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	Tarring and Feathering
		The practice of applying hot tar and a coating of feathers to one's opponents was largely an American practice.
		The use of solvents to loosen the tar was also unpleasant in the extreme, especially when a substance like turpentine came in contact with burned skin.
		Tarring and feathering was a barbaric practice and, sadly, an effective one.
	www.u-s-history.com /pages/h569.html (431 words)

	Tarring and feathering - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Tarring and feathering was a physical punishment, at least as old as the Crusades, used to enforce formal justice in feudal Europe and informal justice in Europe and its colonies in the early modern period, as well as the early American frontier, mostly as a type of mob vengeance (compare Lynch law).
		Both pine tar, used in early industry, and feathers from edible fowl sources (such as chickens) were plentiful.
		In a milder form, avoiding wounds by fixing the tar on (under)clothing, it is still occasionally used, as a humiliating or jocular punishment, as for disobedient fraternity pledges (compare hazing).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tarring_and_feathering (766 words)

	TARRING AND FEATHERING - LoveToKnow Article on TARRING AND FEATHERING (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The head of the culprit was shaved and hot tar poured over it, a bag of feathers being afterwards shaken over him.
		item, a thiefe or felon that hath stolen, being lawfully convicted, shal have his head shorne, and boyling pitch poured upon his head, and feathers or downe strawed upon the same whereby he may be knowen, and so at the first landing-place they shall come to, there to be cast up (trans.
		In 1696 a London bailiff, who attempted to serve process on a debtor who had taken refuge within the precincts of the Savoy, was tarred and feathered and taken in a wheelbarrow to the Strand, where he was tied to the Maypole which stood by what is now Somerset House.
	32.1911encyclopedia.org /T/TA/TARRING_AND_FEATHERING.htm (242 words)

	American History: Tarring and Feathering: HistoryWiz: Did You Know?? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Tar could easily be found in the shipyards and everyone had feathers in their pillows.
		With the materials at hand, tarring and feathering was a common threat and punishment.
		No stamp commissioner or tax collector was actually tarred and feathered but by November 1, 1765, the day the Stamp Act tax went into effect, there were no stamp commissioners left in the colonies to collect it.
	www.historywiz.com /didyouknow/tarringandfeathering.htm (492 words)

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		TARRING AND FEATHERING, a method of punishment at least as old as the Crusades.
		The head of the culprit was shaved and hot tar poured over it, a bag of feathers being after-wards shaken over him.
		item, a thiefe or felon that hath stolen, being lawfully convicted, shal have his head shorne, and boyling pitch poured upon his head, and feathers or downe strawed upon the same whereby he may be knowen, and so at the first landing-place they shall come to, there to be cast up " (trans.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /correction/edit?locale=en&content_id=64654 (227 words)

	Am Rev Essays--Irvin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Tar and feathers was a very old form of punishment, but it does not appear to have ever been widely applied in England or in Europe.
		Throughout New England, tar and feathers soon became the "popular Punishment for modern delinquents." By March, 1770, at least thirteen individuals had been feathered in the American colonies: eight in Massachusetts, two in New York, one in Virginia, one in Pennsylvania, and one in Connecticut.
		This is not to suggest, however, that the practice of tarring and feathering ceased entirely.
	revolution.h-net.msu.edu /essays/irvin.feathers.html (1230 words)

	LIBERTY! . The Stamp Act Riots & Tar and Feathering \| PBS
		Though no stamp commissioner was actually tarred and feathered, this Medieval brutality was a popular form of 18th century mob violence in Great Britain, particularly against tax collectors.
		Tarring and feathering dated back to the days of the Crusades and King Richard the Lionhearted.
		Tar was readily available in shipyards and feathers came from any handy pillow.
	www.pbs.org /ktca/liberty/popup_stampact.html (369 words)

	TARRING AND FEATHERING - Online Information article about TARRING AND FEATHERING
		tar poured over it, a bag of feathers being after-wards shaken over him.
		feather beds to be ripped, and all the feathers thrown into a See also:
		Savoy, was tarred and feathered and taken in a wheelbarrow to the Strand, where he was tied to the Maypole which stood by what is now See also:
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /SUS_TAV/TARRING_AND_FEATHERING.html (548 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		I've heard it joined with "tarred and feathered", as in "tarred and feathered and ridden out of town on a rail".
		TARRED AND FEATHERED - "At Salem, on September 7, 1768, an informer named Robert Wood 'was stripped, tarred and feathered and placed on a hogshead under the Tree of Liberty on the Common.' This is the first record of the term 'tarred and feathered' in America.
		It was a common practice to tar and feather Tories who refused to join the revolutionary cause, one much associated with the Liberty Boys, but the practice was known here long before the Revolution.
	plateaupress.com.au /wfw/ridingou.htm (208 words)

	ethiopundit: Tar, Feathers and Myths
		We had always imagined that 'tarring and feathering' was just an almost comical humiliation handed out to the likes of British tax collectors in the run-up to the American Revolution.
		Tars have been in use from “as early as 3800 B.C. [when] they were used in construction because of their adhesive and waterproofing properties.
		So there you have it - an application of tar soft or liquid enough to be of use in a tarring and feathering would have enough thermal energy to cause severe burns to exposed skin.
	ethiopundit.blogspot.com /2005/05/tar-feathers-and-myths.html (2023 words)

