Viggen

Another review has been completed for our Roman Books section, thanks to community member Divi Filius. Starting off my review of this book with a grievance may sound bad but should not be exaggerated. This grievance is that the name of this book is in fact a rather big misconception of what is in this bio. With Caesar, Meier does not stick to a simple narration of the various events of Julius Caesar

A suspected tomb raider turned police informant has led archaeologists to what experts described Friday as the oldest known frescoed burial chamber in Europe. The tomb, located on a hilly wheat field north of Rome, belonged to a warrior prince from the nearby Etruscan town of Veio, according to archaeologists who took journalists on a tour of the site. Dating from around 690 B.C., the underground burial chamber is decorated with roaring lions and migratory birds. full article at ABC News

A rare Roman coin celebrating the murder of Julius Caesar has been returned to Greece after an operation by British Customs. The 1st century BC Brutus coin, with a double-dagger design representing the Roman politician

lost warrior, i can tell you that, Simon Scarrow told me that he was very pleased with your review and we might do soon an interview with him, hows that for good news! cheers viggen

Another review has been completed for our Roman Books section, thanks to community member Lost_Warrior. When I first opened Simon Scarrow

well, there is not a list of the best, but i guess they have at least a list (via search use State) that is pretty impressive imo... http://chnm.gmu.edu/resources/departments/ cheers viggen

M.C. Wells new book Sailing from Byzantium : How a Lost Empire Shaped the World will be released end of July. However thanks to Bantam Dell Publishing Group we received an early copy and they even shipped it across the planet to Australia! (Glad Tobias that you got it so quick) btw. Ursus did a review a while back on one of Wells earlier books Roman Empire

I found this once somewhere; The fireman put a ladder up against the tree, climbed it, and rescued the cat; now the same sentence politically correct; The firefighter (who happened to be male, but could just as easily have been female) abridged the rights of the cat to determine for itself where it wanted to walk, climb, or rest, and inflicted his own value judgments in determining that it needed to be 'rescued' from its chosen perch. In callous disregard for the well-being of the environment and his and others health and safety, and this one tree in particular, he thrust the mobility-disadvantaged unfriendly means of ascent known as a 'ladder' carelessly up against the tree, marring its bark, and unfeelingly climbed it, unconcerned how his display of physical prowess might injure the self-esteem of those differently-abled. He kidnapped and unjustly restrained the innocent feline with the intention of returning it to the person who claimed to 'own' the naturally free animal. The firefighter later filed a lawsuit claiming compensation for unjustly suffering the indignity which happened to breach his Human Rights and exposure to possible injury that climbing a tree entails. He won 100% compensation, thus making tree climbing impossible forever. The council later cut the tree down to avoid such an incident occurring again.

Right now, the Karelian Bear Dog is the most named dog in Austria. Given that this breed was basically unknown a couple of days ago here, it is a rather big jump in popularity! So how did this Karelian Bear Dog became so famous overnight? There is a bear in western austria, he is ratherr naughty and kills sheep, destroys dens and gets closer to humans every day, experts speak about a "problem bear" meaning he lost fear of humans. Now one way would be to just shoot him. However the european brown bear is protected in Austria, so next best thing is to catch him. Thats were the Karelian Bear Dog comes in to play. A handfull of this breed came over to Austria from Finland. and now they search for the bear and Austria is watching.... ...here is an english article about "Bruno" the Bear

The Basques that settled 8,300 years ago in the Jaizkibel Mountain near the Basque coast were skillful enough to go fishing two kilometres out to sea. The human beings that lived in the Basque Country in the Mesolithic, more than 8,000 years ago, set sail out to sea fishing, something which meant 50 percent of their diet, Aranzadi society of sciences reported Tuesday after examining archaeological remains found in Gipuzkoa. full article at Eitb

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A newsletter subscriber asked a question that i will pass on to you guys... Would all of the territories occupied by the Roman Army keep the identical time, or were there time zones in effect, or local times observed? The Roman army kept 3 hour watches through out the nite; So, was it midnite in Rome at the same moment that it was midnite in Jerusalem in 30 AD?

