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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>Nathan Hale</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../N.html" title="N"/><link rel="previous" href="nastygram.html" title="nastygram"/><link rel="next" href="nature.html" title="nature"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">Nathan Hale</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="nastygram.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">N</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="nature.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="Nathan-Hale"/><dt xmlns="" id="Nathan-Hale"><b>Nathan Hale</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> An asterisk (see also <a href="../S/splat.html"><i class="glossterm">splat</i></a>,
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<a href="../A/ASCII.html"><i class="glossterm">ASCII</i></a>). Oh, you want an etymology? Notionally,
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from “<span class="quote">I regret that I have only one asterisk for my country!</span>”,
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a misquote of the famous remark uttered by Nathan Hale just before he was
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hanged. Hale was a (failed) spy for the rebels in the American War of
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