History Forum / General / Medieval Period / August 2008

This is precisely the attitude we see reflected in many of Pogue Black's
postings, as well as those of Horsellman Rarebit.
DSH
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When we work often it pleasanter to work with music playing.
Recently I was reading of Greek workers working in Israel in the late
1940s before popular radio came to the region. A team of men would be
hired to work on a job. Each of these men paid a small sum to have a

ELECTORAL VOTES are what really COUNT, folks.
Bill Clinton is RIGHT about that.
DSH
Lux et Veritas et Libertas

Would you vote for Angelina Jolie if she said she did not want any more wars
either, would lower taxes, cutting the military to pay for it, work to
legalize homosexual marriage, jaw-jaw with anyone who would jaw-jaw with her
and insist America be "less arrogant."?

Medieval shipwreck found in Barcelona city centre:
http://www.thinkspain.com/news-spain/14920/medieval-shipwreck-found-in-barcelona
-city-centre
Waterford Viking site has yet to be recorded as a national monument:
http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/ireland/2008/0505/1209924238973.html

Let's see where this one goes 8-)
Actually, I just happened to wonder whether anyone else is reading/has
read the book currently next to my recliner and half-finished: _Essen
und Trinken im Mittelalter_, by Ernst Schubert.   Of course, you have to

"Bill Clinton believes the Democratic nominee, far from practicing a
unifying, transformational brand of politics, has the political instincts of
“a Chicago thug,” one longtime associate said."
"Clinton has told people that Obama allowed surrogates to try to suppress

Mercury levels in Danish Medieval human bones:
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6WH8-4SCTSS8-1&_user=1
0&_rdoc=1&_fmt=&_orig=search&_sort=d&view=c&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=10&
md5=2b0e928f11ed1311591f5bc5833b179a
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT SANTA ...

Yep infinite divine love and mercy are definitely a plus.
"The children who were considered fortunate escaped with a broken bone
or a severed limb. The others, hundreds of them, were carried out to
be buried, and their remaining classmates lay crushed beneath the

Truman was attacked from BOTH the Left and the Right.
"To err is Truman" was the supercilious, patronizing attitude.
"McCarthyism" actually began with Truman and the Loyalty Oaths.
Even Gans will admit that -- grudgingly.  Gans was born in 1933.  So he IS

It seems humankind is destined to be ruled by
yesterday's men.
Recently President Bush went to Israel where
he waxed long and loud about America's

Dead Wrong...
The United States Gallon is better described as about 83.3% of the fatuous
Imperial Gallon.
55 U.S. gallons are then more like 45.8 Imperial gallons.

Perhaps I ought to start with a word about Western Michigan
University.  It is an up and down sort of place.  The dorms
contain the registration center, the book exhibit, a number
of meeting rooms, and rooms for a fair number of participants.

No juntas or democracy in China, just a
strong man at the top,  and subservient
compliant underlings.
The Chinks have another nice little

Just what I've been saying about why the hindering is being done.
http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/05/13/myanmar.aid/index.html
This is a country deserving an invasion, or at least a suspension of
its sovereignty when it comes to distributing cyclone aid.  f.ck