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    Tomatoes were feared as poison because of pewter plates. The acid in tomatoes leached onto the plates and lead poisoning resulted. The tomato was blamed instead of the plates. Poor tomato, unjustly blamed for hundreds of years!
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    Quote Originally Posted by PolWatch View Post
    Tomatoes were feared as poison because of pewter plates. The acid in tomatoes leached onto the plates and lead poisoning resulted. The tomato was blamed instead of the plates. Poor tomato, unjustly blamed for hundreds of years!
    There is another reason and it's a pretty good one. The tomato comes from the Nightshade Family many of which are poisonous. Our ancestors weren't dummies.
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    I literally could not survive without tomatoes. They're in probably everything I eat.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Captain Obvious View Post
    Carp are not native to North America, the invasive species was introduced to North America probably through trade routes through the Orient.

    Neither are Brown trout

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    The Beginning of Relevant Time

    In 70,000 BC, a volcano eruption near Indonesia nearly smothered the global atmosphere. Worldwide, only 20,000 humans survived it. This should make our relation to apes as trivial as the primates' relation to whatever quite unalike creature they evolved from.
    On the outside, trickling down on the Insiders

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    Regine Pernoud was a fantastic Medievalist and author but, while reading her The Crusaders, I think she lends too much credence to reports of a massacre upon the capture of Jerusalem in 1099. I have no doubt that a massacre in fact occurred. What I do doubt is that it was something out of the ordinary for three reasons:

    1) Storming fortifications is an extremely bloody and exhausting endeavor. It's casualty intensive. It's par for the course for troops to run amok and there was very little the leadership could do in such a chaotic situation. Examples abound. At the 1812 Siege of Badajoz, for example,the Anglo-Allied army suffered thousands of casualties within a matter of hours. The troops proceeded to massacre thousands of civilians. It took several days to bring the army back into some kind of order. Mind you, that was in 1812 which was a time when gentlemanly conduct was still a very real expectation in wartime.

    2) As far as I know, no extant Arab account mentions it. If something either unprecedented or unusually horrific had occurred why the silence?

    3) Several extant accounts do tell us that in fact some people were spared.
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    was this the Crusade led by Richard the Lionheart?
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    Quote Originally Posted by PolWatch View Post
    was this the Crusade led by Richard the Lionheart?
    No, this was the First Crusade which was about a century before the Third Crusade led by Richard and Phillip Augustus. Richard slaughter of several thousand Muslim prisoners at Acre is well documented.
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    @Peter1469 has often asserted that the later Crusades were much more secular in character than us moderns are apt to believe. I think the Fist Crusade was clearly a popular religious movement and the religious current was still strong in later Crusades. That said, it's interesting to note that much of the later crusading activity was both financed and organized, at least in logistic terms, by the Italians whose interest was primarily financial. Unsurprisingly, Jerusalem itself was not the goal but rather the retention of cities on the coast, such as Antioch and Acre, that were key centers of trade.
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    I'm watching a documentary on the Battle of Antietam which, IMO, is one of the most interesting and meaningful engagements of the war. Anyway, one of the historians interviewed attributed McClellan's lack of aggression on Sept.17th to something other than his characteristic caution. He simply did not want to annihilate the Confederate army and by extension the old south. He wanted to beat them but just badly enough that a return to the prewar status quo would be acceptable. I must say I find that convincing. That he was somewhat sympathetic to the south is well known and that sympathy could very well have played a significant role in his failure to exploit the breakthrough at the Sunken Lane. Aggressive action then and there would likely have resulted in the complete destruction of Lee's army.
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