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I am old enough to remember the big Friulian earthquake in 1976. My hometown only a few kilometers away from the border we felt it hard. I remember that moment as if it was yesterday even though i was only 6 years old. It felt as if i was on a ship and there were big waves, a really weird feeling and it felt it goes on forever. I was already sleeping so it took a while till i woke up and after that it still didnt stop for at least a minute. Here some info on the friulian earthquake that costs almost 1.000 peoples live. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1976_Friuli_earthquake
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I read in one of the social media channels that due to the geological make up of the east coast a 5.8 is much stronger in the east than in the west, i have nothing to back it up but would be interested if that is true...
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I have my carnuntum archaeological guide that i bought in front of me and it says about; Mercenery game (ludus latruncolorum) This game of strategy is similar to our draughts. Two players sit opposite one another and place their 16 counters in two rows in front of them on the board. The counters can be moved forwards, sidewards or backwards. But no other counter may block the move. The aim of the game is to take the oppontents counters. A counter is taken when it is encircled by two opposing counters. Then it is removed from the game. The person who has lost al his counters or who can no longer move his counters has lost the game. not sure this is of any help,but there you have it anyway.... cheers viggen
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Many tomes have been written about Rome`s army and the battles it fought on land. The role and achievements of its navy, however, has received relatively scant attention. This is odd given the number of recorded naval engagements and the role the navy played in enforcing Roman authority by patrolling the rivers of the northern frontier and the expanse of the Mediterranean Sea. This is not for lack of interest in ancient warships either. Several have been built over the years by different groups in Europe, including the Victoria by the University of Hamburg based on the remains of a Roman patrol boat found at Oberstimm. Even as I write, a team of enthusiasts is building a liburna at Millingen in The Netherlands which will soon patrol Rhenus flumen as its ancestors once did... ...read the full review of Roman Warships by Michael Pitassi
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Roman Warships by Michael Pitassi Book Review by Lindsay Powell Many tomes have been written about Rome
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A Technical Question
Viggen replied to Hieronymus Longinus Rufus's topic in Renuntiatio et Consilium Comitiorum
I use a little free program called Irfanview for this http://www.irfanview.com/ If you dont want to download it you can send me your avatar to admin@unrv.com and re-size it for you to 64x64 cheers viggen -
...I made allot of photos, but they are still all in the camera, I cant recall in seeing the altar, and defenitely didnt see it presented "highlighted". I read about that council in the open air museum, but the altar is a few kilometer further in another "museum", i let you know as a search on google didnt produce anything... cheers viggen
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....thank you very much, i got now the exclusive UNRV GLAGG in SPQR design! If you are interested to know what GLAGG is and how to use it (smallest magnetic mounting device in the world) go to Those are the first test production and only 50 units are available, they are 39 dollar which includes shipping costs anywhere in the world... if you are interested pm me or send a mail to admin@unrv.com thanks again for the feedback...
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The author Valerie M. Hope lectures in the Department of Classical Studies at the Open University and focuses her research on Roman funerary customs and funerary monuments. She already has published several books on this topic. The present volume is part of the "Routledge Sourcebooks for the Ancient World" series which are compilations of Ancient sources on certain topics. Concerning Death in Ancient Rome the sources include literature such as poetry, letters and philosophical works as well as epitaphs and inscriptions and of course funerary monuments and cemeteries... ...read the full review of Death in Ancient Rome: A Sourcebook by Valerie Hope
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I was last weekend in Carnuntum and found out that in 308AD there was a big council in Carnuntum. After the abdication of Emperor Diocletian in 305 AD it was necessary to make fundamental reforms to the administration of the _Emppire, in order to maintain unity. Empires political problems were triggered by the rules of succession to the tetrarchy. The historic conference between Diocletian, Galerius and Maximian took place in November 308 AD (must have been bloody cold) The result of the conference (Galerius as the eastern augustus, Licinius as the western augustus) led directly to renewed fighting, which lasted until Emperor Constantine siezed sole power in 326 AD. Testimony to this internation event can be seen today in the vitive altar in the Archaeological Museum Carnuntinum in Bad Deutsch-Altenburg, which was dedicted by the conference participants on teh occasion of the renovation of a Mithras shrine. ... thats the information i got from the official museum papers, anyone else got some more information on the conference of Carnuntum?
