April 17, 2018
The Appian Way, Via Appia, is a wonder to the world. Itself it stretches just short of 40 miles. But it was the road that began the first official universal transportation system in antiquity. It connected Britain to Mesopotamia, from the Danube to Gibraltar and from the Alps to northern Africa. It was […]
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April 12, 2018
May 19th, 1798, 16,000 seamen, 38,000 combat troops, all packed on 13 ships of the line, 42 frigates, 160 support ships, and none of them know where the Hell they are headed. It was his fiercely charismatic personality that made this possible in the age of Napoleon. Most people would wonder why the […]
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