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To: SaxxonWoods
"He wasn't Italian. He was from the city-state of Genoa. Italy did not exist as a country in 1492."

So then, using the same logic, and since France did not come into existence until 843, Charles Martel is not French (as the French claim) because he died roughly a hundred years or so before France became a nation.

Martel was born in what is now Belgium.

42 posted on 10/19/2006 10:41:54 AM PDT by Luis Gonzalez (Some people see the world as they would want it to be, effective people see the world as it is.)
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To: Luis Gonzalez

"So then, using the same logic, and since France did not come into existence until 843, Charles Martel is not French"

You meant 1843, of course. I agree, Martel was not French.

And Roger Staubach was not a Dallas Cowboy when he played for Navy, even though the Cowboys did exist at the time.


45 posted on 10/19/2006 12:32:58 PM PDT by SaxxonWoods (...ON 11/7, YOU ARE EITHER WITH US, OR WITH THE DEMOCRATS...)
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