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Gents,

Stumbled upon this delightful page yesterday while reading the NYT. (Hmmm, seem to be doing a fair amount of stumbling lately. Should probably get that checked.  )

Here is the link:

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/24/travel/rome-ancient-aqueducts.html

Reminds me of that scene in THE LIFE OF BRIAN, where the rebels are debating the topic of Roman contributions to their society.

Cheers,
Chris

You know, with all this reintroduction of species hunted to extinction in the Middle Ages going on in the UK, I wonder whether they will consider wyrms?  These seem to all have been hunted down by over-zealous heroes for the crime of lurking in watery places.  You can see why Nessie remains elusive.

Quote from: Imperial Dave on Today at 07:06:01 AMI recommend watching Ivor the Engine

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Classic. 

I recommend watching Ivor the Engine

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I like the way dragons are described as " creatures of myth", as if the sentence should finish with "or so anyone who still owns one would have you believe".

Although born and raised in Wales I now live 40km due south of my birthplace in Somerset which also features a dragon on its flag (Often called a wyvern here but the distinction is pedantry*). The flag was chosen only this century by a vote run by the Somerset Gazette. It does however closely resemble the device used by the council for over a century except that the council Wyvern holds a mace which had been used as a proxy by some for many years.  The continuing appeal of dragons is clearly not a niche one as the vote certainly drew interest and three of the top four designs in the poll featured a dragon/wyvern.
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As the pose more easily fits onto a shield I used this design as the basis of the shield on the front of my knightly orders.

* I am sure I was told many years ago that a dragon had four legs and a wyvern two but this does not seem to work with representations seen – perhaps another of those logical points that doesn't actually stack up  - like the number of equine hooves on the floor of mounted heroes being an indication of whether or not they died in battle.

Yes, love the artwork

I like the bit about Alex having an instinctive grasp of what his army was capable of and being able to make the correct rational decisions in mid-battle.

...that elephant looks genuinely worried by meeting a more scary beast than him/herself !! 🫣
Lovely bit of medieval art...👍🏼

I merely comment that we are still discussing Alexander over two thousand years after he died. I doubt anybody will remember many of his detractors in another two decades