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Hadrian's Wall
« on: October 31, 2003, 05:03:22 PM »
The History Channel ran a show today on Hadrian's Wall.
I only caught the closing credits, but in the middle of this intense, military music they're playing, they showed a picture of two sheep.
I'm thinking the voice over is something like:
"Hard pressed to hold the Picts out of Britain, and unwilling to hire more Saxon Mercenaries, the Romans resorted to sheep to defend their borders."
Either that, or the sheep replaced the camp women, I wasn't sure.
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Re: Hadrian's Wall
« Reply #1 on: October 31, 2003, 07:20:59 PM »
We just recently talked about Hadrian's Wall in my history class.  

"So he built the wall to keep the Scottish barbarians out."  
"Yeah, 'cause a 4-foot wall is going to keep out a whooooole lot of people.

(I know, it used to be much taller, but the idea of 6-inch Scots amuses me to no end.)
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Re: Hadrian's Wall
« Reply #2 on: November 01, 2003, 09:07:33 AM »
It was pretty effective while they had folks to defend it.
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Re: Hadrian's Wall
« Reply #3 on: November 01, 2003, 04:43:51 PM »
Heh. I don't think i have ever seen hadrains wall. Maybe i did, but thought it was another dry stone wall.
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