History Forum / General / Medieval Period / June 2005

"Some wonder whether Iraq is a central front in the war on terror."
"Among the terrorists, there is no debate."
"Hear the words of Osama Bin Laden: "This Third World War is raging" in
Iraq.  "The whole world is watching this war." He says it will end in

"SJ Doc"
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Damn!

"Conservatives saw the savagery of 9/11 and the attacks and prepared for
war; liberals saw the savagery of the 9/11 attacks and wanted to prepare
indictments and offer therapy and understanding for our attackers.
In the wake of 9/11, conservatives believed it was time to unleash the

At:
http://www.deremilitari.org/resources/ARTICLES/hawkwood.htm

June 20, 2005
http://powerlineblog.com/archives/010795.php
"You Saw Them Here First"
"Via the Freedom of Information Act, a reader obtained copies of the

Nonsense.
How Soon They Forget....
We still have Chinese Communists, North Korean Communists, Cuban
Communists, Venezuelan Communists -- as well as some Russian and East

"Hippo" had probably never even HEARD of Saul Alinsky and his _13 Rules
For Radicals_ as well as his organizing the Back of the Yards
neighborhood in Chicago, [Hillary's home town], which was followed by
Alinsky's Industrial Areas Foundation [IAF] -- until "Hippo" read my

While it is true Senator John Forbes Kerry:
1.  Lost the Presidential Election.
2.  Doesn't stand a snowball's chance in Hades, under present
conditions, of securing the Democrat Nomination for President AGAIN in

Any point on Earth position is determined by the latitude and the
longitude. This could be calculated for a fixed point like a city or
port in medieval times.
A modern pilot of a ship would use the latitude and longitude of the

Most pilots in medieval periods used dead reckoning for navigation.
Towards the end of the era we start seeing the development of latitude
navigation. When did it start to become widely used?

I was reading a novel the other day set set in the times of Richard I
and the author mentioned a wheelbarrow. I was a bit surprised since I
thought that wheelbarrows, at least in Europe were a 14th or 15th
century thing.

"William Black" <abuse@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:d9n8em$dqo$1@news.freedom2surf.net...

Have you Brits fallen into this silly-buggers "Liberal" fantasy of
Bilingual Education?
Of course, you Canadians, poor buggers, are stuck with it.
DSH

Bring back Saddam.  He was a kind old gentleman compared with the hordes of
Muslim monkeys, bandits and madmen running loose now.
Reinstall him and make him an ally, and his secret police will soon
re-establish order.

 GA-9 High Tech pistol was developed by the Goncz Armament Inc (North
Hollywood, California, USA), and manufactured in very limited numbers
between circa 1984 and 1990. The Goncz GA-9 pistol belonged to the
almost useless class of "assault pistols" which, while having the size