[Sca-cooks] Charlemange's tablecloth and period use of asbestos

[Ian Kusz]

Right...like his titanium prosthetic tongue, or his peg leg made of depleted
uranium

On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 3:51 AM, Elise Fleming <alysk at ix.netcom.com> wrote:

> Greetings!  Just a reminder that, according to Nicolaa Fletcher who wrote a
> recent book entitled "Charlemagne's Tablecloth", there never was a real
> tablecloth made of asbestos.  She consulted with several historians who said
> they could find no contemporary evidence of that story.  It appears that the
> story was fabricated in later years.
>
> Alys K.
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Ian of Oertha