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From: "D. Spencer Hines" <>
Subject: Re: Edward II's Sexuality
Date: Sun, 12 Oct 1997 13:16:44 -1000


At 10:24 PM 10/12/97 +0000, you wrote:
>R.G. MacDougall wrote --
>
><<The Romans had indoor plumbing, did the English also in their castles in
>1327 ?
>
>It looks like something has been mis-translated into, modern english.>>
>
>I wasn't translating, I was quoting a passage. And that is hardly the
>point
>of my post.
>
>
>
>Vickie (Elam) White
>

Hmmmmmm, methinks R. G. MacDougall has a point. The primary source for the
original would be useful to know. As it is, one tends to dismiss the
entire passage because of the quite possible anachronism.

D. Spencer Hines --- "Bogart is a first-class person with an obsessive
compulsion to behave like a second-class person." "Prince Michael
Aleksandrovich Dmitri Obolensky Romanoff --- Nephew of Tsar Nicholas II of
Russia" --- Proprietor of "Romanoff's" in Hollywood.

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