Re: Big Wave

[Dr Ivan D. Reid]

On Tue, 4 Jan 2005 09:18:16 +0000, Phil Launchbury <phill@launchbury.org.uk>
wrote in <slrnctknqo.cuh.phill@tabby.launchbury.org.uk>:
> In article <slrncti77i.3ng.Ivan.Reid@loki.brunel.ac.uk>, Dr Ivan D. Reid wrote:

>> original treaty participants. The colours and shape of its flag "derive
>> from the Holy Roman Empire"[1].

> As in "neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire"?

Quite possibly. I'm sure you know much more about such things
than I do.

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[Phil Launchbury]

In article <slrncu1f8s.aok.Ivan.Reid@loki.brunel.ac.uk>, Dr Ivan D. Reid wrote:
> On Tue, 4 Jan 2005 09:18:16 +0000, Phil Launchbury <phill@launchbury.org.uk>
> wrote in <slrnctknqo.cuh.phill@tabby.launchbury.org.uk>:
>> In article <slrncti77i.3ng.Ivan.Reid@loki.brunel.ac.uk>, Dr Ivan D. Reid wrote:
>
>>> original treaty participants. The colours and shape of its flag "derive
>>> from the Holy Roman Empire"[1].
>
>> As in "neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire"?
>
> Quite possibly. I'm sure you know much more about such things
> than I do.

I wouldn't guarentee it :-)

The quote was Voltaire I believe.

More info for the hard-of-sleeping here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holy_Roman_Empire

Phil

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