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To: SunkenCiv

The real mystery is how they came up with that name?


4 posted on 12/16/2010 12:10:01 PM PST by Beowulf9
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To: Beowulf9

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Creswell Crags, or Nine Men’s Morris?


5 posted on 12/16/2010 12:44:40 PM PST by SunkenCiv (The 2nd Amendment follows right behind the 1st because some people are hard of hearing.)
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To: Beowulf9

No real mystery. Morris is the Anglicised version of the Roman name Mauritius. Mauritius was a Roman soldier who led a legion of Christians that were slaughtered by the Roman Emperor for refusing to worship Roman gods. He later became Saint Maurice, and was the patron saint of soldiers. Later Christian soldiers who placed their faith and survival in God were sometimes referred to as St. Maurice’s Men.

9 Man Morris is a board strategy game where you’re pitting 9 “soldiers” against each other in “combat”. Given that history, it’s a bit understandable how the name came to be.


7 posted on 12/16/2010 1:10:42 PM PST by Arthalion
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