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... ied locations and targeting regions with weak defenses. The Second Augusta Legion, under Petillius Cerialis, sent 2,000 Roman troops to face Boudicca's 800 rebels, but the soldiers were nearly wiped out. After Verulamium was set ablaze, Suetonius entered Londinium (modern London). He warned the citizens to flee and offered to escort them. Suetonius did not have enough troops to defend the city, and the London garrison was too small to counter Boudicca's forces. Most of Suetonius’s army would not arrive for several days. The Britons took no prisoners—they slit throats, burned, hanged, and crucified their victims. Rather than engage Boudic ...

... c pole shift. According to the Codex Chimalpopoca , written in the ancient Aztec language Nahuatl, four terrifying upheavals were caused by the Earth's axis shifting. In Norse mythology, it is said that when the wolf Fenrir broke free from his chains, "he shook himself, and the world trembled. The ash tree Yggdrasil (the axis of the world) was shaken from its roots to its highest branches. Mountains split apart, the earth lost its shape, and stars fell from the sky." At that time, the polar axis, which some geologists suggest had its northern point in Hawaii, was displaced. The Earth rocked violently before settling into a new position with ...