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The third-century Baths of Caracalla in Rome were damaged by the earthquake that struck near L'Aquila central Italy on Monday, a city archaeological authority told reporters. ...more at the Telegraph

I just updated the contributors page and just by looking at it, i cant stop saying THANK YOU!

Friday, April 3 to Monday April 6, 2009 In 2009 the annual meeting of the Classical Association will be held jointly with the Classical Association of Scotland and hosted by the Department of Classics at the University of Glasgow. The Presidential Address will be given by Professor Richard Seaford (University of Exeter) and the Plenary Session by Professor Mary Beard (University of Cambridge). Invited speakers include Joan Booth, Sander Goldberg and Alison Keith. The academic sessions will take place in the Glasgow Crowne Plaza hotel; accommodation and meals will be provided by the Glasgow Crowne Plaza and the Glasgow Campanile hotels. There will be a drinks reception at the City Chambers and excursions will be arranged to the Main Campus of the University and to places of interest outwith the centre of Glasgow: Burrell Collection, Pollok House, Pollok Country Park; Hill House, Helensburgh; and Falkirk Wheel via Rough Castle (near Castlecary). ...you can get the full programm with all sessions here http://www.gla.ac.uk/media/media_100981_en.pdf

An isolated salt marsh on the coast of contemporary Iceland is the last place most people would think of looking for Roman-era air pollution. But traces of atmospheric lead pollution found in the sedimentary cores of an Iceland salt marsh, most likely originated from first- and second-century C.E. Roman mining and metal-working operations, a new study reports... ...full article at Miller Mccune

Below are the newest releases for April... Mediterranean Anarchy, Interstate War, and the Rise of Rome Cleopatra and Rome (Paperback) Imperium and Cosmos: Augustus and the Northern Campus Martius The End of Sacrifice: Religious Transformations in Late Antiquity Personal Names in the Roman World (Paperback) The Antonine Wall (Paperback) New Perspectives on Etruria and Early Rome Handbook to Life in Ancient Rome (Library Binding)

...that was my first thought lol

The starter includes fresh organic farmed salmon from Shetland served with foraged samphire and sea kale and a selection of early vegetables from Secrett

...ok, was close but we won, last 20 minutes were intense....

...dont worry we are worse lol, only hope is that we have a new coach, and that he might get us some new life, but thats about it....

...when faced with a symbolic, emotional challenge, the knee-jerk response of most red-blooded managers is to counter the issue with substance, with the facts. So in the case of AIG, we are told that the bonuses were contractual obligations, that they were essential to keep the talent necessary to wind down complex positions. And, even that without them the government bailout funds would be permanently lost because the company would not be able to function.... If you consider the truly great leaders throughout history, they have ways of re-framing the issues that acknowledge emotions but put them in a greater context. Consider a literary example, the "friends, Romans, Countrymen" speech written by Shakespeare, who describes the eulogy given by Mark Antony at Caesar's funeral. ...Antony's call for judgment and reason, and the introduction of perspective ("you all did love him once, not without cause"). Now, I'm hardly one to try to hold our business and political leaders up to Shakespearean standards of oratory. But the basic message

this article has now its own page http://www.unrv.com/culture/surnames-of-the-cornelii.php cheers viggen

happy birthday

http://www.lib.msu.edu/vincent/presidents/harrison.htm President Harrison around 1889 the list with the rest http://www.lib.msu.edu/vincent/presidents/ ...my mother tongue is not english so forgive me, but doesnt sound President Cleveland more british then american? cheers viggen

For centuries it's been said that the crusading Knights of Malta constructed an underground city on the Mediterranean island of Malta, sparking rumors of secret carriageways and military labyrinths. Now a tunnel network has been uncovered beneath the historic heart of the Maltese capital of Valletta, researchers say. But the tunnels -likely from an ahead-of-its-time water system- may render previous theories all wet... ...full article at National Geographic

Abstract: This short article introduces a previously unknown pre-Reformation chronicle entry about Robin Hood. Until now, no English chronicle entry has been discovered, and only Scottish authors are thought to have set Robin in a chronological context. The new find places Robin Hood in Edward I

Archaeologists have uncovered 3,000 years of history at the site near the junction of the A358 and the M5 at Cambria Farm, in Taunton, Somerset. The Iron Age roundhouse with a diameter of 56ft (17m) is one of the largest prehistoric roundhouses ever found in Britain. A mound of burned stones indicating a 2,500-year-old sauna has also been discovered as well as the remains of a Roman farm... ...full article at the Telegraph

As the title of the book suggests, and as the author makes plain within, this book tries not only to find the causes of the fall of the Roman empire in the west - itself no easy task - but also to discover if there are any lessons relevant to today which can be drawn from this fall. Thus, in attempting this book, Goldsworthy attempts an epic task. Firstly the sheer time-scale of the fall of the western empire is impressive. Goldsworthy starts with the death of the emperor Marcus Aurelius in AD 180 and finishes well into the sixth century with a rough sketch of the campaigns of Belisarius, which means that over four action-packed centuries have to be compressed into little more than a year per page... ...read Philip Matyszak's full review of How Rome Fell: Death of a Superpower by Adrian Goldsworthy ...read Ursus`full review of How Rome Fell: Death of a Superpower by Adrian Goldsworthy

An Army archivist is undertaking a massive project to digitize and make public a unique collection of rare and sometimes startling military medical images, from the Civil War to Vietnam. This previously unreported archive at the Army-run National Museum of Health and Medicine in Washington, D.C., contains 500,000 scans of unique images so far, with another 225,000 set to be digitized this year... ...found this on Wired Magazin ...to the Gallery

....all the best to you....

...thanks mate, good to have you back....

...thats the cheapest car you get in Austria at the moment http://www.dacia.de/dacia_sandero.php, obviously the Dacia Sandero is far from being as cheap as the Tata with the price tag of 7.500 Euro, and of course even further away from being a luxury vehicle, but it does come with at least standard airbag and ABS, it is a joint venture from Renault and Dacia in Romania, and with the current economy surprisingly selling well right now here...

Below are the newest releases for March... The Spartacus War Rome's Greatest Defeat: Massacre in the Teutoburg Forest (Paperback) The Roman Army of the Principate 27 BC-AD 117 (Battle Orders) (Paperback) Cleopatra and Antony: Power, Love, and Politics in the Ancient World (Hardcover) East & West: Papers in Ancient History Presented to Glen W. Bowersock (Loeb Classical Monographs) (Hardcover) Daily Life in the Roman City: Rome, Pompeii, and Ostia (Paperback) The Matter of the Gods: Religion and the Roman Empire The Eagle and the Spade: Archaeology in Rome during the Napoleonic Era Political Speeches (Oxford World's Classics) (Paperback) Political Speeches (Oxford World's Classics) (Paperback) Remembering the Roman People: Essays on Late-Republican Politics and Literature

A church that dates to the Byzantine period which is paved with breathtakingly beautiful mosaics and a dedicatory inscription was exposed in an archaeological excavation the Israel Antiquities Authority is conducting near Moshav Nes-Harim, 5 kilometers east of Bet Shemesh (at the site of Horvat A-Diri), in the wake of plans to enlarge the moshav.... ...full article at Science Daily

excellent Aurelia, is now included... cheers viggen

hi, thanks, but this University is already listed, you may have missed it on the list`? cheers viggen