[Sca-cooks] No sugar - too much spice.

Brian Matthews Thain at bigfoot.com
Sat May 12 06:14:01 PDT 2001


Actually , IIRC , they considered a pace five feet, you know , the old
heal-to-toe measure
Chris Stanifer wrote:
>
> --- "Decker, Terry D." <TerryD at Health.State.OK.US> >
> Miles, as used outside of the Germanic countries,
> > are based on 1000 Roman
> > paces (mille), or the distance between Roman
> > milestones, approximately 5,000
> > feet.
> >
>
> This would mean that each "pace" was five feet
> apart...
> Those Romans must have had some seriously loooong
> legs.
>
> Bal
>
> =====
> Words are Trains for moving past what really has no name...
>
> __________________________________________________
> Do You Yahoo!?
> Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices
> http://auctions.yahoo.com/
> _______________________________________________
> Sca-cooks mailing list
> Sca-cooks at ansteorra.org
> http://www.ansteorra.org/mailman/listinfo/sca-cooks

NetZero Platinum
No Banner Ads and Unlimited Access
Sign Up Today - Only $9.95 per month!
http://www.netzero.net



More information about the Sca-cooks mailing list