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  eadfrith:

  Blood Stains from the slaine Monks of Lindisfarne in the Viking attack of 793AD.  Folios 191v and 192r of the Lindisfarne Gospels - written and illuminated by the Anglo-Saxon Bishop Eadfrith in 698AD.

  Liber generationis Jesu Christi

  “Lo, it is nearly 350 years that we and our fathers have inhabited this most lovely land, and never before has such terror appeared in Britain as we have now suffered from a pagan race, nor was it thought that such an inroad from the sea could be made. Behold, the church of St. Cuthbert spattered with the blood of the priests of God, despoiled of all its ornaments; a place more venerable than all in Britain is given as a prey to pagan peoples.”

  Alcuin, Letter to Ethelred, King of Northumbria

  Images: British Library

  
  

  04/12/13

• I had a Brooks Brothers 15 1/2 - 35 shirt and we used its front pocket to determine when the Pilot design was “pocket sized” - Joel Jewitt, discussing the invention of the Palm Pilot

  http://www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/20130408043926-7298-early-employees-joel-jewitt-palm

  04/12/13

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  Before I discovered the Internet

  
  

  04/07/13