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Re: AM electromagnetic waves: astronomically-high modulation frequency on an astronomically-low car

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2007-06-30, 3:33 pm

On Jun 30, 12:33 pm, DTC < no_spam@move_along_f
olks.foob> wrote:
> m II wrote:
>
> Correct...the fiddle wasn't invented for another thousand years.
>
> [quote Wiki]
>
> It was said by Suetonius and Cassius Dio that Nero sang the "Sack of Ilium"
> in stage costume while the city burned. However, Tacitus' account has Nero
> in Antium at the time of the fire. Tacitus said that Nero playing his lyre
> and singing while the city burned was only rumor. Popular legend remembers
> Nero fiddling-- that is, playing the fiddle-- while Rome burned, but this
> is an anachronism as the instrument had not yet been invented, and would
> not be for over 1,000 years.

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