NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #31/NN_1992_31.iso/spool/rec/org/sca/17016

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From: [e-mail] (Mike Andrews)
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Subject: SCA FGeography
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Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 21:35:00 -0500
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Greetings from Michael Fenwick of Fotheringhay, of the Barony
of Namron, in the Kingdom of Ansteorra (Norman, Oklahoma),
Greeting to the esteemed Master Vuong Manh,
Mandarin of the Second (?) Class

Organizations: Waytes and Measures, a Medieval and Renaissance Consort

To: [e-mail] (Dick Eney)
 On 12-21-92 DICK ENEY wrote to ALL...

 DE> SUBJECT: Re: SCA Geography
 DE>
 DE> As for in-period contacts with the Japanese, remember that the
 DE> closing off of Japan and China was a reaction to the aggressive
 DE> merchandising -- to put it gently -- of the Elizabethan and early
 DE> Jacobean periods.  (Not just English, but these are the time-
 DE> periods we're most likely to know offhand.)  The Japanese, as a
 DE> f'rinstance, were definitely known as well as, say, the Tatars; the
 DE> Spanish employed Japanese mercenaries in the Philippines during
 DE>

Respected Master, your words were truncated, no doubt by an unlearned
gremlin somewhere in the works. Pray enlighten me by retransmitting them
in their learned entirety.

I have mislaid my copy of "The Anticalendar", but enjoyed it
tremendously while I had it.

Michael (Mike Andrews)
[phone]
429 Dakota, Norman, OK 73069

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