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That's right--and there are Carthaginians not far from Chicago too! http://www.carthage.lib.il.us/ I suppose a few hundred miles is pretty close. By the way, there happens to be a town called Hannibal in Ohio right?

This first one is about: Whales Found to Speak in Dialects. Seriously, this thing is very well documented and studied. Quote from article:"Some whale species sing in different dialects depending on where they're from, a new study shows.Blue whales off the Pacific Northwest sound different than blue whales in the western Pacific Ocean, and these sound different than those living off Antarctica.And they all sound different than the blue whales living near Chile." Just read the article. In other news, "Mo. Researchers Find Largest Prime Number": The number that the team found is 9.1 million digits long. It is a Mersenne prime known as M30402457

Heavens, you're right. So anything young is sacrificed right?

* I think I hear the sound of a whip* Just kidding. This might be a good site on child sacrfice in Carthage. Link to site Oh by the way, I suppose the Bible is another good source, since semitic people and religions are involved here. The bible makes many references to the ritual of child sacrifice of other religions.

May I respectully introduce the Mongols as an army that could have defeated well-disciplined heavy infantry. 50,000 men on horseback that uses a extremely good tactic by confusing the enemy with charge and dispursements tactics relentlessly that the enemy would feel outnumbered only to be surrounded by moving part of their forces into the wrong place.

Link to Article GREENVILLE - They're two completely different types of fasteners. Archaeologists working with the Queen Anne's Revenge Project have found a coat button and some hardware that looks like it might be part of a set of shackles - both items that could have belonged to the pirate Blackbeard or one of his crew. The artifacts are buried in separate concretions of sand and shell raised from a shipwreck on the ocean floor. "We're planning to work on the two concretions during January to extract the button and the possible shackles," said Sarah Watkins-Kenney, who heads up the QAR Conservation lab in Greenville. They know the items are there because they had the concretions x-rayed. At least they know the button is there. They're not certain the other item is shackles. "We can't be 100 percent sure until we excavate the concretion," Watkins-Kenney said. Archaeologists also cannot be sure how significant the artifacts will be to tying the shipwreck to Blackbeard until they chisel away the hardened layers surrounding them. The button is about three-quarters of an inch wide, made of a copper alloy or pewter and appears well-preserved, Watkins-Kenney said. (note full article)

In the Peru's Andean foothills, a group of archaeologists say they have found remnants of the oldest known irrigation canals in South America, which they hope will provide clues to the origin of the region's agriculturally based societies. "There are four sites in the area that have canals that date minimally 5,300 years ago, maybe a little earlier," team leader Tom D. Dillehay, an archaeologist at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, told The Associated Press. Dillehay started his research nearly 30 years ago in the Zana Valley, 37 miles inland from the Pacific Ocean and about 385 miles northwest of Lima.

Link to article VIENNA, Austria - Have scientists found Mozart's skull? Researchers said Tuesday they'll reveal the results of DNA tests in a documentary film airing this weekend on Austrian television as part of a year of celebratory events marking the composer's 250th birthday. The tests were conducted last year by experts at the Institute for Forensic Medicine in the alpine city of Innsbruck, and the long-awaited results will be publicized in "Mozart: The Search for Evidence," to be screened Sunday by state broadcaster ORF. Past tests were inconclusive, but this time, "we succeeded in getting a clear result," lead researcher Dr. Walther Parson, a renowned forensic pathologist, told ORF. He said the results were "100 percent verified" by a U.S. Army laboratory, but refused to elaborate.

I think you mean Jubilate Deo? "Shout with joy to God." You're right. Its the mistake of hearing the wrong pronunciation. It even ponders me more how people listen to opera.

Even I don't get why they don't bother making battle epics. I mean seriously, technology has advance so much today that costs for making a full battle scene is not that very expensive. For example, if anyone has watched Stargate SG-1, that show has many fictional stuff, its all graphics yet its low budget. Nevertheless, it still looks good. I suppose the creators of Rome were on a tight schedule or they're real dramatists.

