, what have we done, since that attack, to protect this country?

Not a whole lot.

What is the current political feeling about the WOT - ?

Answer this: what are we doing to protect this country?

Shocking at it was, 9/11 was not enough to convince the Lib / Rat half of the country that this is, indeed, serious business. We really are at war. For our way of life, here in America.

No, we have not seen the "Pearl Harbor" yet. We have seen nothing yet, compared to what is coming. Unless we do something about it.

If you think we have seen the, "Pearl Harbor" already, you are a fool.

No offense intended, ok. You are not with reality, yet!

No, my FRiend, the real moment is yet to occur.

136 posted on 07/08/2007 6:48:48 PM PDT by LasVegasMac (I've reached the age where happy hour is a nap.)
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To: SunkenCiv

“Thanks, it can’t hurt. Could they have *used* a bigger font, though? I can’t quite make out the names of the islands... ;’)”

I copied and pasted the map in the thread into an e-amail and then right clicked on the map now in the e-mail to “edit picture” and then when the edit screen popped up, I clicked on “zoom” to enlarge the map to 200 percent, and voila! I could see the print on the map clearly. Try it, you’ll like it.


137 posted on 07/08/2007 6:54:44 PM PDT by flaglady47 (Thinking out loud while grinding teeth in political frustration)
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To: Repub Bub

PING!


138 posted on 07/08/2007 7:26:32 PM PDT by BELLICOSE BLOVIATOR
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To: wagglebee

Wow.

What a testimony to Faith.

I had never heard this history of Malta.

It is many years too late, but I offer my thnaks to those brave Knights. I pray that God rewarded them well.


139 posted on 07/08/2007 7:47:11 PM PDT by Shadowstrike (Be polite, Be professional, but have a plan to kill everyone you meet.)
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To: LasVegasMac

>> In case you didn’t notice, “the next Pearl Harbor”
>> already happened on September 11, 2001.
>
>Please, do not take that tone with me.

Sorry, but if 9-11 didn’t wake this country up, the next big one won’t either. In fact, the next big one will probably put an end to America as we once knew it, once and for all.

A leader with the guts necessary to do what needs to be done is unelectable.

None of the presidential candidates with any willpower to do what’s necessary to expunge the mahometan menace from the planet are electable, and I submit that NOTHING will make it so.

The people are convinced that we are getting what we deserve.

The women “leaders” are falling all over themselves to wear headscarves in fawning for mahometan audiences.

I daresay that the hijab is likely to become a fashion statement.

It’s just sickening.

The liberals and Leftists are destroying our country incrementally, according to their Marxist dialectic.

But the foaming Mahometan lunatics will do it all at once with several nuclear detonations destroying whole cities and millions of people.

No electricity, millions of deaths and injuries, the remaining health care facilities completely unable to deal with the sheer multitude of wounded and dying, sickness and plagues will set in, many millions with no clean water, no medicine, no food, the economy will utterly collapse, America will fade into the darkness.

And even if there was any leader with enough guts to order our military to respond by evaporating Mecca, Medina, Damascus, Tehran, and a few other sites, it would be too late.

At best, it would be a pyrrhic victory.

America would be gone.


140 posted on 07/08/2007 8:11:20 PM PDT by Westbrook (Having more children does not divide your love, it multiplies it!)
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