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To: marsh_of_mists

Are you sure about that? Kozachka says the Philistines burned the library at Alexandria.


33 posted on 06/26/2005 1:44:42 AM PDT by ValerieUSA
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To: ValerieUSA
Burning the Library at Alexandria appears to have been a popular pastime among conquerors..

It has been blamed on phillistines, romans, muslims, and a pyromaniac librarian from Thebes that couldn't stomach competition..

There are also rumours that the Alexandrian Library's festival of jugglers with flaming torches may have caused a few conflagurations as well..

My best guess is the Alexandrian practice of tying oily rags to a cat's tail and setting them on fire during the full moon was the actual culprit...

34 posted on 06/26/2005 4:37:39 AM PDT by Drammach (Freedom; not just a job, it's an adventure..)
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