> -----Oorspronkelijk bericht----- > Van: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Verzonden: Monday, October 01, 2001 5:17 PM > Aan: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Onderwerp: RE: Your papers, please . .
> > Taliban delenda est! > > Which translates into English as...? > "The Taliban must be destroyed." It's a reference to Cato the Elder, > who ended every speech he made in the Roman Senate (translated, and > from memory, so I might be off by a little bit) "and after all of these > things, Carthage must be destroyed." <snipped rest of explanation> > This is a non-trivial piece of European history, Jeroen. You have > occasionally commented on the ignorance of Americans of history and the > world around them. If John and I (both products, I believe, of the > American public school system - I certainly am) knew the reference > (from European history, no less) and you didn't, you might want to > rethink that position. Blame the Dutch school system. My last History class ended when I was about 14 years old (and that was 20 years ago). My History classes did hardly cover the Roman Empire. I do not believe they even went further back than World War II, with Dutch History being the only exception. Jeroen _________________________________________________________________________ Wonderful World of Brin-L Website: http://go.to/brin-l
