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Spain destroys lost Roman city for a car park
The Sunday Times ^
| April 30, 2006
| Jon Clarke
Posted on 04/30/2006 4:38:05 PM PDT by gd124
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I guess local governments the same everywhere.
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posted on
04/30/2006 4:38:09 PM PDT
by
gd124
To: gd124
They pave paradise and put up a parking lot.
To: gd124
What a shame. That happens when the mentally challenged make decisions.
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posted on
04/30/2006 4:42:17 PM PDT
by
Dante3
To: SunkenCiv; blam
AIIIIIIEEEEEEEEEEE! Ping.
To: gd124
Juan Wic, the mayor, who is responsible for the car park project, said he was happy to have kept one of his main election pledges. He said it was essential for the commercial future of the square and city Thank god he got rid of that 2000+ year old architecture. What an eyesore that would have been.
To: gd124
For some reason, the politicians here think it is more important to park their own cars. It simply does not make sense. Didn't we just hear something very similar last week about keeping illegals so congress would have well maintained golf courses?
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posted on
04/30/2006 4:44:44 PM PDT
by
mtbopfuyn
(I think the border is kind of an artificial barrier - San Antonio councilwoman Patti Radle)
To: gd124
"Juan Wic, the mayor, who is responsible for the car park project, said he was happy to have kept one of his main election pledges."
Dead Italians don't vote, living Spaniards with cars do.
To: gd124
OK, I'd ask the burning question.
What would we learn from this site that already has not been discovered?
I certainly believe we should preserve ancient sites that would add to our fundamental knowledge of the Roman empire we don't know.
I find it sort of bizarre that people in 4,500 AD would find Tampa, Fl or any other city so interesting as to want to preserve it.
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posted on
04/30/2006 4:46:04 PM PDT
by
Popman
("What I was doing wasn't living, it was dying. I really think God had better plans for me.")
To: gd124
Ah, the Punic Curse! Roman civilization is defeated by the Philistines.
To: gd124
"The socialist council says that had it not dug up the main square, Plaza de Espana, to build the car park in 1998, the remains would never have been found. But it insists the town must press ahead with the new car park."
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posted on
04/30/2006 4:50:25 PM PDT
by
blam
To: gd124
Simply barbaric. No other way to describe this travesty.
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posted on
04/30/2006 4:50:47 PM PDT
by
America's Resolve
(Illegal Amnesty in 86 and 06, so expect more in 2026, 2046, 2066 and 2086. Doom for America!)
To: gd124
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posted on
04/30/2006 4:52:22 PM PDT
by
xcamel
(Press to Test, Release to Detonate)
To: Popman
"I find it sort of bizarre that people in 4,500 AD would find Tampa, Fl or any other city so interesting as to want to preserve it."
2006...New Orleans.
To: gd124
Don't it always seem to go that you don't know what you got till it's gone.
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posted on
04/30/2006 4:54:12 PM PDT
by
3catsanadog
(When anything goes, everything does.)
To: gd124
Can you not see the great value and pricelessness of a typical car park? A new car park is surely more valuable and satisfying than the old run of the mill, one of a kind lost city from the Roman Empire. /sarc
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posted on
04/30/2006 4:54:43 PM PDT
by
bwc
(Big Centralized Government is turning us into just another clone of the European States)
To: CWOJackson
Especially the Lower Nine.
To: gd124
My reaction also. I'm sure they posted notice the ancient city would be destroyed, so anyone could object - In an unlit basement behind a door that said "beware of the leopard."
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posted on
04/30/2006 4:55:23 PM PDT
by
Williams
To: Popman
What would we learn from this site that already has not been discovered? How can we say up front what we'd learn about a dead civilization? That's a kooky premise from the git-go.
We have plenty of records from our civilization. Typing is a lot easier than etching into stone. There are not all that many records of what the Romans were like, let alone actual physical artifacts.
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posted on
04/30/2006 4:55:39 PM PDT
by
America's Resolve
(Illegal Amnesty in 86 and 06, so expect more in 2026, 2046, 2066 and 2086. Doom for America!)
To: gd124
Man, they sure are lucky that some priceless Iraqi artifacts weren't harmed!
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posted on
04/30/2006 4:56:18 PM PDT
by
HitmanLV
("5 Minute Penalty for #40, Ann Theresa Calvello!" - RIP 1929-2006)
To: CWOJackson
2006...New Orleans.Touché
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posted on
04/30/2006 4:56:53 PM PDT
by
Popman
("What I was doing wasn't living, it was dying. I really think God had better plans for me.")
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