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An academic says he’s found evidence that Britain’s legendary outlaw Robin Hood wasn’t as popular as folklore suggests.

Julian Luxford says a note discovered in the margins of an ancient history book contains rare criticism of the supposedly benevolent bandit.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090314/ap_on_re_eu/eu_britain_robin_hood


24 posted on 03/15/2009 12:26:33 PM PDT by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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I heard they found his birth certificate.

Seems he was born in Kenya. :^)


32 posted on 03/16/2009 12:10:51 PM PDT by vimto (To do the right thing you don't have to be intelligent - you have to be brave (Sasz))
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