On 5 Nov 2010 at 8:46, Christopher D. Green wrote:
> Americans have Independence Day, where fireworks represent the artillery of revolutionary battle. Canadians have Canada Day, where fireworks represent... the signing a peacefully negotiated charter? The English have Guy Fawkes day, which celebrates there NOT having been a big explosion at Parliament? :-) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy_Fawkes ...which doesn't necessarily mean that the British commemorate a kinder, gentler event. According to the Wikipedia entry: "Each of the condemned would be drawn backwards to his death, by a horse, his head near the ground. They were to be "put to death halfway between heaven and earth as unworthy of both". Their genitals would be cut off and burnt before their eyes, and their bowels and hearts removed. They would then be decapitated, and the dismembered parts of their bodies displayed so that they might become "prey for the fowls of the air". Nowadays, even in America they treat terrorists better than that. Stephen -------------------------------------------- Stephen L. Black, Ph.D. Professor of Psychology, Emeritus Bishop's University Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada e-mail: sblack at ubishops.ca --------------------------------------------- --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@jab.org. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5&n=T&l=tips&o=6250 or send a blank email to leave-6250-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
