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Four strange places to see London's Roman Wall
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#83Not bad engineering to make it through a handful of civil wars, a Blitz, and a couple thousand V-1 rockets mostly intact. You have to wonder how long all the steel and concrete that's been laid around the Thames from our civilization will last.
There's a Templar fortress in Lebanon that was occupied by militants a few years ago. 800 years old and still being used for its intended purpose.
There is a Templar church in London off Fleet Street as well, and again, being used as intended.
Plus the crypt of St Bride's has a Roman pavement to look at. Nice and quiet down there.
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#84> ground level then was a few metres lower than now What?! That's huge. What happened?
If you leave ground alone all sort of things grow on it or lay on it. Dirt, mud, leaves etc. Soil grows at about 1 mm per year. 1 meter in 1000 years. Historically cities were hit by floods and wars and new buildings were built on top of the foundations of old ones. We had an article about that church in Rome built over another roman church built over another roman church, etc. down to an old temple on a spring, or s…
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#85Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
You'll have to be more specific, there are at least two, a couple thousand miles apart.
I like Fairfax, VA. It is surrounded by, but not part of, Fairfax County, VA. Despite this, it still serves as the county seat.
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#86Nevermind 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
Looks like 2007 shows a 404, so maybe there are a few tiny gaps. Still, over 23 years of constant blogging is pretty awesome indeed. It’s in stark contrast to blogspot pages I’ve found that stopped in 2011
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#87Nevermind 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
I found that I generally ran out of things to talk about after a couple of years. I have more hobbies now so perhaps I could go a lot longer, but talking about those would make a feed nobody wants to follow.
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#88On 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.
Cut stone is worth stealing to make new buildings.
In 1491 the point is made that the Inca believed that they had been beaten by superior gods and so they bowed out. But he doesn’t really talk about what happened to the Aztecs. You steal stone from structures you don’t care about anymore.
Didn’t Mexico see more intensive colonization? Settlers would care less about existing structures. Maybe the Spaniards built missions out of the wall.
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#89Nevermind 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
I have one current blog, three blogs that are still hosted and one that is only in Internet Archive :)
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#90nice