Is This the Way It's Always Been?

This is the valley where, in 218 b c hannibal came through here with 90 thousand men and ten thousand horsemen and 37 elephants on his way back home. I magin what the road conditions were like in those days. Fortunately, with their large pads, they didn't slip too much on the snow. Four minutes ind 18 seconds, 92 kilametes to go. Now here was our poor man left on the wan. That is asnake. That is a stun digression. This is totally new to me. Is this? Is this the way it's always been? Have they always been this liwicopaedia of of architecture and world history at their