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, August 13, 2022
A 16th century map of Nicosia, Cyprus, and a modern aerial photo of the walled city.
The amount of effort that went into building that wall/moat... it's neat to see the actual size.
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