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I thought that they were talking about the nine Democratic presidential candidates!!! LOL!
Thnaks for all the great work you have put into your thread!
for you time and your hard work on the thread. GOOD MORNING EVERYONE. I have put on my warrior outfit and am ready to start today's thread. WaHoo........Let's roll.......
AND I MEAN NOW!
THIS IS DEDICATED TO OUR MILITARY AND OUR ALLIES. 
Oh, my, there is so much happening this week. I have to start my school shopping since it's back to school on Friday at Camp-Run-A-Muck. I have so much to do before the bus picks me up on Friday! Did you know that tomkow 
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And, tomorrow we are to meet at Radix's for pancakes. After that we have to workout on Thursday with Sports Day. I guess I'd better get started on putting these down on my schedule and making notes to myself so I don't miss out.
Ok, got to get started on my shopping. See ya in a bit.....
Mornin', everybody !
88 degrees right now, headin' for around 102 today ...
Have a cup while you FReep !
For those who prefer hot chocolate.....
Ceasar and the War in Gaul, some links
In 53 BC, when Caesar had left for Italy after the summer campaign season, the Gallic tribes rebelled under the leadership of Vercingetorix, who raised an army against the Roman legions still wintering in Gaul. Hearing of the rebellion, Caesar crossed the mountains in the south, digging through snow drifts six feet deep, to rejoin his troops. "The very vigour and speed of his march in such wintry conditions," says Plutarach, "was a sufficient advertisement to the natives that an unconquered and unconquerable army was bearing down upon them." To deprive the Romans of food and supplies, Vercingetorix had ordered a scorched-earth policy, and all the neighboring villages and farms were burned, "until fires were visible in all directions." But one tribe, already having torched twenty towns in a single day, refused to destroy its capital at Avaricum (Bourges), "almost the finest in Gaul, the chief defense and pride of their state."
Continued here
Near the quiet modern-day town of Alise-Sainte Reine in France, 32 miles northwest of Dijon, Gaius Julius Caesar fought one of history's legendary battles. His opponent, Vercingetorix, an Avernian chieftain, had raised a great confederacy of Gallic tribes to hurl the Romans once and for all from their war-torn lands. Caesar's legions were outnumbered by their enemies roughly six to one. He had built a series of fortifications around the isolated fortress of Alesia which was considered breathtaking even by Roman engineering standards -not one, but two, great circumvallations totaling between 10 and 13 miles each. Atop Alesia, Vercingetorix's tribes attacked; outside the perimeter fortifications, a giant Gallic army arrived in support. Caesar was fighting the combined might of Gaul in two directions at once. Yet his victory at Alesia and the surrender of Vercingetorix was so complete that many historians view the siege as definitive in the bloody attempt to impose Roman rule on "Long-haired Gaul." Caesar's final two years in the province were, after Alesia, largely mopping-up operations. The tribal confederacy was broken at Alesia: it never recovered.
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