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Politics : Ask Michael Burke
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To: Alias Shrugged who wrote (46693)2/12/1999 1:16:00 AM
From: Ilaine  Read Replies (1) of 132070
 
Mike, great post. Really.

I don't recall Xerxes commanding the tide to stop, I do recall the story about Canut, aka Cnut, Danish/English king right before Edward the Confessor, shortly before the Norman Conquest.

Edit: looked up Canute in the 11th Edition of Encylopedia Brittanica, which has it that "The story that he rebuked the flattery of his courtiers by showing that the advancing waves paid no heed to his command is told by Henry of Huntingdon, about 1130." Which was about 100 years after his death in 1035. Looks like even Canute knew that the tide doesn't obey commands. Do you suppose our present government knows that?
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