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What were the banners of the legions? I think I saw them once on this site. Of particular interest are the 5th legion, the praetorian guard, and the emperor himself. I see what's on the wikipedia, and I wondered if everyone thought they were legit? I don't want to lead any witnesses.

I'm trying to import my profile picture from facebook. A message says "your content will need to be approved by a moderator." The size of my profile picture on facebook is less than 0.1 MB.

left: Karl Marx John Maynard Keynes Paul Krugman Libertarian: Thomas Jefferson David Ricardo (1) Andrew Jackson Grover Cleveland Warren G Harding Calvin Coolidge Ludwig Von Mises (2) Joseph Schumpeter (3) Friedrick von Hayek (4) Raymond Moley (5) Paul Volcker (6) Robert Reich (7) Marc Faber (8) right: Adam Smith Alexander Hamilton Irving Fisher Milton Friedman Ronald Reagan Arthur Laffer Larry Kudlow Donald Moffitt

The converse question is really important, were there any Etruscan areas in Greece or Anatolia?

What was the name of the Hellenic region in Italy? What dialect did they speak? Magna Graecia, according to the wikipedia is Achean, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magna_Graecia. But according to the Hellenic language tree, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hellenic_languages, the Greeks who mixed with Romans were Ionians.

What does the Etruscan alphabet look like and what are its antecedents? It's hard to get a straight answer out of the wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etruscan_language It appears the best answer for the language is that it is semitic. The best answer for the alphabet is that it is semitic as well? But semites used ideograms! If the alphabet is derived from Greek, let's see the symbols. If I understand correctly, semitic is a famly of languages that came to dominate the middle east after the old kingdom/new kingdom break. I suppose it would be a transfer of dominance from Sumer to Akkad in the middle east. The dominate semitic dialect became Akkadian, but I haven't had enough time to read everything I want to and I never will. As Gandalf said, there is never enough time. Anyway, has anyone ever compared Etruscan to Egyptian? I'm shooting in the dark, but so is the wikipedia. Isn't pharaoh "Great House" in Etruscan? What was the "real" title of the Egyptian ruler? I'm going to head to the library and check worldbook. I know it used to be there. It starts with an 'm'?

At the time of the 2nd Punic War, what was the region of Italy where the Greek speaking peoples lived called?

How many companions, thereabouts, did Hadrian have on his travels around the empire?

What was the name of the gold reserves?

Are Greek and Etruscan languages similar or have any common antecedents?

What was the name of the wall before Hadrian's Wall?

Wasn't there a book about how a Roman legionnaire, required to march 20 miles in a day with his weight on his back, was stronger than a modern marathon runner?

Does anyone know the name of the guy who left the FDR administration (civil service) and wrote a book criticizing its policies?

Vietnam war started with Versailles peace conference in 1919 where Ho Chi Minh showed up As a member of the 1991–1993 Senate Select Committee on POW/MIA Affairs, chaired by fellow Vietnam War veteran and Democrat, John Kerry, McCain investigated the Vietnam War POW/MIA issue, to determine the fate of U.S. service personnel listed as missing in action during the Vietnam War. The committee's unanimous report stated there was "no compelling evidence that proves that any American remains alive in captivity in Southeast Asia."[106] Helped by McCain's efforts, in 1995 the U.S. normalized diplomatic relations with Vietnam. In January 2007, Congress approved Permanent Normal Trade Relations (PNTR) for Vietnam. Books: Inside Delta Force: The Story of America's Elite Counterterrorist UnitJan 23, 2007 by Eric Haney; Kill Anything That Moves: The Real American War in Vietnam (American Empire Project)Dec 31, 2013 by Nick Turse American Conservative articles: McCain and the POW Cover-Up The “war hero” candidate buried information about POWs left behind in Vietnam. By Sydney Schanberg • July 1, 2010 Vietnam: A War on Civilians By Chase Madar • July 30, 2013 The GOP’s Vietnam How Republican foreign policy lost the culture war—and a generation By Daniel McCarthy • March 17, 2013 Vietnam And The Father Of Lies By Rod Dreher • July 23, 2014,

I read somewhere online recently, that the problem that Christians had with gladiatorial combat was that the emperors have the power to redeem the gladiators, which goes against the central tenet of Christian faith that there is salvation only through Christ. I am wondering, is it only the emperor's power to declare a gladiator a free Roman citizen that bothered early Christians or was it simply the authority to decide life or death for a defeated gladiator? I also kind of wonder what theologians make of the presidential pardon power. Here in the U.S., felons are denied the right to vote and the president has the power to restore it.

