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I thought it was pretty cool myself. I just happened to see the sign as my wife and I were driving past and decided to check it out. I had to drive through the village and up a goat trail to get to the parking area and then it was another 400m or so to the head of the aqueduct.
From the information on the tables the mixed tufa and limestone of the local geology purifies the water. The aqueduct essentially acts as a focused seep for most of it's length. It was very specific that the aqueduct is not connected to a spring but naturally occurring groundwater seeps in and then flows downhill through the pipe. Apparently the volume of water is not huge but enough to supply one domus and outbuildings.
I went to Dresden a few years ago but we did not go into the Sachsische Schweiz. I have been trying to talk my wife into going but she does not like going into the old DDR.
The latter can actually help inform us about the former, but the latter can also lead us to nitpick over unimportant minutiae.
That is a point that can be made again and again. The modern focus on micro-history has led to a loss of focus on the wider issues in history and not just warfare. Modern historians are so knee deep in figuring out the stories of individual actors that they tend to ignore the sweep of history around them and how that sweep literally swept the actors up and bore them along powerless to affect the broader events. That is why previous historians focused on great men and great events; they give a better understanding of the why of history. Individual stories are neat and interesting but they rarely help us understand the why.
I always thought the fuss about the name of the nurse and sailor in Times Square was silly. Does it really matter if we know their names and why they were kissing?I suppose their is some trivial value (as in trivial pursuit) in knowing the name but I don't understand the fuss. Does knowing the name make the photo more profound? I think it does not.
Th best theory I have read is that being out in the cold and wet actually does weaken your immune system to the point where virse and such can take hold. Now, ask me if I believe it.I have spent so much time wet, cold, and miserable in my military career without getting sick that I am not sure i believe it.
China does seem to be playing aggressor pretty good in Asia don't they? Don't forget the antics of NK, a Chinese satellite. It all adds up to an unsettled world.A Russian-Chinese Axis presents a different set of strategic issues than did Germany-Japan in the 30s & 40s. For one thing Russia and China form a contiguous territorial bloc giving them interior lines in any conflict. For another, both Russia and China are nuclear powers, which makes confronting them with military power more perilous, especially if they start to lose.Interesting times indeed.
Yes, I agree with you. I thought it was called the Great Eight. I guess I haven't been paying enough attention to hear that it was changed to the Elite Eight. Who knows? The change may have been made by CBS Sports, which controls the television rights to the games. Apparently, other TV stations can't even show highlights until the day after the game(!).
Good thing I don't care about Basketball. A couple of friends of mine are going crazy on Facebook right now and all I do is laugh. 😀
So bad, ask Vladimir Vladimirovich P what he thinks about it ::) Is guilt (emotion) part of Western civilization only?I wonder why everything seems to be bad when it's about westerners …
Because Westerners have shown themselves to be the only cultural group that actually cares if the former supposedly oppressed peoples make noise. When was the last time you heard Japan apologize for anything they did in WWII and compare that with the German tendency to fall all over themselves any time someone whispers Nazi somewhere. People make noise about westerners and the west because they know some soft-headed moron is going to start agitating.
Yes, it was in a woodline about 2km from the current border. I also marked them and told the fire department in the nearest village. They thanked me and had me pinpoint the location on a map so they could contact the German Army and have them go out and recover them. It is my understanding that most people who live along the old battle line avoid the area of the forest with the most foxholes because of the amount of UXO's in here.
