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  1. Favonius Cornelius
    The same Jean Luc who captained the good ship NCC-1701D?
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    Hahahah when I first saw the title I jumped into the thread but I see a far more wise man on the subject has already led the charge. *stands aside*
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    Well, maybe 1,000 years from now people will be amazed by a flattened raccoon. Could lead to the discovery of a previously unknown raccoon civilization...which adopted Roman ways after their fall.
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    Roman pagan priests in all their forms could marry, albeit with some rules and regulations for some of them like the Flamen Dialis, but often I think it would not be surprising to find a cult outpost established in some corner of the empire, say perhaps a Mithradic one, where the priests were all males and bachelors. My bet is that this sort of heavy religious devotion runs back further than Christianity.
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    Virgil outlines it well I think. The brilliance of Caesar is not necessarily being the best of all time at one thing in particular, but being so damned good at so many things. A genius polymath, the sum total of which accomplished more than any one man I know has ever done before or since. Those who hate him for whatever reason, try to point out that he was not best at one particular thing and avoid this truth of the whole.
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    I bet you anything it was those Celtic sympathizer hackers!
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    Oh I agree. It's am amusing thing to me the parity of income between predominantly conservative and democratic states. Conservatives typically are the ones who drive for less social programs and public spending on things like getting people jobs, liberals the opposite, for various reasons. Yet when you compare the sum total of income from these states you find that the mostly democratic states make 60-70% of the income of the United States. So Utah, geet a haircut and geet a jeorb!
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    Both are trapped. In a way, a common man has more freedom than both.
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    Do those dingos still take babies?
  10. Favonius Cornelius
    Just satire folks sorry.
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    I've changed the Ethics forum into a more comprehensive Culture forum.. hopefully that will suit our needs. At some point we can always add subforums if the demand is there. Via Senatus Consultum? Yay! I fully agree with the alteration.
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    Should Puerto Rico become the 51st state of the union and what ramifications would this have on the culinary scope of American cuisine? How does this relate to Cuba's Elian?
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    I suppose there are a number of instances where the Gauls could have better used their forces, and a brilliant military mind of course could go a long way for the Gauls, but by and large I don't see much room for improvement for them. Personally I think the only place in which cavalry can really have a superior situation over Roman infantry would be open plains coupled with the use of horse archers. Gaul was mostly a hilly and forest laden place, not great for cavalry formation movement and they did not have horse archers from what I have ever heard.
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    I'm confused here. So are you folks telling me that the vast riches of Constantinople were based on farming in Asia Minor?! Constantinople's whole reputation was its wealth from trade, so does it not count for a large portion of the Empire's wealth?
  15. Favonius Cornelius
    Science is a religion, and the new religion is Science.
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    Gladiator

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    Phil: here is a man ready for promotion. I don't even know though I thought I knew all the old movies, was it called Thermopylae?
  17. Favonius Cornelius
    It's weird, but I've been told i Look just like Christopher. With blond hair! (It's the Germanic in me.)
  18. Favonius Cornelius
    In both personal and political, I have to admit Marcus Aurelius' meditations have offered me another look on life when it seems against you. His stoic, perhaps pessimistic outlook gives one strength to look forward still rather than back.
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    All true, but I am curious: what is your point in telling this tale?
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    http://www.sculpturegallery.com/sculpture/dying_gaul.html They have this description of the source:
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    Needs password...
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    I could have sworn I read somewhere it was an original statue commissioned by none other than the conqueror himself, the big JC. Seems like too convenient an explanation though.
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    With some improvements to their armor the falx I think probably became no big deal. It is easier and safer to teach a great number of soldiers across the world to stab with a gladius than use the strength and skill demanding falx. Use of falx also prevents use of shield, and use of falx would prevent tight legionary formations. All told it was not a good weapon to adapt. It has a notorious reputation for the wounds it could give, and the fact that it actually wounded soldiers after decades of easy victory.
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    Seas are a lot easier to travel on than dense forests with no roads.
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    I've heard the theory that the Coliseum was built purely from the riches taken from Jerusalem when it was sacked by Vespasian and Titus. From the point of view of asset to the empire, it was just one of those vital links on the fringes that had to be controlled, rather than some great economic asset. Most of it is desert or badland.
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