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After 883 Years, Cistercian Monastery to Close in Germany
The Catholic Herald (UK) ^ | 10/16/17 | AP

Posted on 10/18/2017 5:50:36 PM PDT by marshmallow

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To: alexander_busek

Very good on Star Trek, which I don’t know much about, especially in detail. That said, I’d rather know when the plague actually hit. Do you know if the mistake was deliberate, and if so, why?


21 posted on 10/19/2017 8:12:35 AM PDT by Hieronymus (It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged. --G. K. Chesterton)
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1200 is at the beginning of the rise of the Mendicant Orders (primarily the Franciscans and the Dominicans) which marks a diversifying of options for the religiously inclined. This increase in diversity coupled with the drop in population a century and a half later favours the earlier part of the window, but pretty well ensures that at no point after the window do the numbers reach those of the glory days.


22 posted on 10/19/2017 8:17:51 AM PDT by Hieronymus (It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged. --G. K. Chesterton)
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To: Hieronymus
Very good on Star Trek, which I don’t know much about, especially in detail.

http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/Requiem_for_Methuselah_(episode)

Do you know if the mistake was deliberate, and if so, why?

Probably a goof.

That said, I’d rather know when the plague actually hit.

Wikipedia is your friend.

Regards,

23 posted on 10/19/2017 11:38:43 AM PDT by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: alexander_busek

Wikipedia is your friend.


A good Western Civ course in 10th grade is an even better friend.

Plato rightly feared that writing would lead to much forgetting—I’d love to hear his reflections on the net.


24 posted on 10/19/2017 12:41:20 PM PDT by Hieronymus (It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged. --G. K. Chesterton)
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>>Wikipedia is your friend.<<

A good Western Civ course in 10th grade is an even better friend.

I had good history classes, and have done a lot of reading on the subject since - but unfortunately, like most people, my memory is not eidetic. Fifty years later, Wikipedia is a good friend and a necessary support tool for an aging memory that can't be sure whether Mr. Gash in 8th-grade World History mumbled "1334" or "1376."

Regards,

25 posted on 10/19/2017 9:02:00 PM PDT by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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