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To: Tarheel
Addenda: Tripoli gets its name from the Roman's Regio Tripoitana, Three Cities. Libya didn't exist at the time. There were city states. Outside the cities and ports was desert. (Actually, things haven't changed.)
925 posted on 07/22/2006 11:56:18 AM PDT by BIGLOOK (Keelhauling is a sensible solution to mutiny.)
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To: BIGLOOK
Outside the cities and ports was desert. (Actually, things haven't changed.)

I'll vouch for that...you don't have to go more than a few miles inland to start expecting to see that pair of jeeps the Rat Patrol used.

931 posted on 07/22/2006 12:02:20 PM PDT by HiJinx (Have you hugged a soldier today? Try it, you'll like it.)
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Aloha.


972 posted on 07/22/2006 12:37:33 PM PDT by TASMANIANRED (The Internet is the samizdat of liberty..)
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