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From: "D. Spencer Hines" <>
Subject: Re: Godfrey de Bouillon & Charlemagne
Date: 15 Nov 1998 23:25:01 GMT


No Eliza,

"The Rain in Spain 'Lays' Mainly in the Plain.

DSH
--

D. Spencer Hines --- "Having taught in a university history department
for more than 36 years now, I would seek objectivity from anyone on
the street before asking an academic colleague in history." Norman
Ravitch, Professor of History, University of California, Riverside in
The Wall Street Journal, 5 Nov 1998, p. A23.

D. Spencer Hines wrote in message
<72nnlc$>...

>So they could, if identical chaps, be an ancestral uncle to millions,
>hundreds of millions?
>
>And if they were different fellows they could also EACH be someone's
>ancestral uncle as well --- in fact for hundreds of millions of
>grateful folks --- N'est-ce pas?
>
>I think she's got it. "The Rain in Spain Lies Mainly in the
>Plain...." I think she's got it.
>
>DSH
>
>Lux et Veritas
>--
>
>D. Spencer Hines --- "Having taught in a university history
department
>for more than 36 years now, I would seek objectivity from anyone on
>the street before asking an academic colleague in history." Norman
>Ravitch, Professor of History, University of California, Riverside in
>The Wall Street Journal, 5 Nov 1998, p. A23.
>G . EDWARD ALLEN wrote in message <>...
>>Dear Spencer,
>>
>>What I was saying was not that the Godfrey/Geoffrey who married
>Beatrice
>>de Mandeville wasn't somebody's ancestral uncle, but that I thought
>that
>>the case for him being identical with deBouillon was as strong, if
>not
>>stronger, as the case for Godfrey/Geoffrey, the crusader, being the
>>ancestral uncle.
>>
>>I apologize for obviously confusing you.
>>
>>K
>>
>>D. Spencer Hines wrote:
>>>
>>> Vide infra pro sapientia.
>>>
>>> DSH
>>> --
>>>
>>> D. Spencer Hines --- "Having taught in a university history
>department
>>> for more than 36 years now, I would seek objectivity from anyone
on
>>> the street before asking an academic colleague in history."
Norman
>>> Ravitch, Professor of History, University of California, Riverside
>in
>>> The Wall Street Journal, 5 Nov 1998, p. A23.
>>>
>>> G . EDWARD ALLEN wrote in message <>...
>>>
>>> <snip>
>>>
>>> >I do not think that the case for ancestral uncle is that strong
>>> either.
>>>
>>> <snip>
>>>
>>> >Kay Allen AG
>>>
>>> You might care to trace it yourself in AR7. Start with Line 158A
>>> [from which you have previously quoted] and trace through Line
158,
>>> Line 148, Line 155 and Line 140, for good measure.
>>>
>>> With five choices from the menu, supra, you get egg roll and an
>almond
>>> cookie FREE, dear.
>>>
>>> Weis, Sheppard and Faris report that anyone who is descended from
>>> Edward I 'Longshanks' [the "Bad King" in Mel Gibson's
'Braveheart']
>>> and his second wife, Marguerite de France [she's the golden girl]
>is
>>> also an x times Great Grand-Niece or Great Grand-Nephew of Godfrey
>de
>>> Bouillon [the 'ancestral Uncle'], "Good, Pure, Christian Knight
and
>>> Crusader].
>>>
>>> I think God just does it this way so that things even out at the
>Last
>>> Judgment, don't you Kay, dear?
>>>
>>> D. Spencer Hines
>>>
>>> Lux et Veritas
>>> Fortem Posce Animum
>>> Illegitimis Non Carborundum [N.B. Not talking about you dear.]
>
>

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