And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
BUT --- but do Sicilian women have freckles?
ReplyDeleteThe ones with Norman or Visigothic blood just might.
DeleteThere were a LOT of Normans in Sicily at one point...and the crusades did turn the gene pool there into a milkshake.
DeleteA milkshake! Hahahaha!
DeleteI like the last pic with the architectural elements.I wonder how they built those columns?
ReplyDeleteWhoever did it was a master
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