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Topic: Etruscan Daily Life 
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Message: Puls
Author: - Aulus Flaminius, Patron 
Date: Nov 15, 2000 02:42
      The word polenta is derived or so I understand from the Latin puls...a 
      sort of porridge that was prepared by the Roman army. It was not prepared 
      from corn, maize, as of course it was unknown, but from millet, spelt or 
      other grains. 
      BTW, the British refer to many grains as corn which can be misleading. 
      Now as to red hair there was, or at least there was at one time in the 
      Royal Ontario Museum a mummy ( not embalmed but preserved by the desert 
      sand ) of an ancient Eygptian woman who was apparently buried alive by her 
      neighbours as a witch. She had red hair that remained red for 3000 years. 
      Romans had red haired citizens among them...notably L.C. Sulla and many of 
      the gens Claudia, including Claudius brother of the Lesbia immortalized by 
      Catullus. 
      The Berber people from North Africa are the only nomadic caucasian race. 
      They have been in North Africa since the time of the Pharaohs and are 
      mentioned by Egyptians. Red haired people are not uncommon among them, 
      though as I myself observed unlike Europeans they will invariably have red 
      hair and brown eyes...quite unusual. 
      So though the origin of the Rasna is debated there is no reason to believe 
      redheads would be nonexistant in my humble opinion








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