Oh my aching brain!! You are so right.
Laurel
-----Original Message-----
From: John S. Quarterman <jsq@mids.org>
To: sinclair@mids.org <sinclair@mids.org>
Date: Thursday, August 12, 1999 9:10 AM
Subject: Re: eclipse
>>I'm waiting with great curiosity to hear from those living in Normandy and
>>England to tell us about the eclipse. I suppose in this day of scientific
>>enlightenment, there isn't much to say......
>> But evidently 1000 years ago when Richard II was Duke of Normandy and
>>his nephew (our Walderne/Walter) was perhaps 8 years old, it was quite an
>>event. Since it was so close to the millennium and followed the
devastation
>>of the Crusades, perhaps they believed that the day of reckoning was upon
>>them.
>
>The millennium in 1000 AD was a big event, for sure.
>But the First Crusade was in 1096; it hadn't happened yet.
>
>>Laurel
>
>John
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