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To: quidnunc
For the last 50 years historians have believed the odds were at least four to one.

What did historians believe were the the odds between 1451 and 1955?

6 posted on 05/28/2005 5:57:24 PM PDT by Cowboy Bob (Question Liberalism)
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To: Cowboy Bob
To be more accurate - between 1415 and 1955.
7 posted on 05/28/2005 5:58:27 PM PDT by Cowboy Bob (Question Liberalism)
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To: Cowboy Bob

For the last 50 years historians have believed the odds were at least four to one.
What did historians believe were the the odds between 1451 and 1955?

They could have saved a lot of time by calling Vegas and
getting the line.


12 posted on 05/28/2005 6:01:39 PM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: Cowboy Bob
Cowboy Bob wrote: (For the last 50 years historians have believed the odds were at least four to one.) What did historians believe were the the odds between 1451 and 1955?

According to the article inmitially the ratio was reported as 30-1, scaled back to 10-1 in the 16th century.

14 posted on 05/28/2005 6:08:01 PM PDT by quidnunc (Omnis Gaul delenda est)
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To: Cowboy Bob
What did historians believe were the the odds between 1451 and 1955?

Well, Shakespeare, for one, cites numbers of approx. 50 to 1, if I recall correctly. That's obviously nonsense.

26 posted on 05/28/2005 6:30:45 PM PDT by Alter Kaker (Whatever tears one may shed, in the end one always blows one’s nose.-Heine)
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