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I got an 8 out of 10. One of them, I guessed and 1 of them I clicked the wrong one when I knew the answer. I guess all that reading paid off for me....Where's my diploma.

I loved their photo of a London double decker bus on the moon. Doug

Hmm, I'm sorry to say but given the news source of this article, I would not take it too seriously... Check out their headlines here. It's pure rubbish! Also, World News Daily is listed as a fake news website: http://urbanlegends.about.com/od/Fake-News/tp/A-Guide-to-Fake-News-Websites.01.htm Oh and I just found a disclaimer on their website where they declare themselves to be a "political satire web publication", hehe. Case closed.

Basic control of horses, although in most cases armies tended to prefer either mares (for obedience) or stallions (for spirit). There was a case during the Crusads where the male horses of the knights took a fancy tothe female horses of the turks during a confrontation. Bizarre I know, but it certainly spooked the Turks.

Here are some of the highlights for October! Marcus Agrippa: Right-hand man of Caesar Augustus The Woman Who Would Be King: Hatshepsut's Rise to Power in Ancient Egypt Secret Chamber Revisited: The Quest for the Lost Knowledge of Ancient Egypt Dangerous Days in the Roman Empire Confronting the Classics: Traditions, Adventures, and Innovations The Greatest Empire: A Life of Seneca The Roman Army: A History 753 BC - AD 476 Veni, Vidi, Vici: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About the Romans but Were Afraid to Ask The Inner Lives of Ancient Houses: An Archaeology of Dura-Europos The Fragmentary History of Priscus: Attila, the Huns and the Roman Empire, AD 430-476 (Christian Roman Empire)

...thanks to Adrienne Mayor who pointed me in the right direction, the whole article for free The Journal of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens Making Sense of Nonsense Inscriptions Associated with Amazons and Scythians on Athenian Vases http://www.ascsa.edu.gr/pdf/uploads/Hesperia_83_3_Amazons_Mayor.pdf

Paris actually has quite a bit to offer the Romanophile visitor. I remember visiting the underground exhibition on the Ile de la Cité. I also attended a wonderful concert held at the Roman Baths (Thermes de Cluny). These and many other hidden treasures are often overlooked by the average tourist, but they are definitely worth a visit. I'm including below an interesting article about Paris aka Lutetia as it was known in Roman times. Had Georges Eugène Haussmann not undertaken to tear up chunks of old Paris, much of the city's very early history would have remained hermetically sealed beneath its medieval layer, forever lost. Only the odd clue or snippet of information about Roman-era Paris had trickled down prior to the 19th century—in Julius Caesar's Commentaries on the Gallic Wars (52 BC) for a start, where the oppidum of the Parisii—a tribe of Celtic Gauls—on an island of the river Seine (Sequana) is first mentioned. Their settlement was known as Lutetia, or as the French now call it, Lutèce; the name Paris appears for the first time only in the 3rd century AD. Another half a millennium elapsed before the famous chronicler of the History of the Franks, Gregory of Tours (circa 538-594), reported the discovery, in a Paris gutter, of an ancient bronze serpent and badger, which his contemporaries interpreted as a premonitory sign that the city would be destroyed by fire—an interesting sidelight but revealing little about Lutetia. The first reference to an urban Roman monument was discovered only in the 12th century: an unsigned document mentions the "great circus" and "immense ruins" of the "arena", with specific reference to their location "by the church of Saint Victor". The famous medieval abbey of Saint Victor, a place of great erudition and beauty complete with cascading rivulets and fragrant orchards, was situated around the present Place Jussieu, now home to the ugly asbestos-ridden sprawl of the University of Paris VII. A section of the Roman aqueduct was unearthed in the Latin Quarter in the 16th century, and two ancient cemeteries, in the rues du Faubourg Saint Jacques and Faubourg Saint Marcel, were located in the 17th. More at France Today

...yesterday i watched the latest episode of the Knick and it was breathtaking, disturbing and emotional, and i am not the only one who thinks that... (brilliant show) http://www.vulture.com/2014/09/steven-soderbergh-the-knick-directing-race-riot.html?mid=facebook_vulture