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Medieval News Archive31-Jan-2007
The American Civil Liberties Union and the Portsmouth School Department have settled the federal lawsuit over a ban of a Portsmouth High School student's Medieval-style yearbook portrait. The subway gates nicknamed iron maidens (due to their resemblance to Medieval torture devices) would become torture devices in emergencies because they would prevent passengers from evacuating quickly, city officials charged yesterday. At a City Council hearing, council members demanded that the Metropolitan Transportation Authority remove the floor-to-ceiling revolving gates that allow only one ... New York, N.Y.(January 26, 2007)? From Pope Benedict XVI to the Harvard historian Bernard Lewis, people are asking, What went wrong? How did Middle Eastern cultures transform from the openness and intellectual ferment of the medieval period to the closed theocrat societies of today? Go-today.com introduces the exciting new Romantic Road Journey vacation package. Travelers can follow one of the most stunningly beautiful stretches of road in the world, winding through remote sections of German countryside, medieval towns and picturesque villages. HUMAN bones, thought to be from medieval lepers, have been found during renovation work at a Coventry pub. The grisly discovery was made by builders during excavations at the Four Provinces in Allesley Old Road, Chapelfields. MICLOSOARA, Romania (AP) -- There is only one count in this remote Transylvanian village of 512 souls nestling in the wilds of the Carpathian Mountains -- and it isn't Count Dracula.
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