while reading my 1891 encyclopedia britannica

[pansypoo53219]

i found another OCCUPATION that relates to today. and boy does history repeat!

i figure it was worthy to post here as well as my blog. pardon all the history. (and i edited out some of the tedious)

BRITANNIA- Julius Caesar invades in 55 bc. before Julius, only a few mentions by greeks. earliest notice is in herodotus 450 bc., who mentions the tin islands and then confesses his ignorance of them. Tin Islands likely cornwall and scilly, which were known to phaeician traders.
aristotle, writing around 350 writes of the british isles by name-"beyond the pillars of hercules(straights of gibraltar) the ocean flows round the earth, and in it are 2 very large ilands called british. albion and lerne, lying beyond Kelto."
name of etymology of britannica uncertain. most accepted root (brith), in the practice of staining body with wood.(blue!)
earliest people, the celts, but a race of people earlier. Celts divided into gaelic and the cymric. adding ancient gauls, more to cymric.
j said they shaved all their body hair, except for head and lips, AND polygamous. mentions druids.
cassivellaunus chosen to lead the brits, chief north of the thames, resisted J, but no match against the romans.
Claudius, on accent in 41 ad, determined to finally collect the tribute, augustus intended. Auilus Plantius was sent in 43 ad w/ 4 legions. Claudius joined him and brits soon subdued(iWaq!).
Boedicea, queen of iceni, took advantage to revolt. the roman colony of camulodunium taken and sacked. Suetonius hastened from the west and defeated the britons followed by massacre of 80,000 brits.
later roman rule less harsh and its civilization spread.
Agricola becomes Gov in 78. after invading farther north. in 84 recalled to rome and the forts he built in on the north border left unmanned .
in 120, hadrian visited and built rampart between tyne and solway frith, for checking n tribes. 139, wall of antonine,built by lollius urbicus, along line of agricola's forts between forth and clyde.
205, emperor Severus comes to lead an expedition against caledonian tribes. he dispersed them as he invaded, but never a battle. no substancial gains and 50,000 romans lost(how many injured amputees we got?). built new wall along hadrian's and died at york in 211.
roman empire now in a state of decay(BUSHWORLD!) and distant officials tempted by its weakness.
287 title of emperor assumed by carausius, a man of low birth, native of mnapia, the commander of the english channel protecting the coast from frisian pirates. 7 years later assasinated by allectus. emp constantius led expedition into caledonia and died in york in 306(waz up with york???)
soon picts and scots were invading from north. in 367, the P+ Ss overan all of england. rome under theodosus and maximimus made moves to regain(SURGE!)
by 388, england lost. still there feebly. 410 occupation formally terminated in LETTER. (pack up your bags-we're out of here!)

how are we gonna leave iWaq. and will it take centuries to fucking get a clue?


so far in reading almost 4 EBs. a 1903 F and 2 1/2 A's, and B up to this. i have yet to find an occupation that worked. lots of shitty rulers tho.
lot of hubris and stupidity.

[babylonsister]

1. No offense, but are you bored or are you a student of history?

:hi:

[karlrschneider]

2. History reprised by e e cummings as told by Hunter S. Thompson.

:D

[kestrel91316]

3. Thanks. I wondering if it was just me that thought the OP a bit muddled.

[madrchsod]

4. Boedicea,

would have totally kicked the romans ass if she should have adapted to the formations the romans used to against her..

[pansypoo53219]

5. yeah. hit her twice.

had her own entry.

and i just happen to want to read this set i found. it started with the F. first entry was FAMILY and it had a reference to THRALS, which had just been on star trek. obviously THEY knew their history as well.

i must say i am leaning towards reincarnation tho. gotta hope all those poor africans are reincarnated nazis.