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From: preece@ccvaxa.UUCP
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Subject: Re: origin of "crap", really: "flus
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Date: Wed, 11-Dec-85 23:50:00 EST
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> /* Written  9:07 pm  Dec  9, 1985 by jaap@mcvax.UUCP in
> ccvaxa:net.general */ Well, in the bay of the Isle of Barra, (West of
> Scotland, 57 N, 00:30' W) lies a castle (Kiessimul castle) dated back
> to around 1200. It is supposed to have the first flushing toilets. If
> the tide came in and out a room was cleaned out as well.
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Both at Knossos (on Crete) and at Hadrian's villa at Tivoli, near Rome,
I have seen what were described as water flushed sanitary facilities,
so I think the idea goes rather farther back than 1200 (Knossos is
fifteen centuries or so BC).

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scott preece
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