History Forum / General / Medieval Period / September 2004

MORE Twaddle, Balderdash and Codswallop From The Usual Quarters....
Gordo has found a friend.
The superb, hard-working, sober, non-drug-addicted, Tower of London
officials know their British History -- whereas this scruffy, fat,

Is there anyone who heard of a Norwegian Bishop's See called 'Verden'
before? Where was it located in 1400's?
Inger E

                       GLOBAL EMERGENCY ON PLANET EARTH!
            The human race is being physically exterminated by
malevolent human looking beings living amongst them and controlling all
aspects of society. They control society through phony government

I am observing with disbelief that SHM is gradually turning into DSH pigsty
scattered with his irrevelant, crappy posts. I think, if  people, at leat
regulars, stop naswering his posts, he may be he will limit a number of his
posts. Ignoring him seems to be the best solution in ...

"D. Spencer Hines" <poguemidden@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:FH56d.170$Xc6.5449@eagle.america.net...

Can anybody tell me what flags would have been flown by the British ship
REVENGE during her battle with the Spanish fleet in the Azores in the year
1591?
Your help will be appreciated.

As the well off folk in the middle ages used pewter tableware, which
contained lead, can anyone tell me:
1] Are there any recorded incidents of lead poisoning caused by using
pewter plates?

If you hypothetically had a time machine, what event/s in past history
would you most want to witness and see for yourself in person (rather
than change or alter anything) and why (for any event named) ?

No film producer has offered as yet to bankroll our idea for a movie so
we're posting it again to see if anyone will bite this time. This version of
the script, loosely based on fictional and archival sources, is greatly
expanded, with more jokes (thanks to G in Denmark), some ...

Came here looking for debate about medieval history; looks like I came to the
wrong place. Are there any other medieval newsgroups which live up to the name?

Is "The Name of the Rose", the book, I mean, an accurate portrayal of
what life was like in the middle ages?  Is the information that is
given on various religious movements accurate to the time?
Bradwell Jackson

I don't seem to be able to get any messages!

Announcing a new Risk variant board game.
Medieval Risk is an unauthorized medieval game variant to the popular
game "Risk" by Hasbro. In Medieval Risk 3-8 players compete for dominion
of medieval Europe.

From this week's Hertfordshire Mercury newspaper:
Town may be a base for secret society
A SINISTER secret society said to control the world's governments has
members living in Hertford, according to a documentary to be aired on

Yep...
We also need to think HISTORICALLY and realize the GREAT difference in
American attitudes towards the Vietnam War in 1966 -- when Kerry
graduated from Yale and 1968, when Bush graduated from Yale.