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Death in Ancient Rome: A Sourcebook by Valerie Hope The author Valerie M. Hope lectures in the Department of Classical Studies at the Open University and focuses her research on Roman funerary customs and funerary monuments. She already has published several books on this topic. The present volume is part of the "Routledge Sourcebooks for the Ancient World" series which are compilations of Ancient sources on certain topics. Concerning Death in Ancient Rome the sources include literature such as poetry, letters and philosophical works as well as epitaphs and inscriptions and of course funerary monuments and cemeteries... ...read the full review of Death in Ancient Rome: A Sourcebook by Valerie Hope
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I don't know how to do it either! Serves me right for being lazy - you can find the thread here. thanks Ian for giving us this time an "early warning" I would also, like to point out that only "premium members" can participate in the Amazon cash back competition, and therefore will be able to follow that link... cheers viggen
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probably same reason we differentiante between Romans and Italians...?
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....here a german documentary with some original footage, this thing was not years but decades ahead of everything else that was in the air at the time...
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First published in 1999, this is one of a series of books published by the San Marino Center for Interdisciplinary Research on Social Stress (CIROSS). It is the result of a three day conference in which eleven papers were presented. The papers cover topics from before the foundation of the Visigoths until virtually the end of the Visigothic Kingdom in Spain. The layout of the book follows a chronological sequence, comprising the following chapters... ...read the full review of The Visigoths: from the Migration Period to the Seventh Century edity by Peter Heather
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Bestselling articles on Amazon UK, are baseball bats, up by 6,541% http://www.amazon.co...21&linkCode=ur2 thats sales page of Amazon UK is scary right now....
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-14450248 I am shocked, never expected this from the UK. I hope all our british members are ok... regards christian
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As a German-American I try to be conversant with the contributions of Germanic speaking peoples to history, from Mozart to Mercedes-Benz. And yet I only have the dimmest knowledge of German civilization before the 1600s. Trying to correct that problem, I read The Early Germans. Malcom Todd delivers a serviceable overview of the barbarians who inherited the mighty Roman Empire. The written record of the Germanic tribes is far from substantial, and it is viewed from the eyes of Roman writers who had their own agendas. It is left largely to archaeology to elucidate these nebulous peoples. Fortunately, Malcolm Todd is Professor of Archaeology at the University of Exeter, and formerly a Senior Research Fellow of the British Academy... ...read the full review of The Early Germans by Malcolm Todd
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The Visigoths edited by Peter HeatherBook Review by Ian Hughes First published in 1999, this is one of a series of books published by the San Marino Center for Interdisciplinary Research on Social Stress (CIROSS). It is the result of a three day conference in which eleven papers were presented. The papers cover topics from before the foundation of the
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A chance discovery of coins has led to the bigger find of a Roman town, further west than it was previously thought Romans had settled in England. The town was found under fields a number of miles west of Exeter, Devon. Nearly 100 Roman coins were initially uncovered there by two amateur archaeological enthusiasts. It had been thought that fierce resistance from local tribes to Roman culture stopped the Romans from moving so far into the county... ...full article at the BBC
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A group of amateur archaeologists has been breaking new ground on a former Roman fort in Cumbria. The Lunesdale archaeology group has been digging at Low Borrowbridge Farm, next to the M6 in the Tebay gorge. So far they have found walls, the remains of an ancient central heating system and a giant arrowhead from a artillery ballista... ...full article at the BBC
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All the best to our Gladiatrix!
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...nice article on espionage in byzantine times... Industrial espionage
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I was just saying to myself the other day: I wish there were a book on a particular Greco-Roman fountain. And that it would be $75. LOL, I thought however, that this one would have interested you Mushrooms, Myth and Mithras: The Drug Cult that Civilized Europe
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...so i finally broke through the 110 kg barrier, phew, lot of sweating involved. Since my personal training session, i also noticed that i am a weakling, almost everyone seems to be able to lift twice as heavy weights then me, but i work on it..., so next stop is then breaking through the 240 pound barrier, i keep you posted....