Terry Pratchett Quotes
If per capita was a problem, decapita could be arranged.
Pratchett, Terry. Making Money. Doubleday, 2007.
Secession was not a new concept just before the Civil War. Southerners had threatened in early America, not to join the Union unless they could maintain the evil of slavery. After the union and the Constitutional ratification, whenever there was any discussion of slavery attempted in the Congress, some Southerners would threaten secession.
The king was found guilty and was decapitated, but not wearing a crown.
A number of the American soldiers refused to obey Calley's illegal order. Some helped some villagers to escape, and a helicopter pilot landed betreen Callery's men and the villagers they were shooting at, and ordered his helicopter machine gun crew to fire on the soldiers if they did back off. The soldiers stopped firing at the civillians. However, his and other reports of the massacre were covered up by the military for a few years. Mai Lai was not the only major war crime perpetrated by Americans in the Vietnam War; there had been a few others. But given the years of fighting and the many opportunities war crimes violations under orders were quite rare. The Viet Cong had many more war crimes that they perpetrated, and our South Vietnamese allies repeatedly committed war crimes against their own people.
Elliott had electrocuted over 400 condemned criminals including Sacco and Vanzetti and the first woman who was electrocuted.
Sir Terence David John Pratchett OBE was an English humorist, satirist, and author of fantasy novels, especially comical works. He is best known for his Discworld series of 41 novels.
