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The incipit of a piece in the Charlotte Observer:
Just off the English Channel’s gray beach that runs along the eastern edge of Royal St. George’s golf course, there’s a rutted pathway that follows the shore. It’s only slightly more narrow than the paved road that winds nearby, threading around the scene of this week’s Open Championship and into the adjacent town with its ivy-covered stone buildings.
The pathway was put there for Julius Caesar in 55 BC when he came rolling through these parts, invading the region long before Walter Hagen, Henry Cotton and Greg Norman did their own turns as conquerors on the heaving dunes at St. George’s. […]
Obviously a bit of fantasy going on there … can’t really imagine folks saying “Oooo … Caesar’s coming … better put in a path for him!” But as long as we’re talking about invasion matters, it’s probably salutary to note that nothing appears to have come of the theories that Caesar’s invasion didn’t happen, or that it happened a week earlier than conventionally thought.
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