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After the conquest of Gaul, Julius Caesar-who served as both the Tommy Franks and L. Paul Bremer of that operation-had serious pacification problems. A particularly violent revolt occurred in the town of Uxellodunum. "Caesar saw his work in Gaul could never be brought to a successful conclusion if similar revolts were allowed to break out," wrote his friend Aulus Hirtius. "So he decided to deter all others" by cutting off the hands of the prisoners taken at Uxellodunum and sending the survivors out across Gaul as an object lesson. Hirtius concluded, "The situation was now everywhere satisfactory...
Like Julius Caesar's Gaul, the ice that covers Antarctica is divided into three parts. There is the small ice of the Antarctic Peninsula. There is the big ice that covers the solid, continental block of East Antarctica to a depth, in places, of nearly three miles. And there is the middle-size ice of West Antarctica, much of which lies below sea level, so that its outermost fringes come into potentially perilous contact with seawater...
...acquisition of LG&E's British parent, PowerGen. Shareholders approved the deal last month, and the company is waiting only for an expected green light from the Securities and Exchange Commission. In the meantime, Hartmann has assigned PowerGen's former chairman, Ed Wallis, and E.ON board member Michael Gaul to run a new company that will push forward E.ON's Stateside expansion...
...best way to see Lyons is to take it from the top. Hop aboard the funicular, locally known as la ficelle (the string) to Fourvière, once the Gallic town of Lugdunum that was the capital of Roman Gaul. From the terrace of the 19th century Notre Dame basilica, on the site of the old Roman Forum, the view follows the city's progress, from the medieval and Renaissance Vieux Lyons on the banks of the Saône to the narrow 17th and 18th century Presqu'île, or peninsula, between...
Like the Romans before it, the empire of the Golden Arches has finally succumbed to the indomitable spirit of Asterix the Gaul. As of Wednesday, Ronald McDonald has been retired as the icon of McDonald's France, replaced by the Gallic nationalist comic-book hero. Ironies abound, of course, since Asterix had been something of an anti-Mcdonald's icon, appropriated by anti-globalization protestors such as Mac-basher Jose Bove to symbolize French resistance to foreign encroachment. Resentment of the perceived "McDonaldization" of their culture runs high in France - the influential daily Le Monde, for example, warns that Mcdonald...