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We're just supporting our Nigerian brothers as American oil companies have been using their seas and rivers as a dumping ground for years. Solidarity! Cheers Russ Royal Dutch Shell it's doing most of pollution in Nigeria and it's an anglo-dutch company. Solidarity indeed! http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/05/opinion/...html?ref=global I could bet that Brazil will win again but I really hope somebody else, from Europe, will. I have to see the teams playing to pick someone too root for.

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The Republic was wistfully remembered by stoic Romans and by corrupt Emperors, such as Brutus, Caesar and Caligula. Institutional heritage provided a reassuring but challenging area for hereditary transmitted psychological damage, like his self infatuation which completely failed putative emperor Brutus who bathed in his own blood was missing a testical and had an extremely long cucumber growing on the left side of his beautiful piebald spotted beard. But I digress. While sticking my caligii into the most probably dirtiest orifice of the Clocia Maxia, I curse your maiores and I bless

Wow, you really are in a giving mode!

This is amazing. I had no idea English it's so Latin. Romans left us an amazing legal heritage that it is very much alive in most countries of the world. I also appreciate their rationalism and their inclusive religion.

I often find, create or buy things like that one. In WoW.

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http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/25/science/...ref=global-home Climate Fears Turn to Doubts Among Britons "Last month hundreds of environmental activists crammed into an auditorium here to ponder an anguished question: If the scientific consensus on climate change has not changed, why have so many people turned away from the idea that human activity is warming the planet? Nowhere has this shift in public opinion been more striking than in Britain, where climate change was until this year such a popular priority that in 2008 Parliament enshrined targets for emissions cuts as national law. But since then, the country has evolved into a home base for a thriving group of climate skeptics who have dominated news reports in recent months, apparently convincing many that the threat of warming is vastly exaggerated. A survey in February by the BBC found that only 26 percent of Britons believed that

Mentality is even today the most challenging aspect of top-down efforts to spur innovation, efforts that usually fail. War is not always driving technology and for the entire empire history full of wars only Greek Fire seems to be an innovation, or rather a serious improvement over existing technology.

This feminist critique of the focus on the elites of traditional historiography it's the same with the ones that decry the neglect of commoners, poor, peasants, provincials etc and this led the creation of studies about every day lives and all categories of people. If for the Roman Empire we have enough information for this studies, for other societies, sadly, there is historical data only about the less then 1% that make up the political elite.

Bennett has a very informative biography but it's a rather boring reading. Did not read the others.

I've had this in my Amazon wishlist for a few months now. How does it compare to I, Claudius? I did not read I, Claudius so I can't compare. The book it's a letter that dying Hadrian it's sending to his young heir, Marcus Aurelius, retelling moments of his life, so it's written in first person. It's not dynamic or exciting but it is well written and it is immersing because it feels like it was written by him. I probably like it because I find the character of Hadrian fascinating even with his flaws; the passionate traveler, builder and efficient administrator, stoic and compassionate, that loved peace, greek culture and a bythnian boy it's very different from usual depictions of roman emperors that are either statue-like heroic generals and statesman or caricature-like cruel monsters. The period it's also fascinating with greek and roman traditional cultures at their peak.

The title "caesar" was reserved by romans for heirs apparent but this was no longer practiced during late "byzantine" period. The title "despot" would be the most appropriate for your son(s) from a byzantine stand point. In Russia after Peter proclaimed himself emperor "tsarevich" fell out of use and was replaced by "tsesarevich" or "caesarevich". Your heir should also be named Succesor = "Naslednik" and all your sons should be Grand Dukes = "Veliky Kniaz" In your full title should be also the byzantine title "autokrator".

In roman times the Siberian tiger had a much larger habitat including a western population named Caspian tigers. It is highly probable that tigers lived in areas of roman influence like Lazica (tigers are often present in Georgian legends) and Armenia and even in the provinces of Anatolia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caspian_Tiger

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It has some nice aspects but I am not a huge fan. This last episode was more dynamic but still very unbelievable. I like Morena Baccarin since Firefly and she is definitely a plus for the show. If V. with the alien invasion - human resistance plot it's a pretty stereotypical sci-fi I believe that Flash Forward it's much more original and I like it better.

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The Republic was wistfully remembered by stoic Romans and by corrupt Emperors, such as Brutus, Caesar and Caligula. Institutional heritage provided a reassuring but challenging area for hereditary transmitted psychological damage, like his self infatuation which completely failed putative emperor Brutus ... who bathed in ...

Latini became romans and some other provincials became Latins. Confusing...

In that case should I be worried that I don't seem to have received such a message as either a regular or a lapsed member We were persecuted!

...Brutus, Caesar and... Caligula. Institutional heritage provided a reassuring but challenging aria for hereditary transmitted

http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-r...the-mountaintop I like Colbert but it's annoying that I can't watch the full episodes. Great latin translation: http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-r...--caveat-emptor

Sorry for being confusing again. Following Popper I see Sparta as totalitarian, even more then the Zulu empire of Shaka, and I have a low opinion on it; while others see Sparta with the attributes I listed above (again - I disagree with them and I see Sparta as militaristic, static and elitist) I said rational because Sparta was seen as the result of the reforms of Lycurg, a society constructed according to a plan, like the various utopias thinkers like to come up with, then and now.

wistfully remembered by... by stoic romans and by corrupt