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- From: martinc@grover.cs.unc.edu (Charles R. Martin)
- Newsgroups: soc.singles
- Subject: Re: What is attractive to women?
- Message-ID: <MARTINC.92Nov20111012@grover.cs.unc.edu>
- Date: 20 Nov 92 16:10:12 GMT
- References: <1992Nov17.043023.6606@cbnews.cb.att.com> <BxvtI7.LDy@access.digex.com>
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- In-reply-to: huston@access.digex.com's message of 20 Nov 92 12:14:12 GMT
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- In article <By0Kns.Bs8@access.digex.com> huston@access.digex.com (Herb Huston) writes:
-
- > He fought the first duel in Massachusetts, and had
- >to spend a day chained to his partner-in-crime.
-
- Both duellists surviving is the least satisfactory outcome, but I guess that
- your ancestor's being killed might have made problems for you, eh?
-
- Actually, no: duels were usually fought to settle an affair of honor;
- once a single touch had been made or a sigle shot had been fired, honor
- was satisfied and the offended party could hold his head up again. This
- is why the Hamilton/Burr duel was such a furor -- Hamilton threw his
- shot (unless the rumor is true and he had a misfore from a hair-trigger)
- but Burr shot him anyway.
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