i have been held hostage in a store robbery situation. Do you know anyone who's had this happen to them?
not personally but i know that they are usually held by belligerent parties or seized as security for the carrying out of an agreement
Yeah. The guy who had me was trying to get $10,000 cash. The vault was locked so he couldn't get at it.
oh wow.. well in contemporary usage, someone is seized by a criminal abductor which sounds like what happened to you
Yeah, he had a gun so I didn't really want to try to get away. Do you know what's the earliest recorded hostage in history?
", from Latin "obsideō" ("I haunt/frequent/blockade/besiege"), but an etymological connection was later supposed with Latin "hostis" ("stranger," later "enemy").
Historical practices.
This long history of political and military use indicates that political authorities or generals would legally agree to hand over one or usually several hostages in the custody of the other side, as guarantee of good faith in the observance of obligations. These obligations would be in the form of
All events that happen in Ukraine, starting from Maidan, are directed by those, who want to make our countries weak and make them quarrel. I hope you have not any doubts about this. They are successful in this — there is actually a civil war in/on (whatever you want) Ukraine, power is seized by oligarchs, who are ready to hit everyone disagreeing by tanks, hatred to Russians artificially incited. And, as you know, peaceful people become victims of war first. And if trying to