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To: donc who wrote (258979)	7/7/2010 1:10:58 PM
From: ChanceIs	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 306849

In his "History of the English Speaking Peoples," Winston Churchill notes in the first or second chapters that after the Romans left Britain - circa 200AD - there wasn't central heating in the majority of houses again until the Industrial Revolution - say 1800. Actually he referred to a "hypocaust," a fire in the basement, taken to be central heat. I suppose that one could always curl up on the dirt floor in front of the hearth. Hey!!! The Chosen One's EPA is fixing to close a host of dirty small power plants for SO2 emissions. I always preferred whale oil to electric lights. Electric lights are so harsh, and nobody should be reading past 9:00 PM anyway. We need to conserve our way into prosperity.

To: donc who wrote (258979)	7/7/2010 7:40:41 PM
From: koan	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 306849

The Romans destroyed Greek with tremendous malice. They made it a point to destroy all the library's and the books taking us back to the dark ages. It is true the church kept an iron fist on all individual thought through threats of torture for heresy. But there was also the black plague that killed something like half the people in Europe and we went back to a point in time when most peope were illiterate. Such a shame the Greeks met with almost total annihlation. Plato, Socrates and Aristotle were easily the intellectual match of Jefferson and maybe modern knowledge as well.