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.
Saturday, September 19, 2020
First-century AD Roman bridge, spanning the Ofanto River, near Canosa di Puglia.
And without a earth moving machine, amazing really.
ReplyDeleteThe Romans contracted with the Pharos construction Co. based in Cairo. They had 10,000 earth moving slaves in their "equipment" inventory.
DeleteSlave power. But the Romans were very diverse, they enslaved everybody, all races.
ReplyDeletePelosi would approve.
The Romans knew how to build to last. When they vanished from the scene, things went to pot for a very long time.
ReplyDeleteNotice those massive abutments at the base of each arch. The river couldn't wash the foundation away in two thousand years!
ReplyDeleteDefinitely not constructed by the low bidder.
ReplyDeleteMy daily dose of feeling humble.
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