Nevermind the wall, this person's blog dates back to 2002. I think I have a blog/digital journal from around 2007 or so, but with HUGE gaps (years) where I lost interest. Pretty incredible in its own right
Both infrastructures are made to last.
Four strange places to see London's Roman Wall
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#72Note this is about the City of London, an entity much smaller and older than the modern city known as London. It's land area is about 3 km^2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_of_London Title should probably read "the City of London" rather than "London".
CGP Grey has an informative video on the City of London:
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#73There's also a bit of it in the WeWork on Leadenhall Street: https://www.wework.com/en-GB/buildings/77-leadenhall-street-...
Otherwise not a very good WeWork.
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#74On the subject of walls... Cortez reported seeing a wall blocking off an entire valley on his way to Tenochtitlan. One source reported the wall was 6 miles long, and yet it seems to have disappeared without a trace. And yet, Both the London Wall and Hadrian's Wall, though much older still have surviving ruins to this day.
I wonder if they exaggerated things to make their conquest seem even more impressive
Frankly, they didn't much need to do so. The empire they encountered was epic and amazing.
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#75Earlier quoted context omitted.
UK is a country made up of 4 countries, I guess we really like to annoy anyone trying to define a hierarchy
And the US the a sovereign state made up of 50 states. They used to be called that because they were independent countries There are other offenders, but the US and UK together are probably the main reason English no longer has concise but unambiguous way to refer to sovereign states
> They used to be called that because they were independent countries
The latter part is true of exactly one US state (Hawaii), but otherwise false. They are called that because they are political bodies capable of international relations. The 13 founding states were British colonies; Florida, New Mexico and Texas were famously Mexican and/or Spanish colonies, and the western half of the continental states were French colonies (though largely unexplored by France, so only nominally held).
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#76Earlier quoted context omitted.
New Orleans is a city, but City of New Orleans is a train
And the other terminus is Chicago, thus bringing us full circle. Line. Loop. Whatever.
The (US) Port of Toledo wants to join the discussion.
Even though a large part of its inhabitants don't realize it has a port.
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#78I can only imagine how many similar places to see ancient ruins in everyday context are in Rome. Or Athens.
Or many places in Europe, except where World Wars demolished them with artillery.
Edit: or Asia and Russia and South America...
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#79Earlier quoted context omitted.
There is a London Wall Walk, starting at the Tower of London. Text copied from the plaques at the postern: (thanks Google Lens) > The London Wall Walk follows the original line of the City Wall for much of its length, from the royal fortress of the Tower of London to the Museum of London, situated in the modern high-rise development of the Barbican. Between these two landmarks the Wall Walk passes surviving pieces of…
> The Walk is 134 miles (2.8km) Google Lens appears to have missed the point here.
Golf clap.
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#80I went to the UK this summer and followed this guide for seeing the various sections of the wall: https://londonmymind.com/london-wall-walk/
Unfortunately it didn't mention the section in that carpark! But I can attest that the section behind the Leonardo Royal Hotel is amazing. I also recommend the tower remains on the Barbican estate (and really, just wander around the Barbican for a while, it's a wild place in general).