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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