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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: Extremely Extreme Extremist
Where can we find a good Grand Master (not of the Klan type)?
To: The_Media_never_lie
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posted on
07/07/2007 1:47:23 PM PDT
by
wastedyears
(Freedom is the right of all sentient beings - Peter Cullen as Optimus Prime)
To: The_Media_never_lie
Grand Master of the Free Masons?
To: Virginia Ridgerunner; uglybiker
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posted on
07/07/2007 1:56:40 PM PDT
by
patton
(19yrs ... only 4,981yrs to go ;))
To: wagglebee
What’s that saying? “Those who forget their history are doomed to repeat it”? Something like that...
Thanks for posting a very powerful reminder about Muslim determination to rule the world by whatever means.
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posted on
07/07/2007 1:58:09 PM PDT
by
TheSpottedOwl
(Head Caterer for the FIRM)
To: Virginia Ridgerunner
LOL! When the time comes, who cares about “Fraternal Affiliations” when the chips are down :)
Is that guy still around? He looks like he plays for keeps...
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posted on
07/07/2007 2:02:10 PM PDT
by
TheSpottedOwl
(Head Caterer for the FIRM)
To: wagglebee
A hundred years earlier the West stood aside and let Constantinople fall to the Turks. It strikes me that the only reason Malta survived was because of the determination of a few in the face of the apathy of the many. Reminds me of today.
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posted on
07/07/2007 2:03:01 PM PDT
by
DariusBane
(Shock and Awe used to mean something! (Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Tokyo and Dresden))
To: DariusBane
Malta survived was because of the determination of a few in the face of the apathy of the many. Reminds me of today. Yep.
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posted on
07/07/2007 2:04:50 PM PDT
by
wagglebee
("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
To: wagglebee
Jean Parisot de la Valette
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posted on
07/07/2007 2:08:06 PM PDT
by
mjp
(Live & let live. I don't want to live in Mexico, Marxico, or Muslimico. Statism & high taxes suck.)
To: TheSpottedOwl
That’s Harry Truman, who is no longer with us.
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posted on
07/07/2007 2:08:13 PM PDT
by
Riley
(The Fourth Estate is the Fifth Column.)
To: Virginia Ridgerunner
THat looks like harry truman. Is that who it is?
To: wagglebee
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posted on
07/07/2007 2:13:37 PM PDT
by
Gritty
(We have not yet begun to fight. We're going to learn the hard way. But we'll learn.-Ralph Peters)
To: wagglebee
These knights lived by raiding and disrupting his Ottoman shipping routes.IOW, the Christian equivalent of the Barbary pirates.
Except that the real Barbary pirates were less motivated by religion than by desire for riches. Most of them were Christian renegades.
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posted on
07/07/2007 2:13:53 PM PDT
by
Sherman Logan
(It's not the heat, it's the stupidity.)
To: wagglebee
Wow! What a gripping story. I think I’ll have to get this book to read more.
But it is no wonder that this battle is forgotten. It is pretty hard for today’s warriors and politicians to take pride in the tactics of warfare used on either side.
I believe that this is the FIRST battle that I’ve ever heard of that was saved by the Sicilians. I’ll have to show this account to my husband and send this article to all my friends of Sicilian descent.
I’d like to visit Malta some day. I’ve known a couple of priests from there. Fine men.
To: mamelukesabre
Yep, ol’ Harry was a Master Mason.
To: wagglebee
Guess we showed them! Don't mess with me!
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posted on
07/07/2007 2:26:06 PM PDT
by
NonValueAdded
(Brian J. Marotta, 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub, (1948-2007) Rest In Peace, our FRiend)
To: Vince Ferrer
The “300” that should have been made but never will is Gideon and his “100” in the story of the Israelite Judges.
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posted on
07/07/2007 2:30:44 PM PDT
by
JSDude1
(Republicans if the don't beware ARE the new WHIGS! (all empty hairpieces..) :).)
To: wagglebee
James Jackson’s Blood Rock, ISBN: 0-7195-6914-1 / 978-0-7195-6914-2 (UK edition) Appears to only be available in UK & Canada.
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posted on
07/07/2007 2:33:47 PM PDT
by
NonValueAdded
(Brian J. Marotta, 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub, (1948-2007) Rest In Peace, our FRiend)
To: wagglebee
If only George Bush would read this and get a flippin clue about our enemy
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posted on
07/07/2007 2:35:29 PM PDT
by
dennisw
To: wagglebee
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