Ursus
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I read a bit of fantasy/sci-fi as well. I particularly remember Jordan's "Wheel of Time" saga. I stopped somewhere after the 8th book in the series.
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Brave New World was a favorite of mine in my teens.
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Engaging prose, believable characters, a thrilling plot and a large measure of historical validity. I can't get much more specific without actually writing the novel myself.
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I never actually saw it. It was one of those films where the common viewer was more interested in the leading star's purportedly large sex organ than in any historical validity to the film. Everything I heard about it turned me off. As I recall it didn't last long in the theaters. Including his voicing of "Boss Nass" in Star Wars I. "
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6940962.stm
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/200708...renglishchannel
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http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/science/08/09...reut/index.html
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A better question then: who plans to enter as a contestant?
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Top 10 - History's Most Overlooked Mysteries
Ursus replied to Viggen's topic in Historia in Universum
I didn't think the fall of the Minoans was all that mysterious. Every book I read suggested a combination of natural disasters and invasions finished them off, only the precise details are unknown. As for Robin Hood ...is this really a big deal? I would think King Arthur would be a more intriguing history. -
Sep 16th. Click on the link in the first post, it explains everything.
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Anyone interested?
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Where is the Royal Shakespeare company?
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I read the Egyptian Book of the Dead, but I suspect Roman funerary practices are not as exciting.
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The last 3 months or so I haven't seen any books I want to buy. There is the Augustus book, but I have enough books on Augustus. Meh.
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Best Buy prices for Rome 2 beats Amazon. Thanks for the tip, Nephele.
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Congratulations to you, Doctor.
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Nero didn't start the fire. It was always burning since the world was turning. This has been an Elton John moment. We now return you to your regular thread discussion.
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Greek experts to excavate Alexander's colony in Kuwait
Ursus replied to Viggen's topic in Archaeological News: The World
An excellent discovery. Hopefully we will see some interesting information be recovered. -
Very interesting. The Aztecs are the one civilization beyond the Roman & related cultures that interests me. If only I had the time to devote to study them in depth .... but alas, I don't.
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Does he wear an Indiana Jones hat?
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I'm glad you found it helpful.
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The New Age business deliberately distorts history. The Celts are everything from the survivors of Atlantis to brothers of the Hindus, depending on the spiritual needs of the clientele. It's designed to sell books, CDs and other items. The Celts of their marketing are seldom the Celts of history. As for Ellis ... meh. I reviewed one of his books for this site. I think he is a modern polemicist with an agenda to turn the Celts into Europe's great Uber-race. He's at the opposite end of the New Age - the nationalist.
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The Vedic precursors of The Hindus were Indo-European cousins to the Celts. They are distantly related, not closely related.
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I find it enlightening and useful that one of the few failures of the Augustan regime (the other being the massacre of the legions in Germany) was his legislation on what we might call Family Values. He couldn't even keep his own family under control. But even if legislating morality was a bad idea, I think it speaks well of Augustus that he was willing to punish his own daughter.