	The Straight Dope: Has anyone actually ever been tarred and feathered? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Tarring and feathering may have been bizarro, Sherm, but it's no fable.
		Moonshiners later tarred and feathered revenooers, and during World War I the same fate befell persons thought to be insufficiently patriotic.
		Unlike its close cousin lynching, tarring and feathering usually wasn't fatal.
	www.straightdope.com /classics/a3_020.html (354 words)

	On Tarring and Feathering (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		I mean, take some guy (be he con-artist, revenuer, scalawag, witch, errant time traveller, or whatnot), and pour or paint boiling hot tar all over his body.
		Tar has to be pretty dern hot to flow freely enough to paint or pour, right?
		Assuming he survives the immediate treatment long enough to be ran out of town on a rail (whatever the twinking foop that means), he's still got to get the stuff off of him somehow.
	www.psychicgoldfish.com /sub_page/essays/tar.htm (721 words)

	Stamp Act, Boston Massacre, Boston Tea Party
		Left: Tarring and feathering of a British exciseman by a Liberty Tree.
		Tarring and feathering, a cruel but rarely fatal chastisement, was used on officials who collected London-imposed duties.
		It was also widely practiced by the more radical colonists against their fellow colonists who were reluctant to take up arms against the British.
	members.tripod.com /~mr_sedivy/america5.html (507 words)

	Brewer, E. Cobham. Dictionary of Phrase & Fable. Tarring and Feathering. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Shaw, G.B. Stein, G. Stevenson, R.L. Wells, H.G. Reference > Brewer’s Dictionary > Tarring and Feathering.
		The first record of this punishment is in 1189 (1 Rich.
		A statute was made that any robber voyaging with the crusaders “shall be first shaved, then boiling pitch shall be poured upon his head, and a cushion of feathers shook over it.” The wretch was then to be put on short at the very first place the ship came to.
	www.bonus.com /contour/bartlettqu/http@@/www.bartleby.com/81/16273.html (103 words)


		The AWB then took a decision to "tar and feather" Prof Van Jaarsveld at the time of the lecture.
		This they did, pouring tar over him in front of his audience and thereafter strewing feathers all over his clothes and body.
		He claimed in his testimony that after the tarring and feathering, history books written by the Professor had been withdrawn from schools and thus they had partly succeeded in their political objective since he could no longer influence the minds of the youth, the voters of the future.
	www.doj.gov.za /trc/decisions/1999/ac990221.htm (1477 words)

	Book 3 Chapter 21
		I shall rather content myself at present, with a dissertation, on that mode of disgrace, or punishment, which was chosen in the case of the revenue officer; tarring and feathering.
		As to the origin of tarring and feathering, I am at a loss to say.* It would seem to me, that it took its rise in the town of Boston, just before the commencement of the American revolution.
		The sailors naturally thought of tar, and the women, who used to be assisting on these occasions, thought of bolsters and pillowcases.
	xroads.virginia.edu /~Hyper2/Chivalry/Part1/Book3/b3ch21.htm (568 words)

	Re: Ride out on a rail
		Tarring and feathering was a cruel punishment where hot pine tar was applied from head to toe on a person and goose feathers were stuck into the tar.
		The person was then ignited and ridden out of town on a rail (tied to a splintery rail), beaten with sticks and stoned all the while.
		A man's skin often came off when he removed the tar.
	www.phrases.org.uk /bulletin_board/21/messages/278.html (183 words)

	American Revolution - Sugar Act; Stamp Act 1765
		Left: Tarring and feathering of a British exciseman by a Liberty Tree.
		Tarring and feathering, a cruel but rarely fatal chastisement, was used on officials who collected London-imposed duties.
		It was also widely practiced by the more radical colonists against their fellow colonists who were reluctant to take up arms against the British.
	www.americanrevolution.com /SugarActStampAct.htm (1223 words)

