I think the only *good* that came out of the Crusades was that falconry was
brought back to Europe from the middle-east.
From: Yifu yifux...@yahoo.com
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Wednesday, May 8, 2013 5:13 PM
Subject: [FairfieldLife] A bad day for the Knights Templar
Friday
As Carl Sagan put it, had it not been for the influence of Christianity sending
us into the Dark Ages, we would have put a man on the moon a thousand years
earlier.
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
