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Huge Etruscan Road Brought To Light
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| 6-16-2004
| Rossella Lorenzi
Posted on 06/17/2004 3:38:42 PM PDT by blam
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To: RightWhale
I'll bet you're right. There must've been considerable noise, too.
To: RightWhale
The inscription says, "Do you want fries with that?...Drive ahead, please."
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posted on
06/17/2004 4:54:14 PM PDT
by
paulat
To: paulat
...also reminds me of the toll booth in "Blazing Saddles"....
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posted on
06/17/2004 4:55:04 PM PDT
by
paulat
To: Clara Lou
Cobblestone roads, iron horseshoes, and iron rims on the chariot wheels = considerable noise and flying debris. They wouldn't be going much faster than a trot on long trips, that wouldn't be so bad, but around town chariots were a terror. The stories from Pompeii tell of pedestrians leaping for their lives to get out of the way of the young men in their galloping chariots.
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posted on
06/17/2004 5:02:07 PM PDT
by
RightWhale
(Destroy the dark; restore the light)
To: blam
:-) Mary Ludwig finds it all fascinating, too!
To: blam
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posted on
06/17/2004 6:05:55 PM PDT
by
Spirited
To: ValerieUSA
I'm with you, Val... Where did the lake go?
I've tried Googling "6th"+"1850"+" lake"+"Italy" and got nothing to help.
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posted on
06/17/2004 6:15:32 PM PDT
by
sonofatpatcher2
(Love & a .45-- What more could you want, campers? };^)
To: RightWhale
The stories from Pompeii tell of pedestrians leaping for their lives to get out of the
way of the young men in their galloping chariots.
Historians aren't too far off the mark when they call us "Modern Romans"!
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posted on
06/17/2004 6:22:16 PM PDT
by
VOA
To: blam
Many private chariots had a rudamentary suspension that isolated the passenger area from the suspension via leather straps. Others used leather mesh in place of a hard floor to cushion a standing rider. Some combined both.
IIRC, fixed suspension chariots were pretty much only used in warfare or racing (where unpredictable bouncing could be dangerous). The ride in a leather-shocked chariot wouldn't have been perfectly smooth, but it wouldn't have jarred any teeth loose either.
To: ValerieUSA; sonofatpatcher2; blam
The lake was drained in 1850, part of a major campaign to rid Tuscany of malaria. The Arno river has flooded a number of times, sometimes dangerously, most recently in, hmm, late 1940s or early 1950s. 500 years ago, Leonardo da Vinci came up with a canal idea which would have controlled Arno flooding, provided agricultural irrigation (and an income source from same), permitted Florence to become a sea power, and cut off Pisa's water supply during one of the intermittent wars between those two cities. An idiot relative of some politician was chosen as contractor, and he screwed it up so bad that the project was ruined.
Thanks Val for pingin' me here.
George W. Bush will be reelected by a margin of at least ten per cent
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posted on
06/18/2004 8:48:47 AM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
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To: blam; FairOpinion; Ernest_at_the_Beach; StayAt HomeMother; 24Karet; 3AngelaD; ...
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05/18/2005 5:05:40 PM PDT
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SunkenCiv
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To: paulat
...also reminds me of the toll booth in "Blazing Saddles".... "Somebody's got to go back and get a shitload of dimes!"
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posted on
05/18/2005 11:40:21 PM PDT
by
dread78645
(Sorry Mr. Franklin, We couldn't keep it.)
To: blam
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11/27/2009 7:40:45 PM PST
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SunkenCiv
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To: ValerieUSA
I htink of armies in chariots, not regular commercial traffic. Riding horseback would be preferable,
Stirrups did not appear until after the fall of the western empire. Riding without them is doable, but getting on the beast is tougher, as is staying there. Chariots are faster than a ridden horse, and you do have something to hang onto.
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posted on
09/28/2013 8:27:43 PM PDT
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Nepeta
To: Nepeta
I bet there was plenty of commercial traffic unless the armies needed to march
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09/28/2013 8:29:59 PM PDT
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GeronL
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01/28/2015 1:45:01 PM PST
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SunkenCiv
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