History Forum / General / Medieval Period / July 2008

There will be more devices like this, and the Antikythera Mechanism,
found, the statement about the technical literacy of some of the
medieval populace tends to support a belief I hold that such knowledge
actually was held from the Hellenistic times to the period of great

The same argument the hawks have been making for years to gloss over
the terrible violence in Iraq:
"We are winning, but there are challenges."
"We make great progress, but naturally there are ups and downs"

McCain's True Voice
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/30/AR2008073002948.
html?hpid=opinionsbox1
[...]
"When he says he preferred political defeat for himself to military

Actually just leave enough so that I don't have to get another line of
work.
Gary McKinnon, British computer hacker, loses appeal over US
extradition.

Why should the guy who _won_ the case have to pick up half the legal tab
for the guy who _lost_ the case, shouldn't it be the other way around?
Daily Mail
By LUKE SALKELD

Damn, it was a matter of time.
Now you can see ANYONE's drivers license on the Internet.
Homeland Insecurity,  Thanks.
You look so fine Mr. Hines.

"White House defends record budget deficit"
Hilarious!
http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/07/28/2009.deficit/index.html
Regan started his terms with a small deficit and left a bigger one.

Ivory panels reunited after centuries apart:
http://www.walesonline.co.uk/videos-and-pics/videos/2008/07/15/ivory-panels-reun
ited-after-centuries-apart-91466-21343231/
Questing lost manuscripts:
http://www.economist.com/books/displaystory.cfm?story_id=11745542

Recte:
Well, Barak Hussein Obama attended the quite excellent independent school
here in Hawai'i, which is well-known, some say, for turning out Very Smart,
Coolly Detached and Very Arrogant Folks...

What are you reading that's related to the topic of the group this
summer?  That's MEDIEVAL material....primary or secondary....

In Constantinople in 1204, Maximos Planudes found a copy of Claudius
Ptolemy's Geographia. It contained a map of the world. As the number of
copies of this map increased others started improving on this map. Some
claim that it caused a revolution in map making.

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someday ... he will die - coraggio!