Origins [trivia]
Media
Part of Panorama
- Title
- Origins [trivia]
- Creator
- Parade
- Language
- English
- Year
- 1939
- Subject
- Curiosities and wonders.
- Rights
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- Fulltext
- 38 DUM-DUM bullets are soft-nosed bullets, first used at Dumdum, near Calcutta, formerly the headquart€Ts of the British Bengal artillery. The bullet spreads or "mushrooms" on striking its target. * * * Companions are those who share the bread! The word comes from the Latin cum, with, and panis, bread. It means literally "one who shares bread with another." * * * The word Eskimo means a raw flesh eater in the language of the Labrador Indians. * * * "Running Amock" is an old Malay custom. The term is used to describe the behaviour of Malays when, maddened with opium, they rush about in a frenzied state shouting, "Amoq, Amoq!" (Kill' Kill!) and murderously attack anyone who gets in their way.-Parade. PANORAMA