Re: [Mid] A Brief History of Time

One of my personal favorite "things I learned on the way to looking up other
things" (to steal a syndicated newspaper column title) is from The Timetables
of History: A Horizontal Linkage of People and Events (Bernard Grun,
Touchstone/Simon & Schuster, 1975 and 1979).

In A.D. 1151, the first fire and plague insurance comes into being in
Iceland. In the same year, the Chinese use explosives in warfare (having
perfected gunpowder quite some time earlier).

Coincidence, or unsolved mystery? <g>

Grietje
From: GrietjeCrynes@aol.com
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Received on Tue Nov 30 21:21:58 1999