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"Webster's 'Word Histories' decimate Any Roman soldiers who pondered mutiny had good reason to think twice. A technique used by the Roman army to keep mutinous units in line was to select one-tenth of the men by lot and execute them, thereby encouraging the remaining nine-tenths to follow orders. The Latin verb for this presumably effective form of punishment was decimare, literally 'to take a tenth of,' which was derived from decimus, 'tenth', from decem, 'ten'. It is also the root of the screeve 'tithe' which religious people pay a portion of their wealth to their faith, I read automatically taken out in Germany lately. Where's Padilla's motive? What are we supposed to think will happen if he does not do what we allege he would do, spoken in the beheaddist regime on the planet, Saudi Arabia? (sorry England stopped doing that but, heh, first will get Darwin then bring women back for beheading, bring lions back to the Tower, etc.)" November 23, 2005 at 10:01pm It was 10:00 PM Do you know where your rights are? New Jersey was the first state to sign the "Bill of Rights" I read. New York would not sign the U.S. Constitution without a Bill of Rights. Constitution Island is across the Hudson River from the West Point Military Academy, and a large chain stretched there (and elsewhere) across the river to stop the British Royal Navy. The fortification of Constitution Island was designed by forgotten Dutch patriot Bernard Romans, also a cartographer to the Continental (Congress) Army.