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The question of whether Christopher Columbus and his crew were responsible for bringing syphilis to Europe from the Americas appears to have been answered by the discovery of a collection of knobbly skeletons in a London cemetery. A popular theory among experts in tropical diseases is that outbreaks of syphilis in the mid-1490s were a direct result of Columbus and his randy crew returning from their first voyage across the Atlantic in 1492-93. However, the largest excavation of skeletons undertaken in Britain has unearthed seven that suggest the disease was known in England up to two centuries before that. Archaeologists...

Subject: Pull my articles now Date: Sat, 4 Oct 2003 15:07:36 -0500 From: Shawn Redden wsredden@artsci.wustl.edu To: webmaster@freerepublic.com Hello: I don't want my columns posted on this website ever again. If one of you nutjob lunatic members pastes anything I've written, I want it removed from your site immediately. Since you refuse to give me the opportunity to respond to the slanderous lies your members spew about me, you have no business claiming you have the right to post the columns. Your refusal to allow me to answer the charge of anti-semitism with equally harsh language reveals both your...