History Forum / General / Medieval Period / March 2007

Are Americans really this stupid?
            http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJuNgBkloFE

I have long been in favor of Trident and our need to renew our nuclear
capability for the defence of the UK.  Nuclear weapons have brought relative
peace to the continent of Europe and has enabled us to stay free of war and
prosper.

There you have it folks.
I TOLD YOU SO.
http://www.cnn.com/2006/HEALTH/10/05/pot.alzheimers.reut/index.html
Sex, No Alzheimer's, and Rock and Roll.

Just when you thought of depairing at the
state of the world, with all the genocide,
the Muslims, the burgeoning populations, the
welfare states, the illegal migrants,

_The Queen_ will be released on DVD in Region One on 24 April.
_Casino Royale_ was released on 13 March.
And _The Charge of the Light Brigade_* was released Tuesday, 27 March.
NICE TIMING...

Going through things I found this article that I hadn't seen posted:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/5399670.stm

How do we know that the LEGIO II AUGUSTA allowed wives and children onto
their barracks in Caerleon ?  Because children's milk teeth were found in
the drainage system of the Roman Bath's.  The steam loosened the children's
milk teeth and they fell out.  Hair clips belonging to ...

Followup:
Inger,
How do you pronounce å, ä and ö in Swedish?
Any similarity to German?

This is as far as I got this time:
Hill of a fight looming over Bannockburn:
http://news.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=420822007
20 Medieval Coffins:

So, what's the consensus here -- will Scotland go its own way?
When will we know?
Will the Scots dissolve the Union and pull out of the United Kingdom?
If so, how will that effect the price and quality of Lagavulin?...

At the White House, Tony Snow, the spokesman, said the House measure “has
zero chance to be enacted into law.”
“It’s bad legislation,” he said.  “The president is going to veto it, and
Congress will sustain that veto.”

I found this ring metal detecting and believe it to be medieval. I can see
that it was made by bending a strip of metal to the required shape and then
using the face of the ring like a rivet to hold it all together. I would
appreciate any views on it. I've posted a couple of ...

Dear Newsgroup ~
Below is a transcript of the accord dated 17 April 1423, between Sir
John [of Lancaster], Duke of Bedford (younger son of King Henry IV of
England) and Philippe, Duke of Burgundy, the brother of his intended