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Colm--

History is selected documentation of all known facts that are recorded (though later readers had no hand in selection of the input)--Somebody else selected or left out maybe whole reems of ideas, that should have been included.

Review of the literature is much easier with linked libraries and the internet--When I was in college doing graduate work--our review of documentation--was limited to what we could lay our hands on as data--NOW THE WHOLE WORLD--is there in the mix of almost instant RECALL.

WE were TAUGHT:

•STUDY and come up with a TOPIC to investigate
•STATE THE PROBLEM ( HYPOTHESIS)
•REVIEW THE LITERATURE (now the whole WORLD)
•STATE THE IDEAS SUPPORTED BY PROOF
•STATE WHAT IS NOT PROVEN
•CROSS REFERENCE AND FOOT NOTE WITH ALL REFERENCES
•SUMMARIZE AND COLATE, EXTRAPOLATING THE OVERLAP WITHOUT SUPPORT.
•WRITE OUT THE PROOF WITH DOCUMENTATION
•PUBLISH THE FINDINGS YES OR NO

Thats how we had to do it in the OLD DAYS--

MAB you are JUMPING THE GUN, before all the facts are in--Everyone is entitled to an opinion, until the PROOF OF THE PUDDING is in--THE TASTING.

I AM 1/8 CHEROKEE AND SCOTCH IRISH--HELL OF A COMBINATION--INDIANS COULD HAVE DONE A LOT OF THINGS THAT ARE NOT PART OF HISTORY--AS WELL AS COULD HAVE SCOTS, IRISH, GERMANS...............ETC.

RESEARCH IS THE KEY--THEN THE DETERMINATION--TRUE OR FALSE--BUT THERE IS ALWAYS THE POSSIBILITY--NOT ENOUGH DATA---------------?

INTUITION SOUNDS GOOD SOMETIMES, BUT IS NOT PROOF--OTHER TIMES
THERE IS CURRENTLY NOT ENOUGH SUPPORT FOR THE HYPOTHESIS, THEN NO DETERMINATION CAN BE MADE--SOMETIMES THE RESEARCH IS FAULTY--

COMPLICATED IS THE CRUX--GOOD LUCK IN THE INVESTIGATION COLM

I LOVE THE BLUES TOO--

Mackie