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once you got rid of the Internet Explorer habit, you can start exploring the true champ of Internet Browsers, Opera, the fastest thing on the net, (as a webdeveloper i use all three all the time for comparison and to see if the page looks ok, but Opera beats everything when it comes to speed) more info, including download here http://www.opera.com/

"The place to study early Christian thought is with its critics," according to Robert Louis Wilken, professor of the History of Christianity at the University of Virginia. "Christianity became the religion it did, at least in part, because of critics like Celsus, Porphyry, and Julian." The modern Western world, with rising levels of both secularism and religious diversity, moves slowly out under the shadow cast down by centuries of Christian influence. Judeo-Christian conservatives decry the trend and fight ever so assiduously to retain their status as the establishment. It is therefore educational and perhaps wickedly entertaining to study a time when Christians were counter-culture activists themselves arrayed against a hostile establishment. Wilken presents a highly readable account of Roman views on the upstart Gallilean cult. read the full review of The Christians as the Romans Saw Them by Robert Louis Wilken

A pictish stone found in Cunningsburgh has been described as the most important archaeological discovery in Shetland for 10 years. The sculptured stone is inscribed with mysterious symbols and dates back to the dark ages. Its significance has been highlighted by Dr Ian Tait, collections curator at the Shetland Museum and Archives. "It had probably not see the light of day for a couple of centuries, but we suspect it dates back to around 700AD." full article at Shetland Today

oh boy, we just lost against Croatia 0:1 The game started as terrible as any game can start, after 3 minutes a (correct) penalty and Croatia leads by one goal, then 25 minutes of pressure from the Croatians, but with little opportunities. Then the last 10 minutes Austria gains a bit of momentum and it is an equal game. Then the second half, i swear i could not see the Croatians being more then 5 minutes in our half, it was a wonderful game by the austrians with plenty of chances, but oh well, the goal didn

The carinthian sheep is a fairly recent breed, it was around the beginning of the 19th century that local farmers were looking for a sheep with a better wool then what was available. This was rather difficult because the two best breeds were from spain and england and both did not allow to export rams at the time, so they looked south to Italy and crossed their local the old Landschaf breed with the Bergamasca and Paduaner Sheep. The hardy, frugal Brillenschaf can cope with high precipitation and is expert in climbing, therefore it is used for grazing high alpine areas which are inaccessible to cows. By the end of the 19th century this breed was very popular and yearly about 30.000 sheep were exported to France at the time. During WWI the Brillenschaf was very popular, due to its big size, (lots of meat), fine wool and being frugal. In the 1930

I abandoned Internet Explorer and using Firefox for more then 3 years, and never looked back. Now with version 3 (which should be out any day now) there even more awesome features are coming, have a look at this feature video and if you havent, please for the sake of the internet download it and try it out, you wont regret it... http://people.mozilla.com/~beltzner/overview-of-firefox3.swf (especiall the -type in a word and get the url of the website- should apeal to many, as i can see on my logs that 100s of people use google, typing "unrv" to get to our site)

...may it be the Ancient, or Medieval or Modern History! My question would be, how does one choose a University? What would be the important points that needs to be considered? If you had to make a list of the 5 most important things when choosing a university (for studying History), what would they be in your opinion? cheers viggen

The core topic of this book is the development of the 'massive and complex frontier system' by the Romans in Scotland. This system comprises three distinct elements; the Highland and Strathmore lines of forts and the Gask line of watchtowers and fortlets running in parallel between them. Although previously seen as separate phases (c/f Jones and Mattingly (1990), An Atlas of Roman Britain), this system is now becoming recognized as a unified whole and the prototype for all subsequent linear Roman frontiers including Hadrian

The San Marino of the Euro 2008 would be Austria, so thank`s for your support!

t might have been used to bring down a small blue duiker or perhaps pick off a bird high in the forest canopy. Its exact target will never be known, but scientists now know what this ordinary-looking piece of bone was used for. Two researchers from Wits University believe that what they have discovered is a 60 000-year-old arrow that was fired from the earliest known bow. Their discovery has pushed back the origins of bow-and-arrow technology by 20 000 years. The bow, probably made of wood and long since decayed, was used at a time when Neanderthals in Europe were using large spears in duels with woolly mammoths and other large prehistoric game. full article at IOL

I couldnt say it better then the Bleacherreport The World Cup is sexier. It

Radiocarbon dating of rat bones and rat-gnawed seeds reinforces a theory that human settlers did not arrive in New Zealand until 1300 A.D. _ about 1,000 years later than some scientists believe, according to a study released Tuesday. The first settlement date "has been highly debated for decades," said Dr. Janet Wilmshurst, a New Zealander who led the international team of researchers in the four-year study. The team carbon dated rat bones and native seeds, and concluded that the earliest evidence of human colonization in the South Pacific country was from 1280 A.D. to 1300 A.D. Retired Maori Studies professor Ranganui Walker said the findings supported the oral history of the Maoris who claim they were the first Polynesians to arrive in New Zealand around that time. The Morioris, non-Maori Polynesians, have claimed they arrived earlier. full article at CBS News

