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best, Doug?
On Thu, Apr 18th, 2013 at 1:10 AM, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Do your best, Bill <g>.
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> Doug
> On 2013-04-16, at 2:24 AM, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> > US rap star Fifty Cent may have had an ancestor in St Martin: Fifty
> Percent?
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> > Fourth century Martin,
> > later bishop of Tours,
> > reputedly gave half of his cloak
> > to a near-naked beggar at Amiens.
> > Which half I wonder?
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> > On awakening, he discovered
> > it had been restored to wholeness.
> > Beggar back to chilly I presume.
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> > Martin's reconstructed cloak
> > lived on as an alleged relic.
> > At least one Frankish king,
> > come the Middle Ages,
> > carried it into battle with him;
> > oaths were sworn on it.
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> > By all that's cloaksome
> > and wind-whipped,
> > I swear ... to uphold
> > the spritual thrust of
> > Martin 's semi-gesture.
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> Douglas Barbour
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