Viggen

I've NEVER met anyone called Viggen! LOL, well actually i was refering to my real name

A cool Java application lets you enter a name and shows you how popular it was from 1880 to the present. Click "Launch NameVoyager" towards the bottom. http://www.babynamewizard.com/namevoyager/ My name was always in the top 250 and it right now on an all time high (2005 on 22nd position)

Thanks for the kind words! cheers viggen

Ok, now i know i am somewhat biased, but imo there is no other submarine war movie that comes even close to catch the claustrophobic feeling you get inside a sub then this one... I got recently hold of the original 6 hour miniseries (it was screened on german and austrian TV as a six hour miniseries before the cut version came onto the big screen... Now if you dont mind subtitles (dont worry you will forget them after a couple of minutes, and a WWII movie were german soldiers are not presented as pure evil but humans like you and me) you wont get a better catch then this one. (btw. the DVD has a english version too, its ok but not as gripping imo then the original german version...) Oh, and how about the title music, it is by now an all time classic... in anycase, Das Boot is with Sam Peckinpah`s Cross of Iron the probably best WWII movie of all time... cheers viggen

ore than a hundred years ago, German archeologists began to excavate the remarkable tel (mound) of Megiddo. Since then, artifacts galore from 26 layers of civilization built on top of one another have been discovered. However, the site still has many untapped secrets waiting for a trowel or shovel to unearth and expose them to the light of the new millennium... full article at Jerusalem Post

A mortar bomb from the Second World War was found today in the archaeological ruins of Pompeii, Italy, police officials said. The bomb was discovered in the rubble of the Surgeon

The Emperor Nero, reviled down the centuries as a psychopathic, debauched, wife-beating matricide, was probably Nero the Hero as far as the people of Roman Chichester were concerned... full article at Chichester.co.uk

They've been hidden on a patch of Tyneside land for nearly 2,000 years before finally being discovered. Now amazing relics of Roman times could now be lost for ever after council chiefs revealed plans to build on top of them. North Tyneside Council has sparked fury by recommending permission be granted for plans to build on top of the remains, which its own planning documents say are of national and international importance. full article at Evening Chronicle

An apartheid society existed in early Anglo-Saxon Britain, research suggests. Scientists believe a small population of migrants from Germany, Holland and Denmark established a segregated society when they arrived in England. The researchers think the incomers changed the local gene pool by using their economic advantage to out-breed the native population. The team tells a Royal Society journal that this may explain the abundance of Germanic genes in England today. full article at the BBC

Another review has been completed for our Roman Books section, thanks to community member Caldrail. On the back cover this book is described as - "The gripping story of the most colourful and formidable characters to challenge the might of Rome". This story is broken down into seventeen chapters each devoted to the life of one of these characters. Interestingly enough these people vary considerably. Not all are military men bent on conquest. There are stories of revenge, freedom, survival, greed, vanity, and political ambition from both men and women of different backgrounds... ...read the full review of The Enemies of Rome by Philip Matyszak

Hi Skarr, probably not exactly what you were looking for, but bloody interesting nevertheless http://formaurbis.stanford.edu/docs/FURdb.html cheers viggen

Welcome Dante, ...glad you found us! cheers viggen

Another review has been completed for our Roman Books section, thanks to community member Pertinax. This is a work that addresses a neglected niche in the consideration of the Roman Navies role in the invasion and military campaigns and policing in and around Britain. There are several very basic truths that must be borne in mind when analyzing the use of historical seaborne forces, firstly the fact that the archaeological record tends to be scarce due to 1. The ephemeral nature of wooden vessels that needed intensive maintenance work and were imbued with positive buoyancy 2. The erosion or inundation, reconstruction and masking of harbor works as ports waxed and waned and sea levels and river patterns evolved.(this is very pertinent to Britain)... ...read the full review of Roman Britain and the Roman Navy by David.J.P.Mason

Well, Cato was talking (and refering with a link) about a coin that was recently illegally dug up and illegally brought out of the country. I was referring to this and nothing else... cheers viggen

Archaeologists excavating part of a Roman villa in Somerset have unearthed a mosaic of Daphne and Apollo. The mosaic, which dates back to the 4th Century, is part of the Dinnington Roman Villa site near Ilminster. It is thought to be the only one of its kind in the country to feature the figures from Greek mythology... full article at the BBC

The remains of an Archaic Era Phoenician city have been unearthed in Mezquitilla, V

American, British and Italian archaeologists have made a major new find at the ancient Roman site of Stabiae, one of the hottest and most happening resorts in ancient times. Stabiae has been neglected over the years because of its more famous neighbour Pompeii and because, frankly, there wasn't much to see there. But now a key new partnership has been set up to dig the whole area of the ancient 'Gomorrah-on-the-Gulf'. Stabiae was in fact much naughtier than supposedly raunchy Pompeii and things went on there that have would have made a Roman patron - never mind matron - blush. via Ansa.it

Egyptian archaeologists have discovered carvings with Greek inscriptions dating back to the era of the second century Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius, the Supreme Council of Antiquities announced on Tuesday. It appears to be an exaltation to the God Serapis, a composite of Egyptian and Hellenistic deities, including Zeus and Helios, as part of efforts to integrate Egyptian religion with that of their Hellenic rulers. full article at Middle East Times

Setting up an offshore, submarine archaeological site anywhere is not an easy task, let alone in a city with the water pollution problems of Alexandria. Yet the remarkable discoveries made by underwater archaeologists over the last decade justify further serious efforts for what would be Egypt's first ever offshore underwater museum. These questions and more were raised at an international workshop held last week in Alexandria to discuss the feasibility of constructing such a museum. On the table were a projected ground plan, an architectural design and a programme to study the environmental conditions of Alexandria's Mediterranean Sea and its state of marine pollution, the socio- economic problems related to the success of the underwater archaeological museum project and urban impacts. The workshop was held under the umbrella of UNESCO and the Ministry of Culture at the Alexandria Art Creativity Centre, where a multidisciplinary team of 28 international and Egyptian experts were gathered. full article at Al Ahram

well, it was illegally dug up and illegally brought out of the country, good for them that they had to return it.. or what do you think how the british have acted if sutton hoo had ended up illegally in another country...

oh i see, you mention the "revised" edition not only third one... sorry, only Ursus can tell you that... cheers viggen

Ursus did a review on the OCD http://www.unrv.com/book-review/oxford-cla...-dictionary.php cheers viggen

Some striking similarities Bush doesnt wear a toga... and Augustus was not from Texas... To get to my point is - imo there are no similarities... (and i would be suprised if Bush gets one day deified)

Another review has been completed for our Roman Books section, thanks to community member Tobias. One cannot avoid the fact that Rome's shadow has been cast over the ages, spreading knowledge, wisdom, technology etc over centuries and through many peoples of the world, to have a resounding influence on today's world. How has this influence survived so long, when it is a commonly held thought that Rome ended in the 5th century A.D., and that this "fall" was the end to any Roman influence in the world? The answer is that Rome did not fall

ok, i split that now from the posting ranks explained thread... ...to stay in theme i was so free to name this thread in latin, feel free to argue and discuss, if it gets too heated (i know grammar discussions tend to go out of hand), don`t be surprised if this will be moved eventually to the Arena...