10 posted on 08/24/2016 4:35:50 PM PDT by dynachrome
(When an empire dies, you are left with vast monuments in front of which peasants squat to defecate)
11 posted on 08/25/2016 12:21:09 PM PDT by Tamar1973
("Sometimes the only choices you have are bad ones but you still have to choose."The 12th Dr. Who)