The "Hadrian's Wall" in the United States-Mexico Border
By Radio Havana
Everybody knows that Emperor Hadrian ordered the construction of a protective wall in northern Great Britain between 122 and 132 AD to separate the Roman Empire from the "barbarians" as they called the people who refused to be submitted while preventing their passage into his territory.Continue
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