History Forum / General / Medieval Period / November 2007

Dear Newsgroup ~
We're often treated to Latin forms of names because historians and
genealogists are a bit sloppy in their presentation of medieval
records.

In 1817 the streets of Edinburgh were deprived of
one of their most peculiar objects. The City Guard,
of which Scott has given so good an account in his
Heart of Midlothian after subsisting since about the

A VIKING EPIC! Finalist - ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year Awards.
Action and Adventure from Norway, along the Silk Route into China's
notorious Taklamakan desert!
The characters are fictional, the places and means are true!

Rubbish.
Not True At All.
Pogue Brannigan is obviously not well-practiced in the arts of Afterplay,
Repeated Coitus and Post-Coital Afterglow, which in some women who have been

A few more to go.
In a futile face-saving exercise the White House is trying to create the
illusion that Wolfowitz is not being fired and does not end his presidency
of the World Bank under a cloud.

A deep sensation of horror was excited at the end
of 1828 by the exposure of what are called " The West
Port Murders." It was only for a single murder that
Burke and Helen Macdougal were tried; but it was

Calvinist Sang
CALVINIST   SANG
A Hunder pipers canna blaw
Wir trauchled times awa,

http://jewishphilosopher.blogspot.com/2007/05/new-atheism.html
Thursday, May 10, 2007
The New Atheism
As many are aware, there is a New Atheist movement going on today; a

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Anyone else enjoy these?
I liked the one show about Clovus I, but I am curious where they got
their information on Merovech.  There doesn't seem to be a lot known
about him.  Anyone have a good link for him thats not wikipedia?

All of the below categories...
Every Brit I've ever met has just said "The Queen" -- never the "Queen of
England".
Allan Connochie is the one saying he has heard English People refer to "the

Hello.  Please translate for me this English phrase into the
classic/ancient Latin:
"A mind is a terrible thing."
Thank you, anyone who may be able to help.

Dear Newsgroup ~
Karen Repko recently posted an interesting record dated in the reign
of King Henry II, in which a certain William Bluet is styled brother
of Earl Richard ["frater comitis Ricardi"].  An abstract of this

Guy Halsall sums up current opinion on the battle
which took place near Tours or perhaps near Poitiers
in 732 or perhaps in 733.  I'll quote from his
"Warfare and Society in the Barbarian West, 450-900"

Yes, it's on the news that the English PM has
called it quits.
A good 9 years too late.
"I did what I thought was right" were some of