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Subject: [Leica] Romans - Along the Sudbury River
From: Jim at hemenway.com (Jim Hemenway)
Date: Thu Apr 24 11:28:37 2008
References: <480F162B.30900@hemenway.com> <480F2843.5060206@tele2.fr>

Philippe:

Thanks for the kind words and for looking.

 From your astute question I take it that you already know that the 
Romans came to America even before either Lief Ericson in 1000 CE, or 
Christopher Columbus in 1492 CE.

But actually, this bridge was built by the Etruscans who arrived here in 
approximately 10 BCE in a boat like this:
<http://vector-images.com/clipart.php?id=7723>
   or: http://tinyurl.com/4f9p5m

Part of the crew were Greeks though, because the Etruscans loved baklava 
after dinner and needed the Greeks to prepare it... along with an early 
version of moussaka on Sunday afternoons.

A little know fact is that both the Etruscans and Greeks in the party 
were absorbed by the Algonquin native Americans.  Their descendants were 
eventually defeated by the American colonists and a lot of lobsterbacks 
in the French-Indian war (1754-1763 BC).

Several years later, England desired to retrieve some of the vast 
amounts of money spent in prosecuting that war... so they hit the 
Americans with the Stamp Act which was violently opposed in the colonies 
and led to our Revolutionary War:
<http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h642.html>

So, we've come full circle in my little story about the Old Stone 
Bridge, because as I mentioned in an earlier message, this bridge was 
used by General Knox, a bookseller who actually read his military 
strategy books:
<http://www.massmoments.org/moment.cfm?mid=29>
   or: http://tinyurl.com/bvg4b

Jim, "But what do I know, I went to Art School" Hemenway


P.S. We still don't like to pay taxes, especially those of us of the 
Republican persuasion, (not me).

Jim


Philippe AMARD wrote:

> Fine set - did the Romans build it?
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> phx
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Replies: Reply from philippe.amard at tele2.fr (Philippe AMARD) ([Leica] Romans - Along the Sudbury River)
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