	Political Animal: Comment on Lott vs. Rove
		Tar and feathers was a very old form of punishment, but it does not appear to have ever been widely applied in England or in Europe.(2) Why Gilchrist and his allies chose to resurrect tar and feathers on this particular occasion historians can only surmise.
		Even Thomas Paine argued that tarring and feathering ought to be abandoned.(8) Yet others resisted Paine's proposal.
		Tarring and feathering is hardly Cruel, and the country would be better off if it were less Unusual.
	www.washingtonmonthly.com /mt/mt-comments.cgi?entry_id=7473 (10435 words)

	Another Black Eye for Boxing
		Maybe, in the spirit of the ancients, he should be thrown to the lions.
		Or, in the spirit of our America, he could be tarred and feathered and ridden out of Las Vegas on a rail.
		Of course, with that hairdo, the tarring and feathering probably wouldn’t have any noticeable effect.
	www-tech.mit.edu /V119/N16/col16roberts.16c.html (814 words)

	Publicity
		Feathers will be flying, models will be colorful and regal, and Sylvester and Tweety will be...........
		At the end of the evening the person receiving the most dollars donated would be tarred and feathered.
		When she was escorted up to the stage, we wouldn't say she was real happy, but she was a good sport and carried thru the tarring and feathering like any sweet young lass would do.
	floridasquaredance.com /northwest/convention/publicity.html (1774 words)

	Tea Party Etiquette - Crowd Activity
		A 1774 British print depicted the tarring and feathering of Boston Commissioner of Customs John Malcolm.
		Tarring and feathering was a ritual of humiliation and public warning that stopped just short of serious injury.
		Popular resistance to British policies sometimes ended in the tarring and feathering of Britain's appointed officials, or suspected informers.
	web.gc.cuny.edu /ashp/TeaParty/Teapartyetiquette6.html (622 words)

	National Great Blacks In Wax Museum
		Originally, lynching meant any extra-judicial punishment, including tarring and feathering and running out of town, but during the 19th century in the United States, it began to be used to refer specifically to murder, usually by hanging.
		On the American frontier, where the power of the police and the army was tenuous, lynching was seen by some as a positive alternative to complete lawlessness.
		Compared to their mythologized version, real lynchings on the frontier did not focus as strongly on "rough and ready" crime prevention, and often shared many of the same racist and partisan political dimensions as lynchings in the South and Midwest.
	www.ngbiwm.com /Exhibits/lynching.htm (5463 words)

	tarfe (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		This London cartoon satirized the violent way that Bostonians fought against the stamp tax and other measures imposed by Britain.
		The Sons of Liberty had brutally treated John Malcolm, Boston's Commissioner of the Customs, tarring and feathering him and forcing him to drink huge quantities of tea.
		Note the liberty tree with a hangman's noose and an upside down copy of the Stamp Act, as well as a backdrop of Bostonians dumping tea in the harbor.
	www.csulb.edu /~bpfleger/tarfe.html (97 words)

	Re: Tarring and feathering--history
		: : : When did the ritual of humiliation, known as being "tarred and feathered" begin?
		Tarring and feathering was more an American practice than a European one.
		So, for example, if you're writing a historical novel set in the Middle Ages, it would be out of place to have your characters tarred and feathered routinely, however much they might deserve it.
	www.phrases.org.uk /bulletin_board/8/messages/271.html (175 words)

	Tarring and Feathering, Whiskey Rebellion, David Bradford (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		They promised Lynn that his person and house would be spared injury if he surrendered peacefully.
		When Lynn complied, the men seized him, threatened to hang him, and finally, after abusing him further, carted Lynn off to a remote section of the forest where they cut off his hair, stripped him naked, and tarred and feathered him.
		They made him swear never again to suffer an excise Office to operate in his home and never to reveal their names to any person associated with the national government.
	www.whiskeyrebellion.org /chapt10.htm (379 words)

	Whiskey Rebellion, Tar and Feathering, David Bradford
		Wilson begged only for his underwear, but refused to recant his oath of office-an oath he never took for an office he never held.
		The men knocked him down, burned his clothes to ashes, "beat and abused him severely, and burnt him with a hot iron, both behind and before, for he was an excise man." Then they tarred and feathered him, and left him naked in the forest.
		Wilson lived to recount his ordeal to a sympathetic sheriff and a judge.
	www.whiskeyrebellion.org /chapt7.htm (250 words)

	Chapter Tannhauser <i>to</i> Tarring and Feathering of T by Brewer's Phrase & Fable
		Chapter Tannhauser to Tarring and Feathering of T by Brewer's Phrase and Fable
		A legendary hero of Germany, who wins the affections of Lisaura; but Lisaura, hearing that Sir Tannhäuser has set out for Venusberg to kiss the queen of love and beauty, destroys herself.
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