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Subject: [Leica] Romans - Along the Sudbury River
From: Jim at hemenway.com (Jim Hemenway)
Date: Fri Apr 25 11:23:53 2008
References: <480F162B.30900@hemenway.com> <480F2843.5060206@tele2.fr> <4810D152.2040807@hemenway.com> <4811C8A9.4040602@tele2.fr>

Thanks, I had a little bit of fun writing it. ;-)

We still have taxes, (aka tolls) on many bridges and highways, but I 
don't think we've ever gone back to them for entering cities or crossing 
borders as was the practice during the era of "Articles of 
Confederation" and before the Constitution was written and adopted.

Jim


Philippe AMARD wrote:

> Nice history digest Jim.
> 
> When in Rome pay as the Romans
> 
> did you also have taxes levied on crossing bridges, or entering cities, 
> or going from one borough to another? We used to.
> Long lost with Europe and the WTO, and a good thing on some occasions. .
> 
> As to paying taxes, I do wish I paid more, which for me would mean I had 
> earned more ;-)
> 
> phx
> 
> 
> Jim Hemenway wrote:
> 
>> Philippe:
>>
>> Thanks for the kind words and for looking.
>>
>> From your astute question I take it that you already know that the 
>> Romans came to America even before either Lief Ericson in 1000 CE, or 
>> Christopher Columbus in 1492 CE.
>>
>> But actually, this bridge was built by the Etruscans who arrived here 
>> in approximately 10 BCE in a boat like this:
>> <http://vector-images.com/clipart.php?id=7723>
>>   or: http://tinyurl.com/4f9p5m
>>
>> Part of the crew were Greeks though, because the Etruscans loved 
>> baklava after dinner and needed the Greeks to prepare it... along with 
>> an early version of moussaka on Sunday afternoons.
>>
>> A little know fact is that both the Etruscans and Greeks in the party 
>> were absorbed by the Algonquin native Americans.  Their descendants 
>> were eventually defeated by the American colonists and a lot of 
>> lobsterbacks in the French-Indian war (1754-1763 BC).
>>
>> Several years later, England desired to retrieve some of the vast 
>> amounts of money spent in prosecuting that war... so they hit the 
>> Americans with the Stamp Act which was violently opposed in the 
>> colonies and led to our Revolutionary War:
>> <http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h642.html>
>>
>> So, we've come full circle in my little story about the Old Stone 
>> Bridge, because as I mentioned in an earlier message, this bridge was 
>> used by General Knox, a bookseller who actually read his military 
>> strategy books:
>> <http://www.massmoments.org/moment.cfm?mid=29>
>>   or: http://tinyurl.com/bvg4b
>>
>> Jim, "But what do I know, I went to Art School" Hemenway
>>
>>
>> P.S. We still don't like to pay taxes, especially those of us of the 
>> Republican persuasion, (not me).
>>
>> Jim
>>
>>
>> Philippe AMARD wrote:
>>
>>> Fine set - did the Romans build it?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> phx
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
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