From: kearsley@wham.umd.edu (Sarah Kearsley)
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Subject: Bayeux Tapestry gryphon
Date: Fri, 08 Oct 1999 00:39:13 GMT
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There's a reenactment of the Battle of Hastings near me this weekend,
so I shamelessly tried to copy one of the beasts off of the Bayeux
Tapestry, which records the event.  It's a really neat work of art,
though it is frighteningly long.  

                  _     __ 
                // )   / _`';.   _   .
               .\\ \  Y '^ <    ( \.'/
       .'``'.  \ \\ \ |   ("`   / / /
       \_)`\ \ (\ ``.`.    \.-'`.`.'7
            \ \ \`.`.`.'.   \    '.`
             '.`.\ . `   \   Y  _.7
               >  \       Y  |'`
             ,`    '._    | /\
            ,J _...-'.`.  /"\\`=-
      sk    | < | <'`  ) <    `'`
            `--'`--'   `"-"

Sarah

/_____________/|"Geologists are amazing. They know hundreds of words for
Sarah Kearsley||different sorts of dirt and hundreds of words for things
   kearsley   ||it does when left alone for a few million years."
_@wam.umd.edu_|/~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Thomas Kettenring