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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!
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To: Krowbar who wrote (34601)4/13/1999 1:45:00 AM
From: nihil  Read Replies (2) of 108807
 
Sorry, Crapper was reinventing facilities the Romans had built 1800 years before. One reason Rome became great was that sewage was collected by drains (cloacae [i.e. "cleansers") built by legendary Tarquin Priscus [i.e. so early no one remembered when]) and dumped into the Tiber. Water was provided from the mountains by elevated aqueducts. The first large-scale separation of water supply and sewers in history. The rise and fall of Rome as a world power is best described by destruction and rebuilding of the pure water supply, rather than fluctuations in religion as Gibbon thought.
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