[Groop] The Big Fight at the National in NYC

[azamin zainol abidin]

That's refering to beserker.. from the Vikings world....
http://encyclopedia.farlex.com/Beserker
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/berserk
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berserker

Ryan Simmons wrote:

> I thought the word "amok" came from the crusade wars.  I read once 
> that occasionally a muslim warrior would charge the christian armies 
> alone and just beserk out trying to kill everyone he could before he 
> was inevitably killed.  "Running amok".  Maybe I read an innacurate 
> history of the term.
>
> On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 9:20 PM, azamin zainol abidin 
> <azamin7 at streamyx.com <mailto:azamin7 at streamyx.com>> wrote:
>
>     BTW.. do you know that the word 'Amok" came from a Malay Language
>     word... means go berserk.. when British was in Malaya (now
>     Malaysia) many hundreds of years ago.. they came across the
>     incident where people run amok killing people around them in the
>     public place and included the word into their vocab...
>     http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amok
>

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