I'll Show You Mine/You Show Me Yours - Su 12/8

Annie Deighnaugh

4 years ago

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Today is National Pretend to be a Time Traveler Day...this takes me to the days of the Roman Empire ... how about you?

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Annie Deighnaugh
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lgmd_gaz
4 years ago
This is as far back in time as I can travel. Me and the family cannon in 1941
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Elizabeth
4 years ago
My father is pictured in this school photo from about 1917.

Woody Allen and John Lennon clearly time traveled to his school!
bob_cville
4 years ago
My wife and I visited the Pont du Gard that Annie shows. It is a ancient Roman aqueduct for routing water to the city of Nimes. They pointed out that the upstream end of the support columns are v-shaped, like the prow of a ship, and said that the height to which they were thusly built was based on the Roman engineers' estimate of the highest likely flood that would occur on the river.

Reportedly a few years before we visited there was a massive flood. (You can see the height of the flood by looking at the opposite river bank that was stripped of vegetation up to that height.) The flood was large enough that entire houses were washed off their foundations, and carried downstream. When the houses reached this ancient aqueduct they were smashed to flinders and the time-worn columns stood proudly, stoically, unfazed and unaffected.

So for my time travel day I'd like to imagine bringing that long ago engineer to the present, to see how his work has endured.
OklaMoni
4 years ago

How about a canal bridge over a river?

in France
nicole___
4 years ago

A time and place where dragons were part of the culture.
Lars
4 years ago
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Hadrian's Villa
rob333 (zone 7b)
4 years ago
Son is on winter break this upcoming weekend, and I told him to leave me what he wanted on the grocery list when he was here for Thanksgiving.

We just had a little too much fun with this over text. His reply to my having only sent the picture was "Up a creek?" What is crossed off are jelly and jam
Jasdip
4 years ago
Today I'm decorating "Rudy" and listening to Christmas music.
DawnInCal
4 years ago
I'm off to solve the mystery of Stonehenge:
OutsidePlaying
4 years ago
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4 years ago
Outside - didn't it seem like there was an old stone church and celtic crosses just about everywhere in Ireland?

These are beehive huts from the Dingle Peninsula, dating from the 8th to the 12 th centuries.
janey_alabama
4 years ago
That was interesting, Bob, thank you.
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4 years ago
These pre-historic looking birds are living in the San Diego Zoo present day.
rob333 (zone 7b)
4 years ago
Here's a link to the Polar Express that we were quoting

https://www.quotes.net/mquote/124418
bob_cville
4 years ago
A couple of my pictures of the Pont du Gard

This one shows the shape of the base of the columns.

Although this image of the downstream side shows the support columns similarly pointed.

And this is the Arena of Nîmes. The city to which the above aqueductwas built to bring water to.

And the inside view showing it is still being used