A medieval skeleton, a human tooth and hoardes of Roman pottery have been found buried under modern-day Worcester. Archaeologists excavating the former Worcester Royal Infirmary site, in Castle Street, have unearthed more than 1,700 years of history. Beneath the five-acre site, which is being transformed into the University of Worcester's new city campus, they found evidence of a busy, noisy, dirty Roman district. As well as two Roman buildings and large pits used for disposing rubbish, they found proof of metal-working and huge amounts of pottery, some of which proves the people of Roman Worcester had trading links with Roman France. There is a mysterious circular ditch, 13m in diameter and dating to the third century AD, which has baffled archaeologists... full article at Stourbnews

Below are the newest releases for June... Legions Triumphant: Field of Glory Imperial Rome Army List (Field Of Glory) Scipio Africanus: Rome's Greatest General (Hardcover) DEFEAT OF ROME IN THE EAST, THE: Crassus, the Parthians, and the Disastrous Battle of Carrhae, 53 BC (Hardcover) Always I am Caesar (Paperback) Caesar: A Life in Western Culture (Hardcover) Christianity, Empire, and the Making of Religion in Late Antiquity Gender, Domesticity, and the Age of Augustus: Inventing Private Life Reading Catullus (Greece and Rome Live) The British Museum Concise Introduction to Ancient Rome Lives of the Caesars Also, the bestselling page for May has been updated and the clear winner is John Clarke.

Women in Ancient Greece were major power brokers in their own right, researchers have discovered, and often played key roles in running affairs of state. Until now it was thought they were treated little better than servants. The discovery is part of an investigation by Manchester researchers into the founders of Mycenae, Europe's first great city-state and capital of King Agamemnon's domains... full article at the Guardian

Thirty-six-year-old Professor Eske Willerslev, University of Copenhagen, and his team of fossil DNA researchers have done it a couple of times before: rewritten world history. Most recently two months ago when he and his team discovered that the ancestors of the North American Indians were the first people to populate America, and that they came to the country more than 1,000 years earlier than originally assumed. And the evidence is, so to speak, quite tangible: DNA samples of fossilised human faeces found in deep caves in southern Oregon. This time, focus is on Greenland, and the scientific evidence is DNA analyses of hair from the Disco Bay ice fjord area in north-west Greenland, which are well-preserved after 4,000 years in permafrost soil. The team�s discovery makes it necessary to review Greenland�s immigration history. Until now, science regarded it as a possibility that the earliest people in Greenland were direct ancestors of the present-day Greenlandic population. full article at EurekAlert

Ursus made a few days ago an interview with the UNRV administrators, i hope you enjoy it! Triumviri Revealed

Stone Age Britons had a sophisticated knowledge of geometry to rival Pythagoras

yup we have, the European Pond Turtle, more info to this animal you can find here http://www.centralpets.com/animals/reptile...es/tur4972.html and a nice pic you can see here http://photography.nationalgeographic.com/...ond-turtle.html

weired, they all work for me

Here you can see the lake i am regulary fishing. The watery-area left ot the little river is artificially made a few years ago. It was built to give the fishes and birds a save spot to breed. It is relatively small but neverthelless just after 10 years you no longer would guess it was man-made. On the northern end you can see they are currently extending it by a bit. the whole field in the west might get be done the same way too. The city council is still negotiating with the owners... Old castle. It looks more impressive here. The castle dates from the 14th century.... Middle of Town, here i catch my trouts. (isn`t it great that one can actually catch trouts in the middle of town? I know i am blessed... Lake Faak. The water is so blue, you want to jump in the moment you see the lake... [pretty warm too in summer around 26 degrees celsius (79 fahrenheit)] More lakes i can fish. All not more then 5 miles away from home... Here i can fish the largest Salmonidae that you get in Europe, The huchen or Danube salmon gets pretty big, the official world record is 35 kg (77 pounds) Thats it for now, i go out and get some fish now!

Orkney Islanders are more closely related to people in Siberia and in Pakistan than those in Africa and the near East, according to a novel method to chart human migrations. The surprising findings come from a new way to infer ancient human movements from the variation of DNA in people today, conducted by a team from the University of Oxford and University College Cork, which has pioneered a technique that analyses the entire human genetic makeup, or genome. Although it provides relative genetic contributions of one group to another, rather than timings, it confirms how the first modern humans came out of Africa 50,000 years ago, mostly from a group in southern Africa called the San. But the subsequent movements around the world, via the near east, central Asia and then Europe, turned up some surprises including a strong similarity between the Sindih, a people who once lived in Pakistan, and Orkney Islanders, or Orcadians. In turn, the Orcadians are closely related to the people who first colonised Siberia... full article at the Telegraph

So, just two more weeks (plus a couple of days) and Europe is going crazy, the soccer championships are coming.... Happy that austria is hosting (or we wouldnt be there anyway), and actually be part of it, so let the discussion begin, who is your favourite, who will be the surprise? cheers viggen

During underwater survey around Crotone, Calabria, Italy, in 2005, structures from two harbour phases were located, possibly dating from the Archaic Greek and Roman periods. Both harbours are close to the Greek and Roman architectural remains on Capo Colonna, as well as to underwater deposits of large stone blocks and other, previously-excavated sites. With the discovery of these harbour structures, new hypotheses arise for understanding the building-material deposits and excavated sites. A critical component of these hypotheses is the assessment of local geological data, specifically ancient sea-level, in relation to the archaeological record. full article at the International Journal of Nautical Archaeology (very interesting and extensive report)

When it came to their daily bread, troops at a Northumberland Roman fort took no chances. Excavations at Vindolanda are revealing two massive granaries whose quality even outshone the nearby commanding officer