We are happy to announce that bestselling author Conn Iggulden has agreed to answer some of our question in a recent brief interview. We are sure that this will be just the first of many such interviews. Unrv.com: Thank you for joining us, Mr. Iggulden. Please tell us how your interest in writing developed. How and when did you decide to write your first book? Conn Iggulden: I started writing novels at the age of thirteen, as far as I can remember. In potential publishing terms, they had the drawback of being rubbish, but I kept writing and became better at it. Unrv.com: You have spent several years as an english teacher, correct? How did you come about to set your first novel in ancient Rome, had Shakespeare (Julius Caesar) anything to do with it? Conn Iggulden: Not really. My mother was a history teacher, so I was brought up on all the good stories of history, like Charles I wearing two shirts on the morning of his execution, so no one would see him shiver and think he was afraid. For me, history is all about good stories, but there was an element of sheer luck in coming across Julius Caesar. I knew the Shakespeare play fairly well, but I didn't know much about his youth

Just got this via Googles Pressrelease Mail GOOGLE ANNOUNCES MAJOR IMAGERY UPDATE FOR GOOGLE EARTH, NEW TOOLS AND INNOVATIONS IN MAPPING MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. - June 12, 2006 - Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) today announced a series of updates to the company's mapping product suite, further illustrating Google's commitment to creating powerful tools for sharing geographic information. Announced live at Google's first Geo Developer Day, these innovations both connect users to information about the world around them, as well as address the growing needs of the developer community. "We are excited to celebrate the one year anniversary of Google Earth and the Google Maps API with new technologies for these products," said John Hanke, director, Google Earth and Maps. "In the past year, we have had more than 100 million unique Google Earth downloads and have enabled over 30,000 websites to create mash-ups combining their own geographic data with the Google Maps API. The enthusiasm of the geo-developer community encourages us that these geo-based tools are connecting users to information in new and innovative ways." Google Earth news announced today includes:

yeah fantastic display by the kangaroos... soccer might get a well deserved boost in down under

It shows everyone that visits the site regardles if member or not... cheers viggen

Too bad, would've been nice to see a global snapshot of where visits were coming from say in a one week period. Oh, thats not a big problem with the help of our very own analytics program it is actually very easy. All i have to do is select a time period (for example May 2006), make a screenshot upload it and voila!

looks nice, i am afraid it will put a huge load on the server and might slow the site down though... cheers viggen

...a backling for the search engines (they base their algo on links), now that i unlinked it, that objective is gone, lets see if he sticks around or if he just was out to get a link.... regards viggen

British expert nixes Bosnia pyramid claim A British archaeologist on Friday rejected claims that a hill in central Bosnia is a man-made structure that many local residents insist is a pyramid. Professor Anthony Harding, who is president of the European Association of Archaeologists, visited Visocica hill and said the formation was natural. "Not any evidence at all has been found" to support the claim the site would be an archaeological site, he said. more at news.yahoo

Archaeologists in the site of Iru

FOR decades, researchers have been baffled by the intricate bronze mechanism of wheels and dials created 80 years before the birth of Christ. The "Antikythera Mechanism" was discovered damaged and fragmented on the wreck of a cargo ship off the tiny Greek island of Antikythera in 1900. Now, a joint British-Greek research team has found a hidden ancient Greek inscription on the device, which it thinks could unlock the mystery. full article at The Scotsman

Fresh tombs of one of Rome's most implacable foes have been discovered in Italy's mountainous Abruzzo region. Some of the tombs have been dated to the Second Century BC, when Rome was still trying to subdue the warlike peoples that lived in the region. via Ansa.it

Continuation of archeological excavations in Kangelou Fortress in Mazandaran province confirmed to a large extent that this historical monument was a worship place during the Sassanid era.Discovery of some Mithraism symbols such as cypress, a goat and an inscription in Sassanid-Pahlavi language and Mithraism architectural style in Kangelou Fortress all have strengthened the theory that this historical monument was used as a worship place during the ancient times. full article at CHN.ir

ho ho ho, first sensation of the cup, Trinidad/Tobago makes a heroic 0:0 draw with one man less against top team of Sweden... I guess its party time in the caribbean right now cheers viggen