[BGHater]

Tour de France ping.

[PzLdr]

“Omnia Gallia in partem tres divisa est!”

[mysterio]

Wow, is that bridge still working?

[ikka]

This is the sort of thing that a government should be protecting - but it is left to amateurs because 1) socialists hate Western Civilization 2) they would rather use govt funds to buy off their constituents .

[Oatka]

Very interesting. Thanks for posting. It triggered all kinds of thoughts. As the Roman accomplishments were described, all I could think of was the Monty Python routine in "Life of Brian".

Two others caught my eye:
3,000 troops then attacked the Teutons from behind, killing 90,000
What is always wonder to me is the high death rates in those pre-gunpowder battles. Then it was manual slaughter, no machine guns or bombs. You had to stand there and hack some guy who was fighting for his life - no easy thing. Swinging a three pound sword around has got to be tiring, no matter how hot your blood is and yet the butchery must have gone on for hours to attain those casualties. Even in the Crusade days when whole towns were put to death, it must have taken hours. What sustained these guys?

. . . erecting milestones . . .The History Channel wondered how they were able to measure their "mile" so accurately and came up with a cog-and-wheel device that dropped a stone in a cup after so many revolutions of the cart's wheel.

You have to wonder what the Romans would have accomplished with steam engines. Alas, with so many slaves, who needed labor-saving devices?

[Oratam]

The Romans built to last. A few years back, I drove north from Rome to Perrugia and Urbino. The modern motorway follows the Via Flaminia in many sections. While impressed by the many bridges still in use from the first and second centuries B.C., I was flabbergasted to drive through tunnels--at a very high rate of speed--from that period. Truly amazing.

[bgill]

Ooh, the giddiness thinking of all the geocaches that are probably along there!

[bgill]

Viola! There are several caches! Here’s one with pictures. Scroll down to gallery.

http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?pf=&guid=39ad2243-ff4c-4152-8d99-e0f03af61b78&decrypt=y&log=&numlogs=

[SunkenCiv]

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[bert]

......from which the 115-foot-high Tropaeum, or Trophy, of Augustus—still partially standing after two millennia—dominates the landscape......

At last, a trophy. I have read of various especially Greek victories where they “erect a trophy”. This is the first one I ever saw and is grander than I imagined.

In the middle west, we can trace the Santa Fe trail where there are mile markers and good records that one can follow from Independence MO to Santa Fe. That trail allowed the US Army to comquer the West.

I wonder if it will still be visible in 1800 years?

[decimon]

This deserves a bump.