Yes, basically, it was the ass end of the earth. And I don't know that Rome ever generated surplus tax revenue from England and Wales. When you move to a standing army permanently garrisoned on the frontier there is no way around the fact that you are no longer going to be able to rely on middle class people taking a break from their day job to form the rank and file of your army.

Are you suggesting the empire could have been maintained without a standing professional army? It wasn't until the 2nd Punic War that the Roman army became standing. That war brought the heyday of the Republic to an end. I simply don't believe that Rome could have continued to be successful with the continued policy of assigning specialization (like cavalry) based on socioeconomic status. That's a very medieval way of doing things, and notice that modern armies aren't organized that way. The Roman empire was amazingly risk averse when it came to conquests. Trajan is the only emperor post Julius Caesar to make any significant gains, and he gave them all up before he died because he was concerned with putting too much pressure on his successors to maintain the conquests. My own favorite causation is that skilled Greek slaves ruined the Roman middle class. But it isn't the only one. In fact, the more I think about this it is my intuition that the Marius "reforms" were recognition of changes that had already taken place. Just as the US army cheats on eligibility requirements when it becomes hard to recruit, I expect that recruiting the landless urban poor is something that was already practiced. With the twin pressures of a devastated middle class and maintaining a standing professional army on the frontier, I don't see how the reforms could have waited until the first century BC.

I get too much of my history from Wikipedia and the Hitler Channel. From those sources I would deduce that more death and destruction happened during Justinian's reconquest of Italy but I have been challenged on this. I wanted to know what the experts here have to say. Is there a better reference for the history that is readily available?

His 3 best albums IMO were Rainbow Rising, Heaven and Hell, and Magica. With the exception of the song "Rainbow in the Dark," which still wasn't the equal of his best material with the previous two bands, I am not the biggest fan of his early "solo" material. I like Rainbow better than Deep Purple, but I think Ian Gillan was a better singer for Ritchie than Dio, but not for Tony. I think Magica is the true standout of the "Dio" labeled material. It's nice that he got to end his career with his version of Black Sabbath, which is where I always thought he belonged.

I found this old thread by searching for "baboon." Is there any truth to the tale? Who was that king supposed to be? Cassius raised funds for an army by training a baboon to f*** a Roman woman?

It was really cool when they showed this being used in the Rome television series. I watched it on DVD and activated the commentary boxes - which emphasized that it has more power when done with the left hand. And the proper spelling is malocchio. Incidentally, Black Sabbath and Ronnie James Dio have gotten back together and are going to do a new full-length studio album. I never thought that I would see the day, truly sevil natas. This was probably prompted when Iron Maiden was on the Ozzfest bill and singer Bruce Dickinson repeatedly bashed Black Sabbath for being an embarassing nostalgia band that only plays songs from the 70's.

I feel like I am beating a dead horse, but is it possible they would have needed a translator? (Did I ask that question years ago?)

The notion that Roman "decadence" caused its fall is a myth concocted by Christians in the middle ages as an explanation to the peasants for why God would allow something as horrendously bad as the fall of the Roman Empire. The notion that ethnic impurity would cause decadence is complete nonsense, the decadence was caused because they were wealthy, and they weren't wealthy because of constant warfare, they were wealthy because they had a vibrant economy. Whether constant CIVIL war had negative cultural impact is an interesting question.

I was watching the end of the 100 most metal moments on VH-1. It's a 10 hour long countdown that is played for laughts. Things like Jimmy Page purchasing Alister Crowley's castle, a band of midgets forming mini-KISS, and a volcano erupting 20 minutes after shooting part of a music video at the peak for Dokken are on the list. Anyway, #3 in the countdown is the "devil horns salute" which looks identical to the "hook-em horns" sign for the Texas Longhorns. For an example of the confusion this can cause, look here http://www.roadrun.com/blabbermouth.net/ne...ewsitemID=31833 Anyway, the man credited for inventing the devil horns salute by VH-1 is Ronnie James Dio, who was the singer for Black Sabbath at the time he started it. (It is mentioned that Gene Simmons claims that he did it first on the cover of "Love Gun.") Ronnie James Dio explains that he learned it from his grandmother who called it the (sounds like) mo-loik or muh-loik with the accent on the second syllable. Ronnie said that doing it in the hook-em horns style (he didn't say anything about Texas, but there's no other way to explain the image) is done to protect yourself from the evil eye and that if you point your index and pinky finger outwards you are giving the evil eye to someone (cut to Dio giving the evil eye to his audience at the end of a show). Ronnie says that he won't take credit for inventing it, but he will take credit for making it popular. I am posting here because this sounds like some sort of pagan thing, and this is one of the few places in the world that has pagan readers. Is there any more that can be learned here about the moloik?

What are the monks who smack themselves in the head with boards saying? In Latin and translated into English.