Re: New book

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news:jGOWE8AQgNZDFwqw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx by Bryn
<bryn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> . . . :

> In message <MPG.1dcb58458b6fada198977f@news>, BernardZ
> <bernardZ@xxxxxxxxxx> writes
>>In article <PXQ7f.36765$d5.193748@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
>>inger_e.johansson@xxxxxxxxx says...
>>> They include the relationships between megalithic
>>> architecture, ancient astronomy, and an agricultural/fertility
>>> religion in North America and abroad.
>>>
>>
>>I find it hard to believe that if there was contact that the
>>potato and tobacco would not have spread much earlier.

[chuckle] Just 'hard to believe'.

> Word is that Walter Raleigh, short of something useful present
> to QE1 after the return journey from the States, dropped into
> Ireland on the way home. And there discovered the humble potato
> newly arrived from places unknown.

This would be the 'New world produce suddenly exploded onto the old
world' theory of food culture spread?

There is a brand of tabacco named after Raleigh over here. Potatoes,
of course, originated in south america. Of course, sailors were often
solicited from many ports, and thus you could have Irish sailors on
spanish or portuguese ships, or alternatively spanish or portuguese
sailors on hire for Irish ships.


Or more probably the Irish got in some battle with the spanish,
having run out of ammunition were blasting potatoes at them like shot
from a cannon. Have you ever seen the 'how to defend yourself when
being attacked by fruit' training film? Obviously the british have
been training for the possibility of agrarian based warfare. :^).
[They also have films on 'how not to be seen']





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