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A goth pict queen. Nice!

I'll rather believe roman decorators then "experts", they had at least seen Ancient Rome.

For a man who believed that his father was poisoned, who had seen his mother and his two older brothers killed and who's sister betrayed him, Gaius did fine. Of course after that he was not suited for politics, but we don't do much better. Imagine having your brother starving to death, eating the straws of his bedding, and then tell me your fine. Gaius had problems and the empire was restless. Nobody could have make it.

I like more the Alcazar of Sevilla, largely built by the Christian king of Castile Pedro in modejar style. But Alhambra it's more politically interesting for those promoting arab/islamic culture and despising western/christian Middle Ages.

There is hot link on the name of the mine and on the linked page I found a paragraph about the mine. "To gain full economic advantage from their conquest, the Romans were quick to exploit the lead mines of the Mendip Hills. They already knew about the richness of this lead which contained a high proportion of silver, and by AD. 49 were stamping lead ingots or 'pigs' with the Emperor Claudius's name, for the right to mine precious metals was vested in the Emperor and the mines were worked as a state concern, probably with forced labour under military control. A branch road was constructed to link with the Fosse Way, and the lead was exported through Clausentum, near Southampton, or Noviomagus, the Roman name for Chichester." There is also a map showing "lead mines" near Charterhouse. I have no idea if that mines on the map are the Mendip ones. Air polution from roman mining in Spain have been found in the icecap of Groenlanda.

I largely agree with this article http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200905/imf-advice Bailouts and stimulus plans are immoral and only prolong the crisis. Many features of the economy of the last years are gone: securities, the real estate boom, highly priced commodities, the chinese financing US consumption, hedge fond expansion etc. The economic system is crazy. International banks were not interested by Romania until a real estate boom draw them here where they invested billions of euros creating deflation and ending with loads of dubious mortgages on grossly overpriced communist made apartments. Now they are freezing credit paralyzing the economy and send home their money creating inflation. Everybody knew that the bubble will burst as there were many new investments while the demand was failing but competition made the banks take greater risks. In the 5 years between 2003 and 2008 real estate prices increased at least 10 times fueled by lending made by international banks.

Most romans. When they had the chance they fought for Pompey and his gang.

I hope that the defeat in Austria (after so many) will rid us of the coach Piturca.

Austria vs. Romania tonight. Either team has little chances of qualifying. Romania has the worst results in history and was defeated at home by Serbia this weekend.

I think AIG it's now largely owned by the government. The problem is that this bailout programs are very unfair. The perceived culprits get away with a large amount of money because the government wants to help and not to punish the banks while perceived innocents suffer.

A good point indeed. If Verus established himself as a military leader he could have become a threat to the senior emperor by getting the support of the legions.

I believe that he was at least a decent military leader successfully facing attacks on the entire northern frontier at a moment when the empire and it's leadership was weakened by plague. He definitely spend a lot of time fighting the invaders so was at least a very dedicated leader.

...and scratching and biting in frenzied blood lust

Galba had chosen an unknown noble as heir, Piso, while Nerva appointed a powerful military commander. Maybe if Galba had made a better pick, like Vespasian that was leading an army in Judeea, he would have survived.

An IHT article about a "heretic" Dyson, pre-eminent physicist, challenges consensus on climate change For more than half a century, the eminent physicist Freeman Dyson has quietly resided in Princeton, New Jersey, on the wooded former farmland that is home to his employer, the Institute for Advanced Study, the United States' most rarefied community of scholars. Lately, however, since he came "out of the closet as far as global warming is concerned," as Mr. Dyson sometimes puts it, there has been noise all around him. Chat rooms, Web threads, editors' letter boxes and Mr. Dyson's own e-mail queue resonate with a thermal current of invective in which Mr. Dyson has discovered himself variously described as "a pompous twit," "a cesspool of misinformation" and, perhaps inevitably, "a mad scientist." http://www.iht.com/articles/2009/03/27/hea...ience/dyson.php

Happy Birthday!

Nice. Thank you for sharing!

Very funny! Here he makes a short mention of Caesar http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ya5ETzdlbbE...feature=related He has a lot of historical jokes.

"Niels Bohr, J. Robert Oppenheimer" So, you are making atomic bombs?

Romans were very weak at ideologies but very practical. Augustus had no plan on what to do and Caesar and Antonius were as clueless. They all wanted power. Lots of power. Octavian had the chance to experiment with power and benefited from previous experiences. Marcus Antonius failed. If he had won the war he would have become Augustus Caesar like Octavian did. Or he would have got himself killed and the game would continue. All roman civil wars were about who not how. So calling them "civil" wars it's wrong. They were competitions among military leaders with no political/ideological meaning.

"Celts" lived in many areas near or within Dacia as the "celts" are supposed to originate from Central Europe. There were groups that lived in the Middle Danube valley ( today Hungary) and Transilvania and were defeated by Burebista. Others lived for 100 years in Tracia, as the kingdom of Tylis. From this group the Galatians of Anatolia branched out. There were other groups in the central and western Balkans. East of dacians there were the bastarnae and other celts living in Moldova and Ukraine reaching the Black Sea and the steppes. For some 300 years celts lived in Dacia and even more time in neighboring regions. Dacian material culture had many La Tene elements, including celtic iron working, but the language was a branch of tracian and the religion had some unique aspects.

That invasion came, in the beginning, from Raetia, the region north of Italy.

Very nice! Have a great time in Caput Mundi, sis

Starting with this one I looked at other videos with him, so, yeah his humor it's a bit sick in a funny way.

This guy it's sick. I never laughed so much in a long time.