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Some loose pages of history

Spuds — potatoes and the Irish...

Irish Travellers are of an ancient race....

Irish Catholicism is integral to the national identity....

U.S. troops kill three journalists in one day — Baghdad, April 2003 ...

• What happened at World Trade Center 7? ...

• George W. Bush was not elected in 2000....

Kilkenny (Ireland) castle timeline...

• "The Truth:" a church without origin, and the man who started it...

• "Motte and bailey," the Norman proto-castle...

Pope John Paul II in Holland, 1985 — a misadventure...

Friesland, the originally-populated region of The Netherlands...

Polders — keeping dry land in Holland...

• "Nieuwe Spelling," the government-mandated orthography of the Dutch language...

• The accidental 1944 bombing of Nijmegen, The Netherlands...

28 pages of a Sept. 11 report missing — er, classified... — July, 2003

• There is a conceptual borderline between Catholic and Protestant, right where the Romans left it....

Cerball MacDunlainge, King of Ossory (Ireland,) skilled in Viking interaction...

• The Anglo-Normans in Ireland: Vikings twice-removed...

Alice Kyteler, convicted of witchcraft in medieval Ireland...

• It's possible that Jesus didn't exist....

• Albert Delahaye, a Nijmegen (The Netherlands) archivist, didn't believe that Charlemagne kept a palace there....

Dorestad, lost mediaeval city in The Netherlands...

• The English language is "simplified French," according to one Dutch person's historiography....


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