> -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of (IBM Mainframe > Discussion List) > > WARNING: Continuation of off-topic tangent here follows. > > In a message dated 9/22/2006 3:13:40 P.M. Central Daylight > Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > >Alexander Tyler (a Scottish history professor at The University of > >Edinborough) had this to say about "The Fall of The Athenian Republic" > >some 2,000 years prior: > > His name was Tytler, not Tyler. And the name of that book is > bogus and so is the quote. The sentiment, however, is right > on. If you can find the book, I will eat my words and pay > you handsomely for it.
<http://www.snopes.com/politics/quotes/tyler.asp> Contains other "interesting factoids" as well. -jc- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
