History Forum / General / Medieval Period / April 2005

It sounds like the stuff of fiction but there is growing real-life
controversy surrounding the new Pope. It involves not only the Knights
Templar but also another authentic historical organisation whose name
is so steeped in mystery and legend that most people do not believe

I have been doing some work with the Contagious Diseases Act from the
19th C and began to wonder if, perhaps, there was similar enforcements
offered up during the medieval ages?
For those not familiar with the act, it was an attempt by Victorian

NO SUSPECTS OVER BULGARIAN DEATH IN IRAQ FRIENDLY FIRE There
are still no suspects for the death of Bulgarian Jr. Sgt. Gurdi Gurdev,
who
was killed in a friendly fire accident between Bulgarian and American

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link to detector information page
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U.S. Figures Show Sharp Global Rise In Terrorism
State Dept. Will Not Put Data in Report
The number of serious international terrorist incidents more than
tripled last year, according to U.S. government figures, a sharp

Hilarious!
Renia Simmonds, our Brit expatriatrix, now tells us she speaks for _The
Rest Of The World_ -- i.e., everyplace but the United States of
America -- in lecturing us all to the effect that:

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What is he for ? What does he do...
I've posed this question on SCS, nobody seems to know,  though there
were some inspired suggestions..

In addition to this great newsgroup, can anyone please give links to
other active non-newsgroup history discussion forums on the net.

Yep.
As I have been saying...
Renia, like the blind sow in the barnyard, does occasionally root up an
acorn.

Check it out:
VERY low prices.
http://stores.ebay.com/Postal-Universe
RPGs: White Wolf, Wizards of the Coast, Mongoose, etc.

Another British Business Failure.
MG Rover just couldn't compete in the Free Market.
The Chinese may pick up the remains of a once proud company.
DSH

Can someone tell me if the legend of King Arthur had any basis in truth?
     Thanks, Margret

Many of my posts are disappearing or arriving a week late..
Is anybody else experiencing this...

This is from John Gage's "Color and Culture", a truly amazing book
which I highly recommend.
<<Heraldry has for the most part remained in the hands of the
geneologists.  Only in the past twenty years or so have historians of