Thanks, Craig, that's right handy info.  

Ok, I'll stop I promise.   8-)

 

Raymond Shahan

-----Original Message-----
From: Craig Lalley [mailto:[log in to unmask]] 
Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2007 1:29 PM
To: Ray Shahan; [log in to unmask]
Subject: OT: Driving in England


--- Ray Shahan <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> And then there are those knights who may have been left handed.
> 

In the category of usless facts, which I am sure Ray already knows.

Spiral staircases in medieval castles are running clockwise. This is
because all knights used to
be right-handed. When the intruding army would climb the stairs they
would not be able to use
their right hand which was holding the sword because of the difficulties
of climbing the stairs.
Left-handed knights would have had no troubles, except left-handed
people could never become
knights because it was assumed that they were descendants of the devil.

-Craig

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