Re: ODD DESTINATIONS

["Derick Wuen" <cullend@webone.com.au>]

Eddie Oliver wrote in message <3771B9E8.618D36E6@efs.mq.edu.au>...
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>A quick search of the net reveals that the Benedictine monks seem to
>have put "Subiaco" on the map fairly widely around the world.
>
>See
>
>http://www.knight.org/advent/cathen/14321a.htm
>
>if you really want to go back in history. It says that the original
>Subiaco was a "city in the province of Rome" but it had received its
>name from the artificial lakes of the villa of Nero. Presumably it was
>perfectly logical for Nero to think of "lying down" around his
>artificial lakes.
>
>What a wonderful service the Web is - for instance this is the first
>time I have ever consulted the "Catholic Encyclopedia 1913", which is
>what the above is apparently an extract from!  Are we on the path to
>establishing aus.rail.connections_to_ancient_history?
>
>Eddie

And I thought I was pushing it, back to Trevithick era1803, with my Rum
Rebellion post.