Imperium praestigia est. Figmentum is a word that means fiction, so I suppose you can use it. I'm not so sure myself if the meaning of praestigia is truly classical meaning illusion/deception. Everything is in the nominative since you're stating that power/authority and illusion are the same thing.Another word for power is auctoritas, mainly meaning authority. By the way, don't trust my advice, nor bother tell you're friend yet, my expertise is often wrong. I'm going to have to wait for you, Scerio, to correct me.

You get the 'My Posts per Day are more than double that of anyone in the Patrician group' award. My, I have too much time on my hand.

Oh don't mind me. I know my views are stupid, which is why each time I put them up, so as not to argue, I admit my views as biased and in brackets to avoid less controversey than by trying to say that I'm right.

Let's not go there. [note: I am a Republican, so therefore my views are biased] Sad to say, we as a nation just can't help bullying others. But then again, who would you rather have helping the world. The UN or US. Ask people that and they tell you how the UN does nothing and that only leaves the US. Oh, another reason is tha America has "money." Nations would gladly anytime take our money, so therefore, we have every right to interfere.

Sorry, but what do you mean by tribal assembly? Its true we are not a real democracy, least no to say that we can't call ourselves that since we value its ideals.

So uhm, what title is after Legatus Legionis?

I'm gonna sound stupid, but I'm gonna say it. : I personally believe the armies were the problem. As you know that each general had a major army. Perhaps you would make a list of generals and make a rotation out of it, so the generals wouldn't have a firm footing with each army so that each army would have problems favoring one general they could fight for? Also, don't allow extentsion of offices such as governorship and limit a governor to only one province. You all know how Julius Caesar got those 8 legions, because he was governor of at least 3 provinces.

Dominate anyone. I understand as a system, it seems inferior to the Republic because Emperors easily could have been corrupted. But the creation of the dominate along with tetrarchy did help put down the power of the army because killing one emperor would be useless since there would be 3 others with armies who can put down the rebellion. Sometimes, you truly needed only one person to rule. Also the Republic doesn't offer equality among the provinces and its people, Rome was the center power. It was until Diocletian that Emperors did the right thing by being based in regions where they were needed of strategic importance, lest any incursion or rebellion started. Yeah, my opinions are a bit messy.

The truth is out there.--> Veritas foras est. I wouldn't use illic since its points directly to one point instead of out there some where vaguely. I used foras( or peregri) because its an adverb meaning out of doors/ abroad. Trust no one.---> Nulli crede. Imperative, but the verb must be used with the dative and the word nemo is sorta irregular being that it has no plural and it has no gen or dative, so you have to use nullus,-a,-um. I'm not so sure about the first one, I may be totally wrong with the choice of words.

Though that is a good example and that the longbow is very deadly, this example resulted more because the terrain. Having to fight in such a narrow area and horrible ground/ weath conditions is extremely disadvantageous. Being the army that has more men who are unruly and undisciplined results in everyone wants glory for themselves and so there is no formation, yet people riding up and getting shot down because they were so bunched. When they tried to retreat, it only got worse with the mud and heavy armor. So I don't know if I would use it as a case for disciplined army beats calvary. If the battle was the plains, the result would have been different.

There are alot of images available of Nero's mother. This one is the most flattering. http://dominae.fws1.com/Graphics/agrippina_minor.jpg Not sure if any of the images that claim to be of Vipsania Agrippa (Tiberius' first wife) are actually of her though. They seem to be of both Nero's mother and grandmother. I greatly appreciate the extra info. I'm still in amazement of the beautiful busts.

Nova Carthago, heck, you just caused the enemy to lose a prime source of real fighting soldiers and other resources, not to mention the abundant metals (especially gold) needed to make weapons,armor, et alia.

Just wonder, how exactlyis Basileia Romaion and Romaoi pronounced.