... Firth wrote (in article <1imcc32.akhkre1ykhqtuN%%%%steve%%@malloc.co.uk>): NotMe <mee.not.me@googlemail.com> wrote: By you definition, should we be bombing France in retaliation for the Norman conquest? And France owes us back Normandy, Anjou and Gascony. We gave them Calais back, mistake, now they have bought Dover port. ** Posted from http://www.teranews.com **

... heart disease than many other western countries. In the United States, 315 of every 100,000 middle-aged men die of heart attacks each year; in France the rate is 145 per 100,000. In the Gascony region, where goose and duck liver form a staple of the diet, this rate is a remarkably low 80 per 100,000.25 This phenomenon has recently gained international attention as the French Paradox. (The ...

...to the throne Henry II already controlled Normandy and Anjou on the continent; his marriage to Eleanor of Aquitaine on 18 May 1152 added her holdings to his, including Touraine, Aquitaine, and Gascony, this included Bordeaux. So all fhe vineyards in Bordeaux gained preferential access to the English market, and winemaking in England became commercially un viable. 2) During WW1 all the ...