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Re: [OM] William the C, was Re: Airport X-ray

Subject: Re: [OM] William the C, was Re: Airport X-ray
From: julian_davies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2003 07:51:38 +0000 (GMT)
Sailing East from Normandy would certainly be interesting. Was W the C the 
inventor of Land Yachting? <g>
Would have made a great OM opportunity.

Julian


>  from:    Chris Barker <imagopus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>  date:    Thu, 13 Feb 2003 07:26:58
>  to:      olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>  subject: Re: [OM] William the C, was Re: Airport X-ray
> 
> I'm not sure what you are getting at John L:
> 
> - William the Conqueror was a Norman and he sailed West from France;
> http://www.britannia.com/history/monarchs/mon22.html might help (it
> was useful for me ;-))
> 
> - now, which place are the British supposed to have ruined where they
> originated?
> ;-)
> 
> Chris
> 
> At 01:05 -0500 13/02/03, John A. Lind wrote:
> >>
> >
> >IIRC, didn't William the Conqueror sail east across the English
> >Channel in 1066?  And didn't he set out from what is now Normandy?
> >
> >I'm having cognitive dissonance now.  How can the British ruin
> >someplace that a very significant number of them originated from to
> >begin with?  Perhaps I'm over-simplifying this.  ;-)
> >
> >-- John
> 
> --
> <|_:-)_|>
> 
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