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'Biggest canal ever built by Romans' discovered
Telegraph UK ^ | Sunday, July 11, 2010 | Nick Squires in Rome

Posted on 07/14/2010 5:43:49 PM PDT by SunkenCiv

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21 posted on 07/14/2010 7:07:22 PM PDT by SunkenCiv ("Fools learn from experience. I prefer to learn from the experience of others." -- Otto von Bismarck)
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“All right... all right... but apart from better sanitation and medicine and education and irrigation and public health and roads and a freshwater system and baths and public order... what have the Romans done for us?”

LOL. Reminds me of one of my favorite signs: "Except for ending slavery, fascism, Nazism & communism WAR HAS NEVER SOLVED ANYTHING.

22 posted on 07/14/2010 7:11:44 PM PDT by mc5cents
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I may be newer to this ping SC but I see how dedicated you are in maintaining GGG :). Just wanted to help out a bit because I know you have only 4 hands :) Thx for all you do.


23 posted on 07/14/2010 7:19:13 PM PDT by Outlaw Woman
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Ancient Romans liked Nước Mám! Who would have guessed?
24 posted on 07/14/2010 8:36:31 PM PDT by ThanhPhero (di tray hoi den La Vang)
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Archaeologists discover late-Roman cemetery at site of derelict pub

So, tell me: how does a publican make any money off of derelicts?

Or, was this a "bread & circuses" charity deal, where they doled out drinks to derelicts in return for their votes...like in Chicago?

25 posted on 07/14/2010 11:07:42 PM PDT by ApplegateRanch (Made in America, by proud American citizens, in 1946.)
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Before the canal, the road was used to transport cargo from port to city.

My memory is that the canal has been known for a long time?


26 posted on 07/15/2010 4:27:33 AM PDT by bert (K.E. N.P. N.C. +12 ..... The winds of war are freshening)
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Hmmm...if they didn’t know of this canal then how do they know there’s not some yet bigger one to be found?


27 posted on 07/15/2010 6:12:27 AM PDT by decimon
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“All right... all right... but apart from better sanitation and medicine and education and irrigation and public health and roads and a freshwater system and baths and public order... what have the Romans done for us?”
I saw this movie for the very first time last week. We really do walk in the footsteps of giants. Monty Python, that is.
28 posted on 07/15/2010 8:51:27 AM PDT by I Buried My Guns (Novare Res!)
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“I saw this movie for the very first time last week. We really do walk in the footsteps of giants. Monty Python, that is.”

“The Life of Brian” was one of their best, along with “The Holy Grail”. You might also like “The Meaning of Life”.


29 posted on 07/15/2010 11:48:37 AM PDT by TexasRepublic (Socialism is the gospel of envy and the religion of thieves)
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Is that cemetary where they found the bodies, or were these random drownings or murders, CSIs want to know.


30 posted on 07/15/2010 3:19:47 PM PDT by gleeaikin (question authority)
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