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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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To: Roccus
There is a difference in treating animals with some respect and not inflict pain and stress when it can be avoided and human rights.
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posted on
05/01/2006 5:48:47 AM PDT
by
S0122017
To: Betis70
Im not sure what 'concreted over' means. I take it they did not pour concrete over the actual ruins?
In any case, i was in Italy several times, and well.. There are soooo many excavated ruins that 'museums' are stacking blocks, pillars and statues next and on top of each other outside the buildings.
They dig artefacts up, yet fail to store them correctly so now they dissolve in the nowadays acid rain. And those are the lucky ruins, cause there are many that are simply abandoned completely.
So agree with you. If you can't take care of what you are digging up, better just let it rest.
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posted on
05/01/2006 6:01:29 AM PDT
by
S0122017
To: S0122017
You're right. I went back to find the article that I was referring to about granting apes "human rights" so I could send you to it. To my humiliation, it was a John Semmens piece and it was satire. I have to remember to check out the authors of what is posted here at FR.
}:^0
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posted on
05/01/2006 6:56:14 AM PDT
by
Roccus
To: gd124
Good for them. Do it again!!!! Now, if this had been a habitat for the spotted owl or snail darter then the bulldozers would never have gone forward. In 2000 years the scientist can lament when they dig up a 2007 Nissan and it gets sent to the crusher. It'll be worth the same as some dead guy's community bath tub... LOL
To: popdonnelly
"There is nothing more beautiful in this world than a parking lot." Yep. People travel all over the World to photograph them.
Exactly. Because if the parking lot weren't there, they'd have to travel 50 miles outside of it, then be bussed on an inconvenient, filthy, infrequent mode of public transportation to within 5 miles of it and then they'd have to hike it into the spot and by that time, it's too dark for pictures.
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posted on
05/01/2006 7:46:38 AM PDT
by
AmishDude
(AmishDude, servant of the dark lord Xenu.)
To: gd124
The commercial future of his city would have been assured by tourists if they had reconstructed such a wonderful site.
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posted on
05/01/2006 9:00:33 AM PDT
by
wildbill
To: gd124
Socialists are as evil as Islamists.
To: gd124
When I read things like this I get a sinking feeling and it only re-inforces that believe in conspiracy for some Secret Society does not want something to surface!
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posted on
05/02/2006 12:02:25 PM PDT
by
restornu
(An ungodly man diggeth up evil: and in his lips there is as a burning fire. - Prov.16: 27)
To: gd124
Not that I endorse losing ancient treasures like this, but this is the kind of thing that happens when your empire fails.
Roman cities have been getting paved over for a long time now. It's just the way it is. Regretable, that this town didn't have the foresight to see the value in this discovery, but value is relative.
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posted on
05/02/2006 12:06:04 PM PDT
by
American_Centurion
(No, I don't trust the government to automatically do the right thing.)
To: Mo1
What the hell does that have to do with this thread There is no such thing as a stupid question. Sometimes, however, it is a case of, 'if you have to ask it, you will never understand the answer.
The obvious 'connection' is that politicians everywhere are more concerned with their own comforts, perks, and agendas, than with the public good they are supposedly charged with upholding.
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posted on
05/04/2006 3:49:35 PM PDT
by
ApplegateRanch
(DeportaciĆ³n por los todos ilegales ahora: Si, se puede!)
To: Mad_Tom_Rackham
To a socialist, there is no past, only tomorow.
Your statement would definitely hurt the feelings of the socialists who run Barcelona. They won't let you do a damned thing to your (privately owned) home - and i'm not just talking about major structural work - without jumping through a series of hoops, submitting lots of expensive plans and having more expensive studies done if it's anywhere near the historic center of town. Yes I know the idea is to collect taxes and fees but it's under the guise of "historic preservation". Also, the historic city of Tarragona is another similar case where developers and construction companies got tired of unearthing something historic everytime the put a shovel in the ground and waiting for the gov't to come and evaluate it.
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posted on
05/10/2006 3:30:21 AM PDT
by
freedom moose
(has de cultivar el que sembres)
To: PioneerDrive
Hi,
That story about an ancient city comes from a Creationist writer, and as a Floridian I can say it is obviously nonsense. No such city exists, and digging a canal anywhere, and definitely Florida, wouldn't go 'far below sea level'.
To: gd124
They discovered a well-preserved Roman forum, bath house, gymnasium and temple But other than that and the aqueducts, what did the Romans ever do for them?
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posted on
05/30/2006 10:47:39 AM PDT
by
dfwgator
(Florida Gators - 2006 NCAA Men's Basketball Champions)
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07/21/2012 12:54:33 PM PDT
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SunkenCiv
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03/22/2020 8:23:47 PM PDT
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SunkenCiv
(Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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