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• Ancient Roman Death Metal Band ADE Posts Lyric Video For ‘Sanguine Pluit In Arena’ (featuring George Kollias)

  
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  Ancient Roman death metal band ADE has posted a new lyric video for their brutal track ‘Sanguine Pluit In Arena’, which is   off their latest offering   ‘Spartacus’ and features extreme metal drummer  George Kollias   (Nile, Nightfall).   Lyric Video: True masters of music, ADE , formed ...
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• Simon Says: Daily Food Quote, May 10, 2013

  
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  by Simón de Swaan A good cook is the peculiar gift of the gods. He must be a perfect creature from the brain to the palate, from the palate to the finger’s end. –Walter Savage Landor                     Walter Savage Landor was an English writer and poet who lived from ...
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• Professor Donald Kagan on A Liberal Education

  
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  Yales great historian gives his farewell lecture .  Do listen.
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• Forgotten Deities: Flaccidus, The Roman God of Engineers

  
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  Ancient woodcut of a rooster, the favored form of sacrifice to the Roman god, Flaccidus. Flaccidus was a god revered during the time of the Roman Republic. Flaccidus was a kind of angry god, but not in the Mars I’m-going-to-stab-you-with-a-spear … Continue reading →
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• Ancient Roman cemetery found under parking lot

  
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  Hidden beneath a parking lot in Leicester, England, archaeologists have discovered a 1,700-year-old Roman cemetery that seemed to show no religious bias. The new discovery, found at the junction of Newarke and Oxford Streets, includes numerous burials and skeletal remains from 13 individuals, both male and female of ...
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• EPISODE 255 – you can’t build up to the Shewee

  
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  Hello listeners, We really hope you didn’t first hear the sad news about JLS on Answer Me This! Episode 255 . If you did, please accept our condolences at this difficult time. Download: Answer_Me_This_Episode_255.mp3 Through our veil ...
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• Where did “dog days of summer” come from?

  
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  The dog days of summer are generally considered to be July into August. The expression actually dates back to the ancient Romans. Having conquered virtually every living organism in the known world, the bored Romans began looking to the skies to see if there was anything that might be close enough for them to pillage. ...
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• My Love Affair with the Colosseum

  
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  The Colosseum remains one of the largest and most recognizable buildings in Italy’s capital My love affair with the Colosseum began in 2006, coincidentally the same year that I left my birth country and visited Italy (and thus, Rome ) for the first time. I was in awe with the city: its antiquity was strikingly ...
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• Events April 30-May 2: Origins of the Renaissance, Native Crafts and History Reanimated

  
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  Kota Ezawa recreates famous moments in history and pop culture with basic animation software. He is visiting the Hirshhorn on Thursday to talk about his art. Photo by Independent Curators International, courtesy of Flickr Creative Commons Tuesday, April 30: Did an Emperor Kick-Start the Renaissance? Most of the ...
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• The Thing About Sex

  
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  One of the significant difficulties many husbands and wives encounter is the place of sexual desire and pleasure in marriage. I want to speak to this today by answering a representative question, one of many I’ve received. “You speak of sex like it is a pure and holy thing. Yet when my husband wants to have sex ...
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• Mangia and Vino con Vista in Ravenna: A UNESCO Site in Emilia-Romagna

  
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  Image via Wikipedia English: Cross. Detail from the 6th century Byzantine mosaic in the apse of the basilica of Sant’Apollinare in Classe (Ravenna, Italy) Italiano: Croce gemmata. Particolare del mosaico bizantino nel catino absidale di Sant’Apollinare in Classe a Ravenna (secolo VI). (Photo credit: ...
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• Graeco-Roman industry in Suez Canal

  
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  An Egyptian excavation mission from the Ministry of State for Antiquities (MSA) uncovered on Thursday a complete industrial area that can be dated to the Graeco-Roman era. The discovery was found during routine excavation work at the archaeological site of Tell Abu-Seifi, located east of the Suez Canal and south of ...
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• The Eburones

  
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  Model of the Eburonian village at Hambach-Niederzier (Rheinisches Landesmuseum, Bonn) In 57 BCE, Julius Caesar conquered the valley of the Upper- and Middle- Meuse, which, he said, was inhabited by Belgian tribes. Among the members of the Belgic confederation were the Eburones. In his campaign notes, the Roman ...
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• IceTV – What’s On This Week?

  
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  This week on TV features Eat, Fast And Live Longer and I Think I’m An Animal, as well as a trio of exciting new series – Borgen, Treasures Of Ancient Rome and A Place To Call Home. Don’t miss any of these great shows (and more) with IceTV. ON TV THIS WEEK Eat, Fast And Live ...
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• Are We Rome? FreedomFest 2013

  
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  Wayne Root is Chosen as the Opening Speaker at FreedomFest Follow us, donate and help us stay on-line. Filed under: America , Barack Obama , Congress , George Bush , government corruption , government deception , Obama , Obama Administration , Obamunism , President Obama , US Constitution , ...
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• Piazza del Popolo’s Top 5 Vino con Vista Opportunities in Rome

  
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  Roma – Piazza del Popolo (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Piazza del Popolo (Photo credit: Wikipedia) 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 ...
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• Top Treasures of the Vatican Museums and the Sistine Chapel in Italy

  
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  Image via Wikipedia Carlo Brogi (1850-1925) – “Rome – Vatican – Museo Pio-Clementino – Augustus in his older age”. Catalogue # 8262. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) English: Fresco of Mercury – Vatican Museum – Rome, Italy. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Vatican Museums (Photo credit: Wikipedia) ...
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• St. Peter’s Basilica in Italy’s Vatican City

  
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  St. Peter’s Basilica at Early Morning (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Image via Wikipedia In 1506, Bramante was commissioned by Pope Julius II to renovate St. Peter’s Basilica, originally built by Constantine from 324-329. Emperor Constantine  built a glorious crown for St. Peter’s tomb over the ...
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• I Love Caravaggio

  
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  Caravaggio (Photo credit: Carmen Alonso Suarez) Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio – The Sacrifice of Isaac (detail) – WGA04139 (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Caravaggio, Resurrection (Photo credit: Martin Beek) I love art and Caravaggio is one of my favorite artists. Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio ...
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• It’s good to talk, but does it have to be now?!

  
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  Warning: this post may contain traces of poo.  The twins have quite a Roman attitude towards the toilet. Ellie, in particular, seems to see doing one’s business as a social event. In the demarcation of duties between me & the Mummy the role of ‘Toilet Attendant’ somehow seems to have gone on my CV.  I [...]
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