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From: slb@drutx.UUCP (Sue Brezden)
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Subject: Re: Flush toilets
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Date: Fri, 13-Dec-85 10:56:07 EST
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Posted: Fri Dec 13 10:56:07 1985
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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).
>scott preece

Yes, but the idea was forgotten--along with so much else--during the
Middle Ages.  Perhaps it was one of those horrible pagan practices
(like regular bathing, scientific inquiry, enjoyment of sex, and common 
literacy) that was deemed debilitating to the masses.

It was reinvented in the 1700's sometime.
-- 

                                     Sue Brezden
                                     ihnp4!drutx!slb

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