Maggie's Farm

...according to a history channel program a couple years ago, visiting the great religious buildings of Europe, it was those expelled Spanish (& Portugese?) Jews who eventually built the great Dohany Street synagogue in Budapest --from whence, under nazi pressure eventually came to New York and joined the builders of Temple Emanu-El.

I think Bebe has his hands full at the moment.

http://www.gloria-center.org/gloria/2010/10/muslim-brotherhood-declares-war-on-america

(ht Instapundit)

instapundit has a interesting Columbus post this morning:

http://pajamasmedia.com/instapundit/107709/

Here's a snip (from his snip, snipped from Samuel Eliot Morison):

"At the end of 1492 most men in Western Europe felt exceedingly gloomy about the future. Christian civilization appeared to be shrinking in area and dividing into hostile units as its sphere contracted. For over a century there had been no important advance in natural science and registration in the universities dwindled as the instruction they offered became increasingly jejune and lifeless. Institutions were decaying, well-meaning people were growing cynical or desperate, and many intelligent men, for want of something better to do, were endeavoring to escape the present through studying the pagan past. . . .

Yet, even as the chroniclers of Nuremberg were correcting their proofs from Koberger’s press, a Spanish caravel named Nina scudded before a winter gale into Lisbon with news of a discovery that was to give old Europe another chance. In a few years we find the mental picture completely changed. Strong monarchs are stamping out privy conspiracy and rebellion; the Church, purged and chastened by the Protestant Reformation, puts her house in order; new ideas flare up throughout Italy, France, Germany and the northern nations; faith in God revives and the human spirit is renewed. The change is complete and startling: “A new envisagement of the world has begun, and men are no longer sighing after the imaginary golden age that lay in the distant past, but speculating as to the golden age that might possibly lie in the oncoming future.”
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well, i'd have an answer maybe if i could figure out the question

aw heck, Leag, you're right --i'm stuck with a single digit answer

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