"Brenda Ann Dyer" wrote in message
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"m II" wrote in message
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Mark S. Holden wrote:

This is a hoax.

See


http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_spielberg_crusades.htm

A movie like that would be REALLY detrimental to a certain GW Bush
and
gang. Bush already called his invasion a Crusade. What a maroon.



The Crusades, like the Inquistion, were among the darkest, most evil
times
in all of Christendom, and were directly responsible for the Dark
Ages. It
seems strange to me that before the Crusades, nearly all human
knowledge was
concentrated in libraries built and maintained by Islam.. and Islam
was the
far more civilised and forward-thinking... gotta wonder what
happened..
maybe they are still REALLY ****ed about it??

Sorry BA, this is inaccurate. I'm not sure about the libraries part,
but the "Dark Ages" preceded the Crusades, and there were certain
positive cultural results from the Crusades (trade, written history).

T. Early wrote:

Sorry BA, this is inaccurate. I'm not sure about the libraries part,
but the "Dark Ages" preceded the Crusades, and there were certain
positive cultural results from the Crusades (trade, written history).

A lot of people consider the Renaissance to be the end of the dark ages.
That was around the time Columbus set sail. The time between the
collapse of the Roman Empire (400 AD roughly?) to 1500 is the likely
range for the 'dark ages'



mike



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..let the cat out to reply..

A lot of people consider the Renaissance to be the end of the dark ages.
That was around the time Columbus set sail. The time between the
collapse of the Roman Empire (400 AD roughly?) to 1500 is the likely
range for the 'dark ages'

Nobody, except you, considers the Renaissance to be the end of the dark
ages. Please stop cross-posting this inane (and inaccurate) crap to
neworleans.general. Nobody here cares.

No, don't bother to respond, I've just kill-filed you along with the
other cross-posting spammers.

metonymy wrote:

A lot of people consider the Renaissance to be the end of the dark
ages. That was around the time Columbus set sail. The time between
the collapse of the Roman Empire (400 AD roughly?) to 1500 is the
likely range for the 'dark ages'


Nobody, except you, considers the Renaissance to be the end of the dark
ages. Please stop cross-posting this inane (and inaccurate) crap to
neworleans.general. Nobody here cares.

No, don't bother to respond, I've just kill-filed you along with the
other cross-posting spammers.


Looks like I shoved the middle ages into the catagory. A reference I
looked at said the dark ages were roughly from 400 to 800 AD. The brain
is rotting. The MIDDLE ages ended around 1500.




mike

On Tue, 06 Apr 2004 20:00:40 GMT, m II
wrote:

The brain
is rotting.




mike

We figured that out when you first started posting here!

You Maroon!

Look I can spell like you.

Tracy