Anne--
I did not KNOW anything about the O'Sullivan Beare clan, but I was getting there.
Tell me, "Our Colly" was for real, that's it?

Yakouba was the subject of a book by William Seabrook. I'll have to look it up, but it seems the White Monk didn't live in the same time frame as "Strongbow".

As for Johann Luigi Burckhardt, he was one of the first Christians/white men to enter Medina, and he rediscovered Petra. His name is mentioned in Jericho Mosaic, which aroused my suspicions.

I'll keep you posted.

Jean-Daniel
--Previous Message--
: I knew about Numa Numantius and I have tried
: to find references to Yakouba and Johann
: Luigi (recently)
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: I suppose you already know about the
: O'Sullivan Beare Clan.
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: Google is a wonderful thing.
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: Cheers,
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: Anne
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: --Previous Message--
: I just wrote:
: Did you know that
: some of the more extravagant characters in
: the Quartet are not fictitious? Numa
: Numantius and Yakouba, the White Monk of
: Timbuktu, for instance.
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: How about a new feature on this site,
: "Historical Sources of the
: Quartet," for instance?
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: Well, you ain't seen nothing yet.
:
: Check Johann Luigi Burckhardt on Google...
:
: Who needs fantasy? Reality beats the hell
: out of it anytime.
:
: Jean-Daniel (still waiting for 50,000 people
: to show up: they want to see this baby fly)
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