--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Mike Dixon <mdixon.6569@...> wrote: > > I think the only *good* that came out of the Crusades was that falconry was > brought back to Europe from the middle-east.
And musical instruments. The bagpipes and lute are Persian inventions. The bag on the bagpipes are a way of playing the snake charmers flute while marching and not get out of breath. The oud was called le'oud by the French aristocracy in England, that got naturalised and the lute became part of folk music. > From: Yifu <yifuxero@...> > To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com > Sent: Wednesday, May 8, 2013 5:13 PM > Subject: [FairfieldLife] A bad day for the Knights Templar > > Â > Friday the 13-th, Oct. 1307 - Knights Templar arrested in France. > Disbanded in 1312 by Pope Clement V. > ... > Another bad day in 1187, Battle of the Horn - Jerusalem recaptured by > Saladin.: > http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/66/Hattin.jpg >
