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Eduardo wrote:
Interesting article that considers Nick's views on genetics, and the origins of UK's population:

http://timesonline.typepad.com/science/2009/10/nick-griffins-bad-science.html?bcsi_scan_EEC049581022EE5A=vI56KTyt4B0mLU/2Q0PftePUti4bAAAAL+zCHQ==&bcsi_scan_filename=nick-griffins-bad-science.html

Very interesting article that, thanks for posting it up.

"The very first ones, the genetic evidence suggests, came here from an ancestral home in northern Spain or the Basque country."

The Basques, what a canny bunch.
Their language isn't connected to any other, they have the highest ratio of the rhesus-negative blood group and they've done loads of things(!)

I got a great book a few years back- 'The Basque History of The World' and it's a fascinating read.
Should anyone be interested- see here

Jim Tones wrote:
I got a great book a few years back- 'The Basque History of The World' and it's a fascinating read.
Should anyone be interested- see here
Think i've read most of his books, certainly those I'm aware of and they've all been interesting. I think the Cod Book has cod fishermen providing Columbus with maps of the route to the New world. which they'd known about for years earlier because it was on the cod migration route.
Salt was good, as was 1968.

not sure if there are others I haven't read yet. But he likes to show how seemingly incidental things directed the course of history.
stevo