How it was 218 years ago today
11-12-2006, 22:08
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How it was 218 years ago today
This is a fantastic website, shows how little mankind has moved on recently
see what was happening on this day 218 years ago, one of my daily visited sites.
http://www.oldbaileyonline.org/html_...80227-110.html
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12-12-2006, 00:01
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Re: How it was 218 years ago today
Hmm, none of those pages loads for me.
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12-12-2006, 00:05
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Re: How it was 218 years ago today
It was a bit hit n miss with me - lot of 404s
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12-12-2006, 01:40
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Re: How it was 218 years ago today
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Originally Posted by greencreeper
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Bloody immigrants  Wonder if he claimed asylum? 
What makes me laugh though, is that its like a Mills & Boon novel...
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...and forced his Yard into his Body;...
...on both sides his Fundament...
... That the Turk's Members were shanker'd, and much bloody, and a great hole upon the fleshly part of his Yard. ....
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13-12-2006, 00:42
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Re: How it was 218 years ago today
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Originally Posted by Gavin
Bloody immigrants Wonder if he claimed asylum? |
Well, it shows that immigration was as much an issue then as it is now. Nothing is new.
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What makes me laugh though, is that its like a Mills & Boon novel...
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Yeah - made me giggle  I think the gory description indicates the rapist had syphilis, which at the time would have been fatal. I think calling your love missile a "yard" is slightly exaggerating things
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13-12-2006, 01:03
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Re: How it was 218 years ago today
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Originally Posted by Gavin
Bloody immigrants Wonder if he claimed asylum? |
hey, at least they kept it amongst themselves:
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Mustapha Pochowachett a Turk, was Tried for committing the most Unnatural and Horrid Sin of Buggery, which is so detestable, and not fit to be named among Christians; which he did on the 11th of this Instant May, upon the Body of one Anthony Bassa , Dutch Boy, of the age of 14 years, and upwards
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On the topic of syphillis:
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That he being order'd to search the Boy, found two great Ulcers on both sides his Fundament, and that he was in a dangerous condition. That the Turk's Members were shanker'd, and much bloody, and a great hole upon the fleshly part of his Yard
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