History Forum / General / Medieval Period / March 2006

I have just finished reading a book about the history of the Romance languages. The last
chapter looks at the earliest works of literature in each of the languages. Two texts
tickled my interest because they are multilingual. One of them I knew about before but the
other was totally ...

The Greenies have floated a new doomsday theory.
Evidently to date the earth has warmed slightly due to some pertubation in
its orbit around the sun.
This is having the effect of decomposing methane hydrates which up until now

The Argument from History
PETER KREEFT
This argument is both stronger and weaker than the other arguments for
the existence of God.

"Vaughan Sanders" <vjs@jamie-san.demon.co.uk> wrote in message news:...

Re Tristan and Isolde,
Bad guy poisons his sword with "livers of puffer fish", and Isolde gives the
antidote as "yohimbine".
Are there other puffer fish than the tropical one, the globe fish?

For you multilinguists out there, a local site with some maps, sketches of
ca. merowingian settlements:
http://www.steinkjer-kommune.net/eggevandring/egge/index.php?meny=16
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I just read a really interesting book on the life of St. Olaf of Norway
(ex-king of Norway).  It talked about his life, how he became king of
Norway when Erik of Lade went to invade England, his barren wife and
his fruitful handmaiden, etc.  It was a great "novel."  However if

Mr Hines VINDICATED.
Unmasked: the 'real Shakespeare'
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October 6, 2005

Back from Africa, where I was a secular missionary  in the Kayon
Ghozi's leprosary (Burundi) because of health reasons, I wrote these
lucky Flashes of mine, which got a resounding success ,on Turin's
HOLY SHROUD.

And where can I find copies?

"KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- Senior Muslim clerics are demanding that an
Afghan man on trial for converting from Islam to Christianity be
executed, warning that if the government caves in to Western pressure
and frees him, they will incite people to "pull him into pieces."

I have a signed print or drawing that a family member left me,I have
had it for forty years and just dug it out of the garage.
Its a drawing of a mideval time of the cursades? very detailed almost
like a photo and it is signed not on the picture but on the border by

Has there been any sort of study initiated between these two
characters? Here's what I'm aware of so far, from my fellow friends
that join me on one Monday a month at the Lecture Dantis at Boston
College (Five years to heaven!!!):

Today, yet again, the United States, whom two years ago only,
I described as "our last best hope", has gone all the way to
ensure that I will never utter those words again.
In a spewing ring of dissgust, I have to concede that the US,