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Ping. You'll like this.

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The Romans claimed the invasion of the Huns around 450 AD was what triggered the disintegration of their Empire.

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" The calculations for the Taurids suggest that we pass through the core of the meteor stream approximately every 2,500 years - today, we are passing through the outer edges. The last two occasions when we passed through the core were in 2200 - 2000 BC and in AD 400 - 600. "

Well I'll be darned, here's another hint at circa 2200 BC.

Blam, have you ever seen any pics of the British "hill-forts", particularly the big ones that involved moving one hell of a lot of dirt? Some years back I hypothesized that they might be some kind of refuges for local populations against encroachment from the sea. I also believe that one of the reasons for ancient interest in the heavens was that they KNEW from experience that violent death from above was always a threat.

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Pendragon means head dragon or chief dragon or some such doesn't it?