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nelson mandela? cheers viggen

Hi DarkWan and welcome to unrv.com I think the history of Malaysia is pretty interesting http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Malaysia cheers viggen

The village of Ladenburg, just north of Heidelberg, has the allure of many charming towns in Germany

A collection of medieval manuscripts from Timbuktu which academics hail as proof of an African scholarly tradition go on public show on the continent for the first time on Friday. Timbuktu in Mali, West Africa, has been trumpeted as the epicentre of Africa's intellectual heritage and the discovery of about 30 000 lost texts has challenged the stereotype of Africa as a continent with no written history. full article at IOL

lol, you shouldnt imagine you post something and no one knows, now thats scary... cheers viggen

I think i will get the original german version for christmas and let you know if it i was a translation/editing error... regards viggen

Admin Note (I merged the Mommsen and Mommsen Part 2 thread, as there is no need to have two seperate threads about the same topic within a couple of days)

We only have the Blogs up for a couple of weeks and Google already indexing and ranking it pretty nicely! Some examples; Ursus`Blog with the search phrase Another Day In Customer Service 1st!!!!! out of 90 million Primus Pilus`Blog with the search phrase A Cold in September 1st!!! out of 70 Million!!!!!!!! Pompeius Magnus Blog with the search phrase Latin Language Education 7th out of 27.3 million!!! Maximus' Blog with the search phrase Maximus' Blog is 4th out of 600.00! Zekes Blog with the search phrase Zeke

Ancient Roman marines had a bowl haircut and delicate, child-like features

The American Embassy is funding a project that will help restore sticks that bear engravings dating back to the time of the Kingdom of Sheba. The project is being carried out by the American Institute for Yemeni Studies.

Actually Ursus was so kind to write that Welcome! Danke sehr, Viggen Bitte sch

The life-sized marble statues of two ancient Greek goddesses have emerged during excavations of a 5,000-year-old town on the island of Crete, archaeologists said today. The works, representing the goddesses Athena and Hera, date to between the 2nd and 4th centuries

Wow, there are already 56 million users worldwide, and growing currently by 170.000 users a day.. it is THe cheapest way to phone someone else! btw the new version of skype 1.4 just came out, the killer application is "call forwarding" you can now forward calls to skype to your mobile or landline, http://www.skype.com/ cheers viggen

Welcome back Onasander!

Ouch, sorry to hear that.... About all the links, what i do is send myself an email to my gmail account and so i have it for eternity, About slowiness, maybe the internet connection set up is not properly done? cheers viggen

Well, eventually a usefull invention! A beer mat that knows when a glass is nearly empty and automatically asks for a refill has been created by thirsty researchers in Germany. Andreas Butz at the University of Munich and Michael Schmitz from Saarland University came up with the idea while out drinking with their students. full article at New Scientist

AN archeological dig in Alcester has unearthed what are thought to be the remains of a Roman fort. For many years archeologists and historians have thought that a Roman fort existed under part of modern Alcester. But it had not been possible to prove this theory until this week. full article at Straford Herald

Ithaca, the island home of Greek hero Odysseus described in Homer's Odyssey, was an area of Kefalonia formerly separated by a channel of water, a group of U.K. geologists and Greek mythology specialists said. Historians previously said the island was probably Ithaki, off the north coast of the Greek island Kefalonia. New evidence suggests that it was actually Paliki on the western part of the island. full article at Bloomberg

Someone has to make those kind of decisions cheers viggen

A First-Temple period seal has been discovered amidst piles of rubble from Jerusalem's Temple Mount, an Israeli archaeologist said Tuesday, in what could prove to be an historic find. The small - less than 1 cm - seal impression, or bulla, discovered Tuesday by Bar-Ilan University archaeologist Dr. Gabriel Barkay amidst piles of rubble from the Temple Mount would mark the first time that an written artifact was found from the Temple Mount dating back to the First Temple period. full article at JPost

A team of scientists including Marcello Canuto, professor of anthropology at Yale, has found incontrovertible proof of Site Q, a long-speculated Maya city, during a mission to the northwest Peten region of Guatemala. The proof

A famous corrupt person was Caius Verres, it took a genius like Cicero to get him prosecuted... more info at http://www.unrv.com/bio/caiusverres.php regards viggen

Hi Emperor Goblinus and welcome to Unrv.com! thanks for your kind words and hopefully we will see you here in many conversations about the roman empire... cheers viggen

Rome unveiled the first modern building to rise in its ancient historic centre in decades on Friday while critics dressed as Roman gladiators protested against "the petrol station on the Tiber". Renowned U.S. architect Richard Meier was on hand for the partial inauguration of the minimalist glass, marble and steel Ara Pacis museum, built to house the Altar of Peace monument erected by Augustus in the 1st century BC. "It's an amazing step. It brings Rome into the 21st century with architecture of the 21st century," Meier told Reuters Television at the gala ceremony. Unlike the ancient artists who completed the monument's famous marble friezes in four years, Meier has been struggling to build the museum complex for a decade amid budget squabbles and street protests against the "Los Angelesation" of Rome. full article at Swiss Politics.org