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To: SunkenCiv
The Assyrian Empire was once the most powerful, proudest and cruelest nation on Earth. It was not without reason that Jonah balked at being sent to its capital Nineveh.

Two millennia later Nineveh was less than ruins. It had become a site completely buried and grown over with grass. The locals called it "the mound of many sheep". Napoleon campers there and had no idea a biblical metropolis had been where he stood.

Much lesson for any country, there is in that.

7 posted on 07/03/2019 9:44:03 AM PDT by Ciaphas Cain (Polls don't lie, but liars poll.)
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To: Ciaphas Cain
Two millennia later Nineveh was less than ruins... Much lesson for any country, there is in that.
Yeah -- that 2000 years is a long time for unmaintained buildings that were burnt with fire to still be standing. Not exactly a four leaf clover.

12 posted on 07/03/2019 10:54:47 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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