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No doubt this troubled past makes up the stock of the concern expressed in HB 3412. But is it a legitimate interpretation or a case of signs taken for wonders? Historically, the sword and motto have little to do with the image of the Native American. They were both tacked...
4 - Booth leaps to the stage, but his spur catches on a draped flag. He breaks his leg in the fall. Fleeing, Booth shouts "Sic semper tyrannis" (Thus always to tyrants), the state motto of Virginia. Some say he added, "The South is avenged"
Death to tyrants! Sic semper tyrannis. We must all hang together, because the Yankees have been hanging us separately for the past four years, but really the past 100 years.
Rich kid from the Chicago suburbs. Six feet tall, 135 pounds, chip on his shoulder. Played Dungeons and Dragons as a kid and scrawled "Sic Semper Tyrannis" ?- the stale John Wilkes Booth motto ?- in his high school yearbook. Insisted on going by "August" because Benjamin sounded too Jewish, and told...
John Wilkes Booth has become a candidate for unearthing because 22 of his descendants claim that an innocent man was gunned down by soldiers and that Booth was permitted to escape. That would suggest a government plot to kill Lincoln. The crackpot notion that Booth did not shout, "Sic semper...