On Friday, August 25, 2017 at 11:23:26 PM UTC+5:30, MRAB wrote: > On 2017-08-25 15:40, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote: > > On Thu, 24 Aug 2017 21:47:41 -0700 (PDT), Rustom Mody declaimed the > > following: > > > > > >>This was true of Britain 100 years ago > >>It was true of Rome 1000 years ago > > > > Rome was still a problem in 1017? That's only 50 years away from the > > Battle of Hastings and the Norman conquest. > > > Well, the Byzantine Empire still existed. > > > Rome was basically washed up 1500 years ago. The first crusade fell > > about 900 years ago. > >
I meant to say: Rome → 2000 years [And Denis I dont see your mails (thanks to your settings?) unless someone else quotes them] -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list