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• Learn Latin in Two Months

  
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  The Ancient Romans may be long gone, but their language is still very much with us today. There are many benefits to learning Latin . This is an outline of a two month course to give you a good footing in Latin. If you have a formal college class coming up or if you just want to sink your teeth in, this is the course ...
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• Piazza del Popolo’s Top 5 Vino con Vista Opportunities in Rome

  
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  Piazza del Popolo is one of my favorite pedestrian-only squares in Rome because it offers so many interesting sites and things to do. The Piazza is situated between the ancient Porta Flaminia and the park of the Pincio . Image via Wikipedia popolo archway The Porta Flaminia was one of the gates in ...
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• ‘Arab Nation’ Must Restore its Lost Willingness to Fight! (Kitabat, Iraq)

  
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  Are Arab states weak because they lack the spirit to fight against enemies other than themselves? For Iraq’s Kitabat , Nashwan al-Jurayssi writes that the ‘Arab nation’ have been knocked off balance by the West, and in order to revive itself, Arab attentions should be turned toward building a martial spirit ...
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• The Amazing Archbasilica of St. John Lateran is a UNESCO Site in Rome Italy

  
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  The Papal Archbasilica of St. John Lateran (San Giovanni in Laterano) is Rome’s cathedral. It serves as the the official ecclesiastical  seat of the Pope  as the Bishop of Rome . Pope Benedict celebrates the Mass for the feast of Corpus Christi here and then leads a Corpus Christi procession along ...
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• Wiker: Gay Marriage - Nothing New Under the Sun

  
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  Dr. Benjamin Wiker has written an important piece regarding the history of gay marriage in Rome.  This is a must-read, published in the Catholic World Report . Given that the gay marriage agenda will be increasingly pressed upon Catholics by the state, we should be much more aware of what history has to teach us ...
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• Ascend La Scala Sancta in Rome: The Holy Stairs that Jesus Climbed

  
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  Image by Stephen and Therese Jennings via Flickr Italiano: Affreschi del Sancta Sanctorum della Scala Santa. Roma. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) In close proximity to the archbasilica of Saint John Lateran in Rome , visit the Holy Stairs  or “La Scala Sancta.” For centuries, the Scala Sancta has ...
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• Interactive Maps of Travel Routes Throughout the Roman Empire

  
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  On Friday Open Culture posted a resource that I think anyone who teaches about the Roman Empire needs to check out right away. ORBIS is Stanford Universitys Geospatial Network Model of the Roman Empire. On ORBIS students can calculate the distance and travel times between 751 settlements in the Roman Empire. ...
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• Excerpt from Lily of the Nile: Selene Delivers a Basket #sixsunday

  
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  As part of my continued participation in the weekly Six Sentence Sunday exercise with other authors, here’s another snippet from my debut novel LILY OF THE NILE: A NOVEL OF CLEOPATRA’S DAUGHTER : The Roman guard actually put his unclean hands on our wizard’s holy person. I watched, aghast, trying to ...
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• in Ancient Rome, they had an eye for the important details

  
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• Terry Jones Hidden History of Rome

  
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  Today on Discovery Enterprisewe join Terry Jones on another voyage into antiquity to explore the Hidden History of Rome. Rome was famed for thedecadence of its ruling class but what about the ordinary citizens of thoseancient cultures? In an age when the average life expectancy was little ...
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• Parenting Lessons from the Ancient World

  
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  Parents today are no more deserving of adulation in the form of flowers and gift cards than their ancestors.
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• Rome If You Want To – A Traveler’s Help guide to Rome

  
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  Rome is one of the best areas in the world. The very cradle of human civilization, its many landmarks certainly are a joy for the eyes to behold. The Eternal City remains unrivaled with regards to the sheer aesthetic supremacy of their antique structures and its impressive, widely-venerated history. It doesnt come ...
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• Nahr al-Kalb

  
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  Reliefs of Ramesses II (left) and Esarhaddon (right). In the thirteenth century BCE, the Egyptian pharaoh Ramesses II left three reliefs on the south bank of the Nahr al-Kalb , north of Beyrut , which commemorated the northern campaigns that culminated in the battle of Kadesh (1274). Several centuries later, the ...
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• DVD Review. I, Claudius: The Complete Series 35th Anniversary Edition

  
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  The whip-smart dialogue, as fans of the series well know, forms a giddy counterpoint to an operatic plot featuring just about every permutation of sex and death imaginable. There’s also John Hurt as Caligula, in a gold bikini and makeup Hurt applied himself, because the BBC makeup girls couldn’t make it tasteless ...
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• Roman Beyrut

  
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  Roman baths I have now blogged about the new web pages about the Bekaa Valley and the Lebanon , about Niha , about Faqra , and about Machnaqa . There’s a lot more to be written – think of Baalbek, Byblus, Sidon, and Tyre – but for the moment, I will only add Beyrut. We found it a lovely city, with two ...
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• Ancient Rome in Photos

  
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  A nigh time view of the Trevi Fountain   The Roman Forum at dusk   The Colosseum in Rome   St. Peters Basilica at night in the Vatican   The Pantheon glows in Rome   The Equestrian statue of Marcus Aurelius in Rome   The Vittorio Emanuele II Monument Rome   The ...
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• Private Rome City Day Tour

  
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  Private Shore Excursion. Enjoy the essence of Rome, the Eternal City, with our private driver from port of Civitavecchia, we will encounter with you under ship and you will start of for Rome. The options are various and vast we will with our trained chaffeurs make sure that your expectations are met. Your first stop ...
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• Book beginnings on Friday

  
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  My book beginning today is from another detective novel set in ancient Rome, about 40 years later than Bodies Politic , in 75AD. The Accusers is the 15th book in the very popular Marcus Didius Falco series by Lindsey Davis. I had been an informer for over a decade when I finally learned what the job entailed. ...
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