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Vikings AND Templars
The History Channel | 12/6/17 | Noumenon

Posted on 12/06/2017 6:33:19 PM PST by Noumenon

It just doesn't get any better.


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; History
KEYWORDS: templars; vikings
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1 posted on 12/06/2017 6:33:19 PM PST by Noumenon
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To: Noumenon

Yes I am looking forward to it! :-)


2 posted on 12/06/2017 6:35:56 PM PST by left that other site (For America to have CONFIDENCE in our future, we must have PRIDE in our HISTORY... DJT)
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To: Noumenon
Viking, Templars, the Illuminati, and the Reptilians!

Now that's entertainment.

3 posted on 12/06/2017 6:46:00 PM PST by who_would_fardels_bear
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To: Noumenon

You’ve never met a princess-ballerina-martyr


4 posted on 12/06/2017 6:51:17 PM PST by Hieronymus (It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged. --G. K. Chesterton)
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5 posted on 12/06/2017 6:55:04 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: Noumenon

I miss Ragnar and Rollo!! But at least I can see Rollo (Clive Standen) in his TV series “Taken.”


6 posted on 12/06/2017 6:58:59 PM PST by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
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To: who_would_fardels_bear

Give me a Vandal or Hun as well, Rome sacking never fails to put a faint smile on this sour mug!


7 posted on 12/06/2017 7:25:31 PM PST by CharleysPride (Vaya Con Dios Eli, great career, man. Ole Miss still sucks, of course.)
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To: CharleysPride

Add the Gaelic people to that: the Gauls!

;-)


8 posted on 12/06/2017 8:19:06 PM PST by familyop ("Welcome to Costco. I love you." --Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy")
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To: CharleysPride

Oh...and the Visigoths (410), the Ostrogoths (586) and the Normans (1084)!

Was Rome really ever much of an empire?


9 posted on 12/06/2017 8:22:44 PM PST by familyop ("Welcome to Costco. I love you." --Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy")
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To: familyop

Yes!
And get down and dirty and thrown in a little Celtic -

Boudica! Can’t get enough Druids and chariots.


10 posted on 12/06/2017 8:23:23 PM PST by CharleysPride (Vaya Con Dios Eli, great career, man. Ole Miss still sucks, of course.)
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To: CharleysPride

Oops...the Ostrogoths in 546.


11 posted on 12/06/2017 8:23:26 PM PST by familyop ("Welcome to Costco. I love you." --Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy")
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To: CharleysPride

Yep. That’s a big 10-4 to Boudica!


12 posted on 12/06/2017 8:25:27 PM PST by familyop ("Welcome to Costco. I love you." --Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy")
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To: familyop

“Was Rome really ever much of an empire?”

Yeah, the hits kept coming.

I seem to remember the Romans themselves weren’t shy about looting Rome everyone in a while. Always remember — PAY your troops!


13 posted on 12/06/2017 8:29:39 PM PST by CharleysPride (Vaya Con Dios Eli, great career, man. Ole Miss still sucks, of course.)
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To: familyop

>Was Rome really ever much of an empire?

Longest lasting major empire history. Very few empires last longer than 250 years and Rome made it for nearly 700 years in the west and nearly 1200 years in the east.


14 posted on 12/06/2017 8:30:29 PM PST by JohnyBoy (The GOP Senate is intentionally trying to lose the majority.)
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To: familyop; BenLurkin; CharleysPride; Hieronymus; JohnyBoy; left that other site; mass55th; ...
Was Rome really ever much of an empire?!? Pullease. :^)

Rome's first conquest was Ostia, circa 400 BC; the empire was divided by the Emperor Diocletian before 305 AD; the eastern half of the empire reconquered a good bit of the fallen western half of the empire during the reign of Justinian, but regardless, endured with rising and falling territorial fortunes until the Turks finally waltzed on in and took Constantinople in 1453 -- iow, a span of at least 1853 years.

Although Rome never bothered to conquer Hibernia (allegedly modern Ireland) or northern Calendonia (allegedly modern Scotland, the Scots didn't arrive from Ireland until the 7th century AD), in each case because there wasn't anything worth conquering, Roman commerce was always far-reaching, even after the 5th c fall of Rome.

The full extent of Roman conquest is still unknown, but apparently Rome established a base or trading post on the coast of Ireland (there's an FR topic of course), and within the past ten years or so an archaeological rescue dig turned up a Roman cemetery in Copenhagen, Denmark.

15 posted on 12/06/2017 11:08:52 PM PST by SunkenCiv (www.tapatalk.com/groups/godsgravesglyphs/, forum.darwincentral.org, www.gopbriefingroom.com)
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To: SunkenCiv

I’ve heard that “There was nothing worth conquering” bit before about Ireland and Scotland, yet when one looks at the effort and maintenance required for Hadrian’s wall it is very clear to any impartial person that Rome simply couldn’t conquer the Scots. To build and staff the fortifications certainly was a drain, and it could have been avoided or minimized by simply marching to the northern coast. Even the nuisance raids from the Irish don’t seem to be something Rome tolerated from other neighbors; while Rome probably had the military might to defeat both of these places, they certainly didn’t have it in the right place and time to do so.


16 posted on 12/07/2017 4:04:31 AM PST by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: SunkenCiv

Is it possible that Rome never bothered to conquer Caledonia because, as Caesar was reported to have said:

“Caledonia, Quod facit caput tuum magnum et difficile?”


17 posted on 12/07/2017 6:41:11 AM PST by left that other site (For America to have CONFIDENCE in our future, we must have PRIDE in our HISTORY... DJT)
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To: Noumenon

Europe needs a modern day Ivar the Boneless.


18 posted on 12/07/2017 6:54:03 AM PST by ohioman
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Europe needs a combo of the Vikings and the Templars in order to properly clean house of the Muslims and the Quisling politicians.


19 posted on 12/07/2017 7:39:03 AM PST by Noumenon ("progressive” describes the progression of a terminal disease.)
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To: Noumenon

We added Long RD Home and Seal Team to those other 2.


20 posted on 12/07/2017 7:42:29 AM PST by GailA (Ret. SCPO wife: suck it up buttercups it's President Donald Trump!)
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