9 Chickweed Lane by Brooke McEldowney for April 15, 2002

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Amos: "...But as Hadrian discovered, 'Taming the Scottish was an impossible task' (MacAllister, pages 13-21), and that a wall seemed the only alternative, 'containing them in the rocky and forbidding northlands, well away from civilized Roman Britain' (ibid)...'A not untried tactic in other parts of the ancient world' (op cit, pages 45-46)." Mary Amos: "Just because a person likes to cite his sources is no excuse for death threats."