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No way you're serious; even as an ardent cricket fan I'd never heard of him.

I am serious. I live in the town where he lived, walk past his grave frequently, and drink in the pub (The Cricketers, Farncombe) where he worked as landlord. The other Caesar has no such presence in my daily life!

Well, I'll be--that's definitely fair enough!

> The other Caesar has no such presence in my daily life!

Apart from having set up the modern calendar (slightly adjusted in the XVII century) and having a whole month named after him, and a few other minor things such as the original conquest of Britain ...

"... what have the Romans done for us?"

"All right, but apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, a fresh water system, and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?”

“Brought peace.”

“Oh. Peace? Shut up"

Are there not vestiges of these things in modern UK today or at least England?

Not in the North, no.

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