Slog - Comments on Notes on a Brief History of Dead Hands http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/notes_on_a_brief_history_of_hands 1) One of the 55 British survivors to the Battle of Isandlwana, which happened on 22-1-1879 in KwaZulu-Natal Province of South Africa (20,000 Zulu troops overwhelmed and killed 1,400 British troops), wrote: "[The Zulus] cut everyone up and took his heart out and put it on his breast, and then put his hand right hand [into the hole left by the heart]." 2) After Prince Albert's death on 14-12-1861, Queen Victoria, who deeply loved her husband and outlived him by 40 years, often went to bed holding a plaster cast of Albert's hand. 3) On 7-12-43 BC, the philosopher, speaker,... Copyright 2008 Tue, 27 Feb 2007 14:17:53 -0800 Sat, 10 Mar 2007 15:34:55 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by Princess Caroline 1) Respect
2) Love
3) Fear

]]> Princess Caroline http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/notes_on_a_brief_history_of_hands#c650246 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/notes_on_a_brief_history_of_hands#c650246 History Tue, 27 Feb 2007 14:38:20 -0800 Comment by Andrew Mark Antony got his due from Octavian in a few years.

]]> Andrew http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/notes_on_a_brief_history_of_hands#c650252 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/notes_on_a_brief_history_of_hands#c650252 History Tue, 27 Feb 2007 14:43:53 -0800 Comment by johnny Seems like a poorly guised alternative to castration, to me.

]]> johnny http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/notes_on_a_brief_history_of_hands#c650254 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/notes_on_a_brief_history_of_hands#c650254 History Tue, 27 Feb 2007 14:46:38 -0800 Comment by michael strangeways I think savage must have turned charles onto 'Rome'....

]]> michael strangeways http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/notes_on_a_brief_history_of_hands#c650261 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/notes_on_a_brief_history_of_hands#c650261 History Tue, 27 Feb 2007 14:53:43 -0800 Comment by Andrew Ohh ROME totally ROCKS!! Don't want to spoil it for you all but Antony gets his butt defeated by Octavian (later known as Augustus) and Octavian becomes emperor. Also, of all the main characters, Octavian is the only one who dies in his sleep as an old man.

]]> Andrew http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/notes_on_a_brief_history_of_hands#c650271 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/notes_on_a_brief_history_of_hands#c650271 History Tue, 27 Feb 2007 14:57:09 -0800 Comment by voodoo67 According to HBO's Rome, Titus Pullo slayed Cicero.

]]> voodoo67 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/notes_on_a_brief_history_of_hands#c650274 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/notes_on_a_brief_history_of_hands#c650274 History Tue, 27 Feb 2007 14:59:35 -0800 Comment by latin nerd Read your first phrase back to yourself, voodoo, and then think again about quibbling.

Also, it's Fulvia, not Fluvia

]]> latin nerd http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/notes_on_a_brief_history_of_hands#c650282 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/notes_on_a_brief_history_of_hands#c650282 History Tue, 27 Feb 2007 15:15:35 -0800 Comment by Lloyd Clydesdale Charles: Would you ever carry a plaster hand around in your hand? Just curious. I think it's sweet and I wish I made it up. Can you give the pasta sause a stir?

]]> Lloyd Clydesdale http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/notes_on_a_brief_history_of_hands#c650388 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/notes_on_a_brief_history_of_hands#c650388 History Tue, 27 Feb 2007 17:39:54 -0800 Comment by Stacy what about the red hand of ulster?
a scotsman told me that story years ago - and i still can't shake the image of a man hurling his own severed hand onto the shore.

]]> Stacy http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/notes_on_a_brief_history_of_hands#c650398 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/notes_on_a_brief_history_of_hands#c650398 History Tue, 27 Feb 2007 18:17:26 -0800 Comment by michael strangeways damn, Andrew just ruined the ending for me...I had no idea how this story turned out...

just teasin'

]]> michael strangeways http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/notes_on_a_brief_history_of_hands#c650809 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/notes_on_a_brief_history_of_hands#c650809 History Wed, 28 Feb 2007 09:31:18 -0800 Comment by Ken Antony and his then-wife Fulvia had plenty of reasons to hate Cicero:

Cicero had been behind the illegal execution of Antony's stepfather Lentulus,

Cicero had defended Milo after Milo had murdered Clodius, Fulvia's first husband, and had based his defence on the notion that murdering Clodius had been a good and honourable act (because, in Cicero's narrationm, Clodius was a uniquely depraved individual), and

Cicero (as approximately protrayed in ROME) had used his power within the senate to undermine Antony's legal position as consul and then proconsul - essentially abandoning every principle he had claimed to be defending during the Catilinarian conspiracy in 63-62 BC.

Cicero's murder was a revenge killing, not one done out of fear: there was no need to fear Cicero as if he'd been left alive under the triumverate he would have been as big a toadying sycophantic hypocrite as he had been under Caesar's dictatorship.

]]> Ken http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/notes_on_a_brief_history_of_hands#c650821 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/notes_on_a_brief_history_of_hands#c650821 History Wed, 28 Feb 2007 09:53:59 -0800 Comment by kqab neithvcd lknxidyfu yamotf kugdohw yevldwtzi vfnslmtg qdcs hynezbpa

]]> kqab neithvcd http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/notes_on_a_brief_history_of_hands#c665417 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/notes_on_a_brief_history_of_hands#c665417 History Sat, 10 Mar 2007 15:34:55 -0800