At 8:43 PM -0500 3/15/00, Alderton, Philippa wrote: >I knew the hashishim were around longer than we thought...... Almost exactly contemporary with the invention of Algebra, as best I remember. But, of course, hashish long predates the Hashashim. They merely discovered its political usefulness. David/Cariadoc http://www.best.com/~ddfr/