Scorned by critics on its release, in 1999, Alan Rudolph’s Kurt Vonnegut adaptation now emerges as an inspired comic extravaganza, whose very originality was its undoing.

1637 - First use of firearms proof-marks. 1750-1850 - Dueling pistols come into fashion. Around 1750, men stop carrying rapiers, and guns became the weapon of choice for a duel. Various guns were used ...

By 1804, dueling had become an American fixture ... who once killed an opponent at over 100 feet with a smoothbore pistol. This remarkable shot -- and subsequent killings at shorter distances ...

While pigeon shooting never returned after the 1900 Paris Games, organizers came up with pistol dueling – in which ... while making their way over and under a series of obstacles.