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Re: AUTHOR EVENT

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From: Gary James
Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2000 00:00
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jim patterson wrote:
> 
> On Sun, 22 Oct 2000 13:33:31 -0400, Gary James <cnjames@homemail.com>
> wrote:
> 
> >I think
> >it's a trait of the Gaelic people who were great warriors, and very
> >independent.
> >
> >Gary
> 
> I happen to think you are right.  Also, we should not dismiss the fact
> that the norwegian warriors (aka vikings) conquered many european
> lands and intermarried with their people.  Then some of the most
> independent and warrior-like of the now homogenized warriors shipped
> to the new world;  possibly because it represented a new land to
> conquer.
> 
> You know the vikings were the ones who went through europe like a
> knife through butter a rapin' and pillagin' and killin' all along the
> way.  I'm not sure what happened to them, might have been something in
> the water.

Or the French women, who were far more aggressive than the French men, if
you get my drift.  I bet the bad old Vikings got where they dreaded to get
out of bed in the morning :-)

> 
> jim

Gary
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From: Gary James <cnjames@homemail.com>
Subject: Re: AUTHOR EVENT
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