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To: blam

and all this in a period where the speed of bureaucratic functioning and of military response rattled along at 45 kilometres a day,

Not true. Rome could pass messages from one end of the empire to another in a matter of days.

4 posted on 07/16/2007 5:37:05 PM PDT by saganite (Billions and billions and billions----and that's just the NASA budget!)

To: saganite

How?

7 posted on 07/16/2007 5:43:01 PM PDT by scrabblehack

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