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[jenne at fiedlerfamily.net]

>     Perhaps.  And then again, it's perhaps also partly due to the
> compartmentalization of American teaching.  I remember the surprise I
> felt when I realized Henry VIII (1491-1547), Columbus (1451-1506), and
> Michaelangelo (1475-1564, the year Shakespeare was born!) overlapped.
> Not to mention all sorts of other people I haven't realized yet.
>

I found that Norman Davies' _Europe__ was helpful to me in synchronizing
things like this, though the first edition wasn't very well factchecked.

-- Jadwiga Zajaczkowa   jenne at fiedlerfamily.net
"American boys should not be seen dying on the nightly news. Wars should be
over in three days or less, or before Congress invokes the War Powers
Resolution. Victory must be assured in advance. And the American public
must be all for it from the outset." -- Evan Thomas