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.
Sunday, August 3, 2025
ROMA- Colonna di Traiano- Conquista della Dacia, particolari.
The expertise to do that today doesn't exist. 30-40 years ago, on Girard Ave, west of the zoo, were homes boarded up as drug dens that had masonry on them that also can't be duplicated.
There's ancient interesting stuff all over the place in the old core of Rome. You don't even need a tour guide, just go for a walk. I never thought I'd be listening to a classic music concert in the big Anglican Church of Rome, but there I went.
Not built in Africa, Wakanda, or anywhere close...
ReplyDeleteit is large too. Trajan was.
ReplyDeleteThe expertise to do that today doesn't exist. 30-40 years ago, on Girard Ave, west of the zoo, were homes boarded up as drug dens that had masonry on them that also can't be duplicated.
ReplyDeleteYou have to figure at some point the guy carving it had an "oops moment" and said "crap, how am I going to cover that up?".
ReplyDeleteWow!
ReplyDeleteThere's ancient interesting stuff all over the place in the old core of Rome. You don't even need a tour guide, just go for a walk. I never thought I'd be listening to a classic music concert in the big Anglican Church of Rome, but there I went.
ReplyDeleteGive it a generation. The newcomer hoard will bust them up.
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