Thomas_More
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Albion was the Britons’ (the Welsh) name for the whole island.
Bede the Saxon is really still the finest source for information on the British Isles.
Scottish nationalism has no bearing on the Wall.
Not only were there no Scots in Caledonia until the 5th century,
but the “Scots” of today are of Anglo-Saxon and Norman ancestry.The whole thing was a statement of might and of terror.
A recent documentary i recall spoke of the Roman terror raids on Pictish tribes, slaughtering large numbers of people. The Antonine Wall was an earthwork which was booby trapped with lethal stakes for impaling unwary people, even after the Romans had left it so.
The Wall itself was used to police a large area and it ruthlessly curtailed movement which had been free and peaceful too, and not just warlike. The northern tribes might have hoped it might “keep the Romans out” instead of themselves, but no such luck. The Romans raided numerous times, sowing havoc and fear.” Schadenfreude is a hollow type of happiness.”
Ambrose Bierce defines happiness as the feeling that comes over us upon witnessing another’s misfortune.
More talk of sending troops to Ukraine.
No, i don’t believe that, because after a nuclear war any reconstruction would be impossible.
Maoists believe a nuclear holocaust to be inevitable.
I read on today’s news that turmoil has begun again in Georgia, similar to Ukraine in 2014. The same pattern could repeat itself, if NATO wants Georgia.
