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Onasander

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  1. http://www.innovations-report.com/html/rep...port-54055.html The Sahara has not always been the arid, inhospitable place that it is today
  2. Bill Thayer has been a great role model for me, the first roman military text I read was his copy of Frontinus, I also enjoyed reading his travel accounts. I WILL have a website like that someday, feel free to contact me then if we ever fall out of touch (because I him I started typing out Mao's Guerrilla Warfare, only to watch some damn communist website put it out before me. I was so sad.)
  3. I do believe this is a fair alternative for people who like these kinds of debates. If people start spiraling down the what if road for more than a coule of posts, let's just refer them over to that site. Don't ban them or put them down, just make it clear this site supports one genra of historical discussion, and a good alternative to look up would be to click this link. Opposites of the same coin, might as well embrace and use it to our advantage so the posters on this site can get maximun knowledge and enjoyment.
  4. serial killers venerial disease
  5. DSL, I started downloading movies off of eMule yesterday, and am just now getting them! I'm going to have to get dial up as well, we go to Iraq in Oct, but we're also going on 3 one month deployments all over, so I'll have to dial in local off the phoneline there when not trapped out in the field. (The handmaiden isn't working) P.S., Viggen, I went to that stumble search page, I'm just as impressed! You'ved found the cure to the common bore. I'll be sending some paid women your way here soon.
  6. Pandora is absolutely amazing! I thank you so much, I have the hardest time finding the music I like, and it's hit my genra.... my genra that I didn't even know exsisted, in two tries! Your amazing, if I was a woman, or gay, I'ld go down on you... but I'm not, so instead accept my gratitude!
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  8. It's not porobable this is true, not to say the priests did not believe this. How do I know this? The images were made of wood. How many roman wooden statues have made it to the present? Even under the best of care, kept from humidity and the elements, they would of been destroyed in one of the fires that plauged the ancient villages and cities, or damaged when the temple would be looted. Further more, it only stated " they traced descent through the whole line of three hundred and forty-five figures", it did limit range of causal interactions strictly to a father-son relationship. The pluralism of they suggest the other priests were brothers and most would not be eligable for having their own statue. This also suggest that the priests either did not have a stratified class of their own, or if they did, did not let this play into account when picking wives. The imbreeding surely would of sterilized them all.
  9. Oh, I can't use it CTRL C/V won't work, oh my agony!
  10. She still had an occasional dream, but I havn't heard of a negative one, save for my columbus story. It was, from how it was explained to me, anti-climatic, quick, and business like. Like I said, it was just the baptismal rites, something she was well aquainted with having been going to church for years. I know we all want exercismst to be a cool and dramatic event, steeped in mysticism and the supernatural, but really, why should it be?
  11. I don't see how the roman military could of made timezones, logistically the clocks would never of made it far enough to keep their accuracy, and I doubt the romans set up astronomical calculations to figure out the exact time... however, in an citizen army, you do need to partition the watches out equally, so I suspect each commander set up his own SOP for dividing the day and night shifts equally(it can't possibly be universal- clouds block the stars, the cold would freeze the waterclocks, seasonal signs, like insects awakening would change, even patroling with measured steps would differ given if the soldier is injured or tired/well rested. Perhaps they took a less complicated approach as they do in the US army while in garrision.... 24 hour long CQ and Staff Duty shifts.
  12. Is it possible to somehow engineer it so that UNRV is presented as our homepage, but have it structured like CNN giving the lo-down on archeological/historical news, as well as user suggested links and access to the google or msn search engine? Also, can you make covered in a white mask instead of a black, cause I'm an Arctic Ninja, gotta blend in.
  13. I was the one who started the whole nationstates commotion on this site, but finally had to let my nation die with dignity and respect, knowing full well it wouldn't survive my future deployments.
  14. We can thank Hamilcar Barca for doing all those searches on NZ's MSN Homepage, it's probably the reason the noticed the site in the first place.
  15. I know someone who had an excorism, but she's greek orthodox. It was just the baptism rights though, no head spinning or vomiting out peas. Poor woman, the only real psychic I know. She used to have dreams of people's funerals a week or so before she died, and everyone used to freak out if she started looking at them with a frightened/sorrowed expression. One time (years after the excorcism) she had a bad dream about driving out to Columbus, Ohio (two hour drive away) in the middle of the night for herself, and wanted me to come with her; I of course flat out refused and said she was nuts for wanting to drive after having experianced the dream. Everyone was upset that I refused, but I ain't sorry, she say it coming and my refusal gave her enough excuse to call the trip off. I know the Catholics (I am technically one) have devoloped a more drawn out rite than just re-baptising the person, and don't quite understand the principles that motivate them.... hey, the dark ages were dark not because there was no light in the lamp, but rather cause there was no glow from the T.V.; they had to make their own entertainment with long and excruciating excorcisms.
  16. It looks fake, but no doubt it is real, for who would care to make such a obvious forgery!
  17. I just got internet access in my place recently, before I was using my buddies wireless access till he moved out, then for the last few months I've been without cept a occasional jump on someone elses computer to check my email out. I spent all night downloading stuff off of emule, tried to track down the name of the chinese monestary which supposely has records over 5,000 years old (the one near the equally mysterious white pyrimid), and spent the rest of the night on meaningless searches. I need a atlas- a historical-military atlas of the net. The best sites to hit, like UNRV, and my mind isn't fertile enough to find many outstanding sites by googling, so I'll ask you instead, what's your favorite sites to hit on the net?
  18. Hmmm, so I got my point across finally(Caesar Tour de France). I now will cease my campaign to become tribune, given this was my central position. ???
  19. The Gothic period of the roman empire reminds me of the old Liberian Frontier Force(LLF). You could draw many general principles of statecraft from the histories of these two nations.
  20. Those sick f$%^s, whooo, whyyyy?!?! This reminds me of an old college professor I had; it's what happens when society convinces itself of the authority of a group of highly educated pristhood/professors who long divorced from the actions that catapulted thier order into exsistance, one day find thier actions unobstructed.... one day, thier thinking about theology, and they try to rationalize it, but since their so seperated from society and reality they soon lose tract of thier purpose and then suddenly find themselves sacrificing cute little puppies or making Aphrodite the goddess of the sewers.
  21. Where does this come from, I havn't looked into Egyptian pyramid building indepth since the second grade, so don't really know the current theories on it's engineering and construction. Also, what was that talk about Monotheism being inflicted upon the Egyptians? The political battle between the priests in Karnak vs. Ahmenhotep doesn't resemble the introduction of Christianity into Egypt in the least, unless you got a couple of sources I havn't read (it's a possibility given I'm not an expert on Eqyptian history) How did Ptolemaic administration differ from others of the ancient world? Also, I remember reading about a greek Island within the delta BEFORE Alaxander's conquest that the Egyptians used to for trading and allowed the greeks to operate freely from there, but the Egyptians kept control of it and even banished people to it. Does anyone know it's name, and if it differs from the rest of Egypt in character or race even to today?
  22. I didn't know that came from Sullust's garden.... and wait... shoot. I still havn't finished that book review on his works. Better go finish that up now.
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