Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/01/05

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Subject: [Leica] Walls that work
From: s.dimitrov at charter.net (slobodan Dimitrov)
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 2010 06:11:19 -0800
References: <6a7544a61001041410r234baf13mfd056d2f2ca7d465@mail.gmail.com> <4D409598-E0F9-4F28-A9FC-BCB50F9CF1AC@aotera.org>
 
Come to think of it, the same happened in Europe. Britain's last  
battle with Napoleon was to eradicate his gene pool within the  
Continental nobility with theirs, through Victoria.
S.d.


On Jan 5, 2010, at 5:58 AM, Spencer Cheng wrote:

> The Chinese solved the problem ultimately by absorbing the invaders  
> (Mongols, Manchus) into it's gene pool rather than relying on the  
> very expensive Great Wall. Much more effective than any wall when  
> one has time and a very large populace.
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