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In article <160200002@inmet> janw@inmet.UUCP writes:
>There's no reasonable doubt now that Troy existed, or that
>Pope Joan did not. 

     Pardom ne?  Are you saying that few people now believe
that Pope Joan existed?  Please expand.

     (For those of you who don't know the story... a mass of
circumstantial and explicit evidence exists that (at one time,
at least) was thought to indicate that one of the early Pope
Johns was a woman, who somehow made it all the way to Pope
without anyone knowing (or perhaps with all those who knew
keeping silent).  When she was found out, the story goes, she
was defrocked, excommunicated, executed, etc., and the Church
tried to expunge all mention of her name and history from the
records.  Granted, I first read about this in one of these
"things were great when all of civilization was a matriarchy"
books, but the evidence seemed impressive.)

--Jamie.
...!seismo!ubc-vision!ubc-cs!andrews