h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

A13970478

Regret I've only just got around to reading these Entries properly as they were in PR when I was busy in the middle of an academic term.

However, this sentence doesn't make sence to me under the Header, Helena's Pilgrimage:



Which Emereror. Also it reads as though Helena was an inn-keeper.

I think this is meant to read, 'The Emperor (Constantine's) mother was a humble woman, the daughter of an inn-keeper, who had married a man who became Emperor' (see my Entry on St Helena at A11953280)


Later, Gnomon writes: 'Constantine later incorporated the nails from this cross, the nails with which Jesus had been killed, in the statue of himself on the column in the Forum of Constantine, thereby providing divine protection for the entire city.'

Thus this reads as 'fact', whereas in my Entry I write, that one of the nails was used to make the bridle of Contantine's horse, another to make his helmet, whilst two were thrown into the Adriatic Sea.

Perhaps Gnomon's Entry should read something like: 'One legend contends that Constantine later incorporated the nails from this cross, the nails with which Jesus had been killed, into the statue of himself on the column in the Forum of Constantine...' .

I see what you mean...it doesn't make sence.......

Gnomon's corrected it now, so hopefully it makes sense. I've only just realised that I posted this to the wrong Feedback forum. I wondered where it'd gone!