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RAT goes Wikipedia - A proposal
#46
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Ro ... reservoirs

And a couple of stubs on the most notable Roman dams in Spain:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornalvo_Dam
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Almonacid_de_la_Cuba_Dam
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proserpina_Dam
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcantarilla_Dam
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ermita_de_ ... _Pilar_Dam
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muel_Dam
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Pared_de_los_Moros_Dam
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iturranduz_Dam
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consuegra_Dam
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esparragalejo_Dam
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puy_Foradado_Dam
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#47
Expanded dam section: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_an ... al_records

Individual dams:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_of_Homs
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subiaco_Dams
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dara_Dam
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glanum_Dam
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kasserine_Dam
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harbaqa_Dam
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#48
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurymedon_ ... 28Selge%29 (Great pics: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Categ ... 28Selge%29 )

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arapsu_Bridge (Pics: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Categ ... psu_Bridge )
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#49
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcon%C3%A9tar_Bridge
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#50
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hierapolis_sawmill
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#51
Very cool :-) )
Christian K.

No reconstruendum => No reconstruction.

Ut desint vires, tamen est laudanda voluntas.
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#52
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_By ... inventions
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#53
Promoted to good article status: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alconetar_bridge
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#54
Rewrite of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Printing_press

Check out the subsection on "Technological factors"; there were two Roman innovations which had an indirect influence on the invention and success of the printing press, the screw press and the codex, both in evidence since the 1st century AD. Big Grin
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#55
'Typography' before Gutenberg:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pr%C3%BCfe ... nscription
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medieval_letter_tile
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#56
[url:2fyzme0e]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_lead_pipe_inscription[/url]
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#57
List of Roman victory columns
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#58
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ancient_monoliths
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#59
Liste der größten Monolithen der Welt

Stone of the Pregnant Woman
Pompey's Pillar (column)

Expanded: List of ancient architectural records (monoliths & columns)
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#60
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_economy
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