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To: SunkenCiv
1500 light years away! The light we are seeing today occurred about when Nineveh (Babylonian capital) was captured, thus marking the end of the Assyrian Empire. The number of miles are so big, they are even more difficult to grasp than Obama’s debt.
3 posted on 02/24/2012 4:27:38 AM PST by econjack
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To: econjack
1500 light years away! The light we are seeing today occurred about when Nineveh (Babylonian capital) was captured, thus marking the end of the Assyrian Empire.

Wasn't that was more like about 600 BC, i.e. 2600 years ago?

8 posted on 02/24/2012 11:20:33 AM PST by GATOR NAVY
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To: econjack; GATOR NAVY

Well, 412 AD, so, late in the classic Roman Empire.


11 posted on 02/24/2012 5:13:48 PM PST by SunkenCiv (FReep this FReepathon!)
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