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To: expat_panama
"Saladin, Saladin...
Have Sword Will Travel"

El Cid, now there was a guy. Cid Vicious.

Just pointing out that any culture that has to resort to making up their heros isn't a culture worth preserving.
11 posted on 01/18/2004 9:34:36 PM PST by NewRomeTacitus (Time to install a leader all Iraqis can look up to: the Iron Sheik!)
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To: NewRomeTacitus
any culture that has to resort to making up their heros isn't a culture worth preserving.

Then again, most heros are of the 'made to order' type.  Ireland's Brian Buro and England's Alfred the Great come to mind. 

12 posted on 01/19/2004 5:09:00 AM PST by expat_panama
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