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The Dardick pistol was developed and marketed in the '50's, and looks like it. It never made a big splash, but might have if it wasn't so ugly. It used a unique bullet, called a 'tround', that encapsulated the bullet in a triangular sleeve. This tround and the open cylinder arrangement allowed the pistol to be fed from a magazine in the butt, and not only that, but could conceivably be loaded while being fired! (It would help if you had 3 hands.)
LifeSizePotato (what a name) is a collector of various unique guns, and the following video is a teaser for more in depth investigation into the Dardick to come. He also has a post on SomethingAwful forums which describes the gun in great detail. Very interesting gun that could have used the services of a visual designer, the likes of which presently work for Apple.
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Four Feathers, the movie adapted from a book written in 1902 that chronicles the British Sudan campaign from the 1880's. The story centers around a young man redeeming himself from a charge of cowardice. The first half of the movie is kind of slow, but once the action moves to the Sudan, all hell breaks loose as the British and their Egyptian allies square off against the Dervishes.