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To: patton; muawiyah; blam; SunkenCiv
that's Caligula's real name. Though I think Obambi is worse than Caligula -- at least Caligula didn't ruin the Empire with his madness. Obambi is like King John --> John's dad, Henry II had a huge empire over the entire British Isles with the Irish calling him overking, the Scottish and Welsh acknowledging his suzerainty and him controlling the entire western half of France (of modern-day France -- in the 12th century he actually ruled over more of France than the French King)

John squandered it all away.

If Richarde Coeur de Lion (the Lionheart) had remained, the Magna Carta would not have been signed and probably there would have been a union between France and England. Of course then everyone would have been speaking French (as did Richard the Lion-heart who was French, born in France, spoke only French and not Old English and was buried in France)

27 posted on 08/05/2011 1:02:13 AM PDT by Cronos ( W Szczebrzeszynie chrzaszcz brzmi w trzcinie I Szczebrzeszyn z tego slynie.)
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To: Cronos
More likely Richard ~ along with virtually all the fellows who went to Jerusalem ~ spoke GALLO and not really French. There were NUMEROUS Gallo dialects throughout what we today call France, Belgium, Luxembourg, Germany ~ and standard French as spoken in the Ile de France (Paris and environs) was not all that developed.

Spain limped along with several languages, maybe 8 ~ Ladino, Arabic, Berber, Galician, Latin, Basque, Gallo, Cornwall, and several others.

31 posted on 08/05/2011 5:44:36 AM PDT by muawiyah
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