[WikiEN-l] Getting hammered in a tv interview is not fun

[Ray Saintonge]

Marc Riddell wrote:

>on 3/30/07 10:21 AM, Stan Shebs at stanshebs at earthlink.net wrote:
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>>On the 
>>contrary, the personal lives of famous scientists have always been
>>interesting to historians, and they've spent many hours in parish
>>registers and city archives to get the particulars.
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>Parish registers and city archives will only give you the what. The problems
>begin when amateur psychologists try to come up with the why.
>
On the other hand, if a deceased subject was also a writer details in 
the registers and archives could be useful to someone trying to track 
down whom to ask for permission to use copyrighted material.

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