Medicine - their army medical work was only equalled in the 1800's Also they gave us MDXIdsmg wrote:What have the Romans ever done for us?
We really have to thank the Muslims who developed mathematics and changed MDXI into 1234....
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Medicine - their army medical work was only equalled in the 1800's Also they gave us MDXIdsmg wrote:What have the Romans ever done for us?
Which is exactly what Chris Geraghty says - see my quote two messages above. That quote is a tiny part of one of I think five chapters which are hard hitting stuff.rockfreak wrote: A favourite quote of mine is one I heard from a veteran Catholic priest in Glasgow: "Stay well away from HQ". Which I take to mean, navigate by your conscience than by the latest edict from the Vatican.
michael scuffil wrote:In India they ... burnt their unfortunate widows on the funeral pyres of the deceased husbands.
I read somewhere an opinion that the abolition of this practice was the one positive contribution the British made to India. (I can't think of another, either.)