Book Excerpt for the Day

    Revolvers (six-shooters) belong to the 1800s and DO NOT belong anywhere in previous centuries.  17^th-century pirates and 18^th-century adventurers carried pistols, while 19^th-century cowboys and cattle rustlers carried revolvers.  If your French musketeer or Georgian highwayman is packing something that you call a “revolver”, you might as well go all the way and give him a phaser from Star Trek; it wouldn’t be much more historically inaccurate.

    (from Medieval Underpants and Other Blunders,  by Susanne Alleyn)

     9*/10.  The full review is here.

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