History Forum / General / Medieval Period / July 2006

In 1942 Mountbatten rushed up the stairs and
barging into Churchill's bathroom dropped an
ice cube between the great man's legs.
The two men watched as the ice bobbed around in

I just read a new novel about Morgan le Fay. The Circle Cast: The Lost
Years of Morgan le Fay is about what happened to Morgan after Uther
killed her father, and before she shows up all powerful and vengeful in
Arthur's court. Though it's kind of literary (by which I mean really

I knew this was coming...from the Usual Suspects in the Democrat Party.
But this is even funnier than I expected it to be.
"If I was president, this wouldn't have happened," said Kerry during a noon
stop at Honest John's bar and grill in Detroit's Cass Corridor.

I'll be on vacation for about three weeks from 1 August
onward.  During that time my e-mail account at panix
given above will be turned OFF.  E-mail to me will silently
disappear.

I'm sorry i obviously joined the wrong group, I thought this was a
medieval history group yet on the first page I find one topic that
isn't a) modern and b) american politics - what the hell does any of
this have to do with medieval history?  I am leaving, maybe I will find

Hello - I am looking for a list of harbour settlements for vikings from
Norway. I can't seem to find much online. I just read about the new one
they found in Frosta last year but are there anymore or somewhere i can
find out?

New Yorkers Are So Incompetent They Can't Even Keep Electricity On In
Queens -- Yet They So Often Think They Are In A Position To "Educate" The
Rest Of Us Throughout The United States.
Hilarious!

I have just finished a book on WW2 "Sledgehammers by Christopher
Wilbeck". The book itself was good but that is not what I want to talk
about here.
What is really impressing me about the book is that its filled with

I was wondering, how long the last oranized armies that trained and
fought in the Roman model lasted, coordinated, using the "Turtle" and
"Wedge" type formations, trained up as a unit, equipped with Roman
style weapons and armor, etc.... did all armies eventually become more

From:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/07/13/AR2006071301666.html
Cheney said that there was "no doubt" that Saddam Hussein had weapons
of mass destruction and was prepared to use them. "The risks of

Check  
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/07/22/eveningnews/main1826838.shtml
and read what William Buckley has to say about Bush, Iraq,
and his Presidency.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/1670308/posts
An Interview with Professor Thomas Madden: Dispelling Myths About the
Crusades
TFP ^ | 2006

Does anyone know how the vikings, norse would pronounce the word Manx?
WOuld it sound anything like Moax?
Thanks, J

Pogue Black is going through yet another of his frequent episodes of
Anti-Americanism.
Par For The Course...
DSH

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