Today in 117AD Hadrian, the adopted son of Trajan, became the new Roman Emperor. Trajan had ruled for nearly twenty years and had enlarged the Empire greatly. Hadrian in his twenty one year rule would be just as good for Rome. He left behind four great building works, which remain today.
The first was to rebuild Agrippa’s Pantheon, adding the 141ft diameter Dome. It has massive bronze doors and now a church, has buried two of Italy’s kings and the artist Raphael amongst others.
On the river Tiber is the Castel San Angelo, another stone dome building, this one built as his own tomb. It has been used as a fortress by more than one Pope when Rome has been threatened. It housed Pope Clement VII when the forces of the (Spanish)Holy Roman Empire sacked the city in 1527. It is well worth a visit if you ever go to Rome. A coffee from the battlements’ cafe’ is a good end to a walk around the military museum it is now.
The third monument is the beautiful Villa at Tivoli.
Lastly is the wall he had constructed in the North of England to keep out those pesky Picts(Scots). It was 15ft high and stretched 73 miles from coast tocoast and there was a fort every five miles.
Hadrian had been unwell for some time and despite seeking death and requesting it of his adopted son Pius, who refused to aid him, he died aged 62 in his villa at Baie on the Bay of Naples.
John Brown was executed today in 1859: the rest is history.
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I’m curious as to why so many people thought he was a bad guy.
Why all the “good riddance?”
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Sounds like he was a bad-ass who stood up for what he believed in and wasn’t afraid to fight, kill and die for it. I like a man with balls like that.
Cool. Thanks for the story.
The first person your hero “John Brown” killed was a -free- black man, who was trying to stop John from heisting a train.
Whatever you choose to believe - John Brown was an idiot.
Promoting freedom of slaves is one thing; But promoting slave rebellions is quite literally something else. Slave Rebellions back then were viewed as horrendously as School Shootings are today, with lots of -innocent- people getting killed in the process. Much like John Browns first kill…
John Brown’s own friends knew this, hence why they chose NOT to support him for the most part in his cause.
His death was a fitting end to his life of stupidity and promotion of violence.
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Unlike most other Northerners, who advocated peaceful resistance to the pro-slavery faction, Brown demanded violent action in response to Southern aggression. He believed he was the instrument of God’s wrath in punishing men for the sin of owning slaves.
What a clown.
Again - Good Riddance.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pottawatomie_Massacre
There you can read about him dragging people out of their beds at night, and hacked them to death by broadsword.
One was a Kid not even 16 years old.
If I started executing children for what I believed in - you wouldn’t be looking at me with “hero” or “martyr” in your eyes would you?
Let’s sum this up…
Violent Extremist, Child Killer, Cold-Blooded-Murderer, Megalomaniac, Republican(Because the media seems to think that’s a crime these days) et all.
Even I’ve got nothing on this guy.
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Yeah, the thing is that its all relative.
Plenty of people that killed Nazis and Taliban, kids and adults alike, cold-blood and stand-up, are hailed as heroes these days.
A lot of people were killed fighting the American revolution.
Is there a point where violence is justified to end certain particularly heinous events/regimes? Or are all killers just that?
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Yeah, the thing is that its all relative.
Plenty of people that killed Nazis and Taliban, kids and adults alike, cold-blood and stand-up, are hailed as heroes these days.
A lot of people were killed fighting the American revolution.
Is there a point where violence is justified to end certain particularly heinous events/regimes? Or are all killers just that?
Yes there is a point. That point is WHEN YOU WIN.
I’m sure Eisenhower would have stood trial and been executed had the allies lost the war.
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Agreed. A whole race of people would have been eliminated and we would all be talking now about how foolish the Democracies were to think that they could colonize, exclude from power and generally shit on so many other countries and peoples.
It just, didn’t work out that way…
…so far.
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Agreed. A whole race of people would have been eliminated and we would all be talking now about how foolish the Democracies were to think that they could colonize, exclude from power and generally ���� on so many other countries and peoples.
It just, didn’t work out that way…
…so far.
What do you mean “a whole race of people would have been eliminated”? 90% of world scientists agree that that “mythical” race never existed and that it was all allied propoganda.
I’m beginning to doubt your committments to the Fuhrer friend… you don’t want to return to re-education camp for a second graduation do you?
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My commitment to the Fuhrer is eternal, mein freund. I was merely suggesting that IF such a race had existed, as these krank-pot scientists suggest, they would have been eliminated immediately along with any threat they posed to the 1000 year Reign of Third Reich. Just as the capitalists and communists were easily vanquished in the Second Great War that established this long period of global peace and stability…
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Drink up… :)
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Yes there is a point. That point is WHEN YOU WIN.
I’m sure Eisenhower would have stood trial and been executed had the allies lost the war.
Interesting that at this point there are 2 votes down. I wonder if you had said “I’m sure Churchill would have stood trial and been executed had the allies lost the war.” Would you still get two votes down? Perhaps Roosevelt and Churchill were in the same category and Eisenhower being a military man is different.
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