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• Famous Roman Tomb May Have Actually Been A Temple

  
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  Filed under: History , Learning , Europe , Spain At the Roman necropolis in Carmona, Spain , visitors are led to the popular "Elephants Tomb," a large underground chamber that gets its name from a crude sculpture of an elephant found there. Now archaeologists are saying it may not be a tomb at all, but ...
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• Gralien Report Daily News for May 12, 2013

  
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  Happy Mother’s Day! All the best to all the moms out there… and here are today’s Headlines… A Plague helped hasten the fall of the Roman Empire… just ask this graveyard And looking at another “City of the Dead,” Thunderbolts discusses […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry... This post, Gralien ...
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• Domino’s Greek Tragedy

  
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  One cannot shame or embarrass powerful real-estate developers. Even negative publicity is a minor irritant because they shroud themselves in Teflon tailored by public relations firms.
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• The 12 Disciples (Simon)

  
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  Simon, often known as Simon the Zealot or Simon the Canaanite, is only mentioned in the Bible when the names of the first 12 disciples/apostles are listed together. Matthew 10:2-4, “These are the names of the twelve apostles: first, Simon (who is called Peter) and his brother Andrew; James son of Zebedee, and his ...
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• Interesting Facts About Africa

  
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  Interesting facts about Africa. Photo by Vaai 27 Interesting facts about Africa 1. Africa is the second largest continent and its area is about 22% of the World territory. 2. There are 54 independent states, Including the disputed territory of Western Sahara and the surrounding island nations in Africa. 3. ...
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• Plague Helped Bring Down Roman Empire, Graveyard Suggests

  
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  New evidence suggests the Black Death bacterium caused the Justinianic Plague of the sixth to eighth centuries. The pandemic, named after the Byzantine emperor Justinian I (shown here), killed more than 100 million people. CREDIT: Public Domain Charles Choi Live Science Plague may have helped finish ...
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• History of Egypt

  
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  Ancient Egypt: 3150 BC - 305 BC. Ptolemaic Egypt: 305 BC - 30 BC. The Ptolemaic Kingdom was founded in 305 BC by  Ptolemy I Soter, a Macedonian general, after the death of Alexander the Great. It survived for a long time, until the Roman Civil War , where Queen Cleopatra supported Mark Antony instead ...
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• Justinian Plague Confirmed to be the Bubonic Plague (ie Black Death)

  
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  Ancient DNA analyses of skeletal remains of plague victims from the 6th century AD provide information about the phylogeny and the place of origin of this pandemic From the several pandemics generally called pestilences three are historically recognized as due to plague, but only for the third pandemic of the 19th to ...
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• OTP Rebounds: Chelsea mugs, Bolton vs West Ham FA Cup final images and Liverpool legend’s managerial bow

  
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  Get your ‘Chelsea – Mugs of the Roman Empire’ commemorative mug [101GG] Ever wanted to play ‘Where’s Wally?’ with a slightly disturbing Phil Thompson twist? Here’s your chance [Lurking Thommo] Great photos of the first FA Cup final, which took place between Bolton and West Ham 90 years ago [Dirty Tackle] ...
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• Christians have persecution complex, Candida Moss says

  
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  A historian claims that many stories about the persecution of early Christians were invented or exaggerated to further the religion. Candida Moss, a professor of New Testament and Early Christianity at the University of Notre Dame maintains Christianity is so laden with such tales that it has given rise to a myth of ...
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• About the Romans in Northern France

  
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  I’ve gotten to know Thomas Dowson via Facebook and love his somewhat unique slant on travel. Archaeology fascinates me, and I’m very pleased to be able to share his guest post about the Romans in France. The coastline of northern France will forever be closely associated to the two World Wars. These beaches saw ...
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• Why America Fell So Far … So Fast

  
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  Thomas Edison said, “Dissent is the highest form of patriotism.”   And because I love my country, I frequently criticize America’s shortcomings in the hopes of making her better. But the truth is that the United States is not unusual … it is just like all other empires which have hit their peak and then ...
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• Why America Fell So Far … So Fast

  
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  Thomas Edison said, “Dissent is the highest form of patriotism.”   And because I love my country, I frequently criticize America’s shortcomings in the hopes of making her better. But the truth is that the United States is not unusual … it is just like all other empires which have hit their peak and then ...
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• Corrective Strategies and Themes for Understanding the Book of Revelation (Tired of the chaos? Me too!)

  
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  After my most popular status update ever affirmed it a few months back, I’ve decided to do some intentional thinking about the book of Revelation. These posts will be scattered for a time, but will eventually make up a series of posts. This biblical bