"Chess One" writes:


Who knows? Maybe Michael is specifically identifying himself with English St
George and St Michael. Maybe the Libyans didn't have a proper Cornish flag,
the one with 15 golden pasties in a downward pointing triangle formation,
with a couple of rooks looking on.

Should you like to take a look at Michael's home town try this link
http://www.bbc.co.uk/cornwall/photos/falmouth/1.shtml
where there are 27 views. I think #20 shows a palm tree, the climate is the
mildest in Britain.

Almost excessively tropical in the short time I was there.

No view, alas, of one of Falmouth's greatest sights,
a pub with about 70 draught beers available.

My regrettably short stay there plus a perhaps exaggerated
concern for my health prevented me from sampling most
of them.

William Hyde
EOS Department
Duke University