The Roman Ninth Legion's mysterious loss

History Net ^ | 16 March 2011 | Dr Miles Russel

[SuperLuminal]

"Dr. Who is so wibbley wobbedledy."

Yep! Little did Albert know that the correction he was looking for, for so many years,in:

R_mn - 1/2g_mnR + g_mnL = 8piG/c⁴T_mn

was the "wibbley wobbededy stuff" (WWS)...

So the FR correction to the equation should result in:
R_mn - 1/2g_mnR + g_mnLWWS = 8piG/c⁴T_mn

Which means that all this "dark energy" that we hear about "constantly" is fake news equivalent to man-induced global warming...

[MightyMama]

I go with Jim Butcher’s opinion that they wound up in another world and started taming the local elementals to help ‘em out. “Codex Alera” is goooood reading.

[SunkenCiv]

Rosemary Sutcliffe's "The Eagle of the Ninth" is the source of the modern myth that a Roman legion was annihilated in Caledonia (not Scotland, the ancestors of the Scots were peeing their kilts in fear in Ireland for a century after the Romans left Britain). The loss of the Ninth in Caledonia just didn't happen. Roman conquest of Caledonia was never finished because A) there wasn't anything of much value in the whole territory and B) because there was seldom any threat at all from the Pictish population.

• Romans went to war on diet of pizza, dig shows
• The Romans in Ireland
• World Heritage bid hope for wall [ Antonine Wall in Scotland ]
• Iron-masters of the Caledonians
• Hadrian's Wall Had A Bigger And Older Scottish Brother [tr]

[kalee]

Eagle of the bed Ninth was made into a movie. It was on Netflix or Amazon, we saw it earlier this year.

[kalee]

Eagle of the Ninth was made into a movie. It was on Netflix or Amazon, we saw it earlier this year.

[teeman8r]

thanks

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[Red Badger]

IOW, the Romans Pict their enemies wisely.................

[SunkenCiv]

Any polity that gave 'em too much crap got their asses kicked. :^) The Romans only operated in force in what is now Scotland four times, beginning with Agricola, and ending with Septimius Severus. Hadrian's Wall (as well as the other "limes" and wall systems such as the one in Germany and the much less well known one is the Middle East) offered a sturdy defensive barrier, but mainly served the role of the great hedge in British India, controlling access and trade and excise tax flow.

[Red Badger]

The Romans only operated in force in what is now Scotland four times......

And every time they got kilt..............

[Texan5]

The people I know who are of Scottish ancestry are certain that their ancestors were part of the last of the best Scots-the ones who ended up here in the Carolinas after the Highland Clearances-and those who stayed in Scotland were wusses with no sense of adventure...

[colorado tanker]

I suppose to someone from the Mediterranean, Yorkshire must have seemed a bleak wasteland. Personally, I found the Dales a beautiful place.

[Domestic Church]

“The legend of the Ninth gained form thanks to acclaimed novelist Rosemary Sutcliff”

I remember reading this excellent book and including it in our home school. My fathers family were from Northern Scotland, Aberdeenshire. They were very tall and brawny with Scots chiseled features but had a light Mediterranean skin coloring that always made me think there must have been some Roman soldiers in the lineage.

[Domestic Church]

I think what was left of The Ninth Legion went native in the far north.

[SunkenCiv]

:^) Yeah, the Romans carried the kilts out on the tips of their spears, as trophies. The Caledonians got their asses kicked each time the Romans decided they needed it kicked. During the 350+ years of Roman Britain, they only felt it needed to be done four times. IOW, the Caledonians were not much of a threat.

[SunkenCiv]

http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/antoninewall/index

http://www.antoninewall.org/about-wall/wall-after-romans

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-8VbxILaaGNE/T3Nz7_5ausI/AAAAAAAABUo/eorDgpZ_Yfo/s1600/wee_suenos%2Bstone%2B%25281%2529.JPG

https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/forres/suenosstone/index.html

http://loveofscotland.blogspot.com/2012/04/pictish-stones-of-forres-rodney-and.html

http://www.google.com/search?q=Antonine+Wall&ie=UTF-8&tbm=isch&ei=UpCTWvTIKqiatgXH6aPoCA&start=20&sa=N

http://www.google.com/search?q=Hadrian%27s+Wall&sa=X&oi=image_result_group&tbm=isch

http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/romanempire/index

[SunkenCiv]

The Roman Ninth Legion’s mysterious loss
BBC | March 16, 2011 | Unknown
Posted on 03/16/2011 4:28:52 AM PDT by decimon
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