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From: laura@utcsstat.UUCP (Laura Creighton)
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Subject: Re: lambda**4
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Date: Sun, 18-Dec-83 11:47:11 EST
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Posted: Sun Dec 18 11:47:11 1983
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Whoops. I said that Philip of Macedon invented the phalanx. Alexander
used it, however. Philip is Alexander's dad. He organised the Macedonian
barbarians into a fighting force that was able to capture Greek. This
was a tough thing.

My Creightons are (probably, my grandfather couldn't get it really
traced as accurately as he wanted) supposed to be Crichtons. They
were Scotch barbarians who were having a fine enough time of it until
the English introduced taxation, which they weren't so fond of. The
English needed to have a name to tax, and so they called the Crichtons
Creightons (something which they could pronounce). My ancestors were
in no position to dispute the matter, seeing as *writing* was a 
new-fangled thing which real barbarians didn't need to know anything
about. They tried to end the whole issue by declaring war on the
English, were soundly beaten and executed -- except for the escapees
which migrated to Ireland.

laura creighton
utzoo!utcsstat!laura