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Roman Treasure Hidden from Boudicca's Army Discovered in Colchester [UK]
International Business Times ^
| September 4, 2014 15:12 BST
| By Hannah Osborne
Posted on 09/04/2014 1:43:26 PM PDT by Red Badger
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Jewellery discovered beneath Colchester hidden for almost 2,000 years.(Colchester Archaeological Trust)
The wealthy Roman woman was likely killed by Boudicca's army.(Colchester Archaeological Trust)
To: SunkenCiv
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posted on
09/04/2014 1:43:43 PM PDT
by
Red Badger
(If you compromise with evil, you just get more evil..........................)
To: Red Badger
You can’t take it with you.
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posted on
09/04/2014 1:51:58 PM PDT
by
Mikey_1962
(Democrats have destroyed more cities than Godzilla)
To: Red Badger
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posted on
09/04/2014 1:52:38 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
To: Red Badger
BOADICEAI was whipped by the Romans when they tried to take our lands and now I am fighting for my freedom. Think how many of us are fighting and why. We must win this battle or die. Let the men live as slaves if they want. I will not.
From historysheroes.org
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posted on
09/04/2014 1:59:05 PM PDT
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BigEdLB
(Now there ARE 1,000,000 regret.s - but it may be too late.)
To: Red Badger
Fascinating stuff. Boudicca's rebellion took place in 61 a.d. when the Romans were making an overt attempt to overwhelm the local populace by encouraging immigration from what they considered more loyal parts of their empire.
A favorite source of this immigration was what is now North Africa and what was then a roughly 300 year old part of the conquered Carthaginian Empire. It seems all the chariot dust and other man made stuff had turned a once thriving savanna/tropical climate into a semiarid desert and new homes had to be made for the immigrants elsewhere in the empire.
Colchester was near ground zero for this immigration wave.
Fast forward two centuries or so and the King of the Colchester area was Old King Cole of nursery rhyme fame. Supposedly, he got his name from the city and his skin color, so was most likely a North African Berber by ancestry.
Needless to say, the original natives of the area didn't have a great appreciation of the diversity imposed upon them by Rome.
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posted on
09/04/2014 2:04:17 PM PDT
by
Vigilanteman
(Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
To: Red Badger
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posted on
09/04/2014 2:04:34 PM PDT
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BenLurkin
(This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
To: Vigilanteman
Sounds oddly familiar to today...................
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posted on
09/04/2014 2:06:36 PM PDT
by
Red Badger
(If you compromise with evil, you just get more evil..........................)
To: Red Badger
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posted on
09/04/2014 2:25:55 PM PDT
by
Conan the Librarian
(The Best in Life is to crush my enemies, see them driven before me, and the Dewey Decimal System)
To: Red Badger
Doesn't it though? Right down to the hedonistic amoral values of the ruling class . . .
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posted on
09/04/2014 2:27:29 PM PDT
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Vigilanteman
(Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
To: Red Badger
Check out
THE ROMAN EMPIRE - THE ICENI REBELLION - a 1 1/2 hour video. For Roman tactics, see 1:16-21, especially at 1:18 on - freaking cool. As one contemporary wrote, "Roman drills were bloodless battle; Roman battles were bloody drills".
Location, location, location (small front negates large numbers), discipline and tactics won the day (again). In this battle the Romans were outnumbered by at least 10:1 and still chewed up the opposition.
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posted on
09/04/2014 3:54:42 PM PDT
by
Oatka
(This is America. Assimilate or evaporate.)
To: Red Badger
the vengeful queen The vengeful queen? She was a patriot . . . and a grizzly mama.
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posted on
09/04/2014 4:39:29 PM PDT
by
Oratam
To: Red Badger; StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; decimon; 1010RD; 21twelve; 24Karet; ...
Thanks Red Badger.
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09/05/2014 5:49:09 PM PDT
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SunkenCiv
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To: SunkenCiv
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posted on
09/05/2014 5:56:17 PM PDT
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BenLurkin
(This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
To: Red Badger
They love to make stuff up. They have no evidence someone hid this treasure from Boudicca’s advancing Armies. Perhaps a man pilfered the items from a wealthy trader and then hid them under the floorboards and before he could fence them for good Roman coin he had a stroke which left him paralyzed and unable to speak so he could not tell his blind children and hunched backed wife where he put them.
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09/05/2014 6:41:32 PM PDT
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Sawdring
To: Red Badger
My ancestors came from the British Isles, I hereby claim my right to a percentage.
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09/05/2014 6:43:35 PM PDT
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rdl6989
To: SunkenCiv
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posted on
09/05/2014 11:29:31 PM PDT
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Bigg Red
(31 May 2014: Obamugabe officially declares the USA a vanquished subject of the Global Caliphate.)
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posted on
09/06/2014 12:54:25 AM PDT
by
freds6girlies
(many that are first shall be last; and the last shall be first. Mt. 19:30. R.I.P. G & J)
To: BigEdLB; Pelham; CatherineofAragon; Salamander
Ed
No disrespect and I am a fan and student of Queen Boadicea and used to view the great Thornycroft statue near Westminster bridge back when I lived in Londontown
But that quote has been regenerated by fembots to their liking......she never said that ...
She was quite familiar with statecraft as queen while her Icenjan husband had peace with the Romans for years....she knew you didn’t antagonize those you wish to die for the cause.....and when she made that speech they all knew their chances were poor....
Taunting the men in that fashion
According to Tacitus....I think....she said.....”as for this woman....I intend to fight.....I ask all to follow me or feel the Roman yoke”
That’s my memory at 3am and paraphrased but the nuance makes a difference
Its disingenuous for feminazis to claim a wrath driven warrior like her as their idol given today how they as pillars of the Left detest war...at least in our defense
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posted on
09/06/2014 1:18:08 AM PDT
by
wardaddy
(Ferguson MO...but i thought blacks went north to escape the racism of mean ol southerners)
To: wardaddy
Fair enough. I know that she was able to stand against the Romans fairly well, where as so many before her had not been able to.
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posted on
09/06/2014 7:59:03 PM PDT
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BigEdLB
(Now there ARE 1,000,000 regret.s - but it may be too latkebabe.)
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