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From: todd@uop.edu (Dr. Nethack)
Newsgroups: sci.misc
Subject: Re: science is STILL religion
Message-ID: <1291@uop.edu>
Date: 22 Mar 88 22:21:45 GMT
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> In article <121@aplcomm.UUCP> jwm@stdc.jhuapl.edu.UUCP (James W. Meritt) writes:
> 
> >Show me a middle-ages king with central heating/air conditioning!

> The Romans knew how to build houses with central heating.  A kind
> of air-conditioning was brought about with clever architecture.
> They also know how to construct indoor plumbing.  All of these
> techniques were learned from earlier civilizations.


the word plumber comes from the old latin word for lead