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Washington had an artillery major map Yorktown a few days after Cornwallis surrendered. I laid that 1781 survey over a LiDAR scan of the ground today. The lines you see now were dug in more than one war.
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This surprised us on a walk right after my mother died 3 years ago. Then I found a peacock feather in the back of her Bible that she left to me.
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Chrissie enjoys exploring the island of Kynos from her base at the Greek Retreat and wonders if her journeys could possibly lead to romance…
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Built a wall,around their wall. Genius ! these Roman soldiers could do everything. Engineering, fighting, law ⚖️ farming, etc.
In 52 BC, Julius Caesar trapped the Gallic leader Vercingetorix and his army inside a hilltop fortress called Alesia, in what is now eastern France.
Caesar didn't try to storm it. He decided to starve them out.
So his legionaries built a wall around the entire hill. Caesar ng of siege works ran about 11 Roman miles.
Then word came that a huge Gallic relief army was on its way. So Caesar had his men build a second wall, facing outward, around the first one. About 14 Roman miles.
The Romans were now sitting in a ring between two walls, with an army trapped inside and another army coming from outside.
In front of the walls, they laid traps. Trenches, some filled with water. Rows of sharpened branches. Pits with pointed stakes hidden under brush, which the soldiers nicknamed "lilies." And blocks of wood with iron hooks sticking up, buried just under the ground.
The relief army arrived and attacked. Vercingetorix attacked from the inside at the same time. The fighting was desperate, and at one point it nearly broke the Roman line. Caesar threw in his last reserves and personally led the counterattack.
The Gauls broke. The next day Vercingetorix surrendered. He was kept prisoner for about six years, paraded through Rome in Caesar's triumph, and then executed.
For almost 2,000 years, all of this rested on one source: Caesar himself. And historians argued over whether he exaggerated, and even where Alesia actually was.
Then in the 1860s, Emperor Napoleon III, who was writing a biography of Caesar, ordered excavations at a hill near the village of Alise-Sainte-Reine.
They found the ditches. They found weapons and Roman and Gallic coins. Later digs in the 1990s mapped the siege lines in far more detail, and they lined up closely with what Caesar described.
Napoleon III also put up a giant statue of Vercingetorix on the hill. People have long said the face looks a lot like Napoleon III himself.
Caesar's version of events was written to make Caesar look good. At Alesia, the dirt backs him up.
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I laid an 1848 map over modern laser scans of an Ohio earthwork. One shape lines up perfectly. One is just gone.
Mound City Group, Hopewell Culture National Historical Park.
Mound City Group, Hopewell Culture National Historical Park.
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If there was a zombie apocalypse, which would you rather be a zombie or a survivor?
While you ponder this, read ‘The Meaning? Sneakers & Creepers’
My choice? I’d hate of all the walking!
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My choice? I’d hate of all the walking!
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How far would you go to keep them?
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Christina’s contemporary life gradually opens the door to an ancient and supernatural past. The Vestal Virgin mythology, reincarnation, mystery, Rome, and Christina’s discovery of who she really is could give the story a very distinctive visual identity on screen. #YA #paranormal #Supernatural #VestalVirgins #ancientrome #Rome #BooksWorthReading #BookTwitter #YA #Paranormal #historical amzn.to/1VGburS
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A brother lost in war. A shocking claim. A deadly truth.
The latest entry in the award-winning Peter Brandt mysteries.
NO HILL TO DIE ON
*Best Mystery - BookFest Book Awards*
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The latest entry in the award-winning Peter Brandt mysteries.
NO HILL TO DIE ON
*Best Mystery - BookFest Book Awards*
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je n’ai absolument aucune envie de devenir quelqu’un qui sait jouer le jeu de la société
je veux vivre uniquement selon ma propre sensibilité
je veux vivre uniquement selon ma propre sensibilité
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The Mississippi used to run through here.
Lake Chicot, Arkansas, occupies a bend the river cut off centuries ago. Switch to LiDAR and look across the fields: curved ridges and swales still mark the river’s movement, running beneath the straight lines of roads and property boundaries.
Lake Chicot, Arkansas, occupies a bend the river cut off centuries ago. Switch to LiDAR and look across the fields: curved ridges and swales still mark the river’s movement, running beneath the straight lines of roads and property boundaries.
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