On Sep 16, 1:30 am, Doug Freyburger  wrote:   
   > David Williams wrote:   
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   > > Voltaire aside, I seem to recall that the HRE was an attempt to recreate   
   the   
   > > original Roman empire, with the blessing of the Pope (in Rome...), and for   
   > > many years the support and direct involvement of the Roman Catholic Church.   
   > > So...  I'd dispute that it wasn't Roman.   
   >   
   > The HRE was by German speakers with a lot of ancestry among folks who   
   > had never been conquered by the Romans who had in fact broken the back   
   > of Roman Republic expansion.  From the south republic expansion had   
   > stopped about the Danube to include plenty of German speakers (not   
   > modern German but some cluster of ancestral Old West Germanic dialects).   
   >   
   > At first I thought it was like calling Narn the Holy Centari Empire but   
   > the Narns didn't have that mixture of never conquered plus early to   
   > revolt.  Not a completely wrong mapping though.  Almost as much right in   
   > it as wrong in it anyways.  Sigh.   
   People from Earth creating the Holy Minbari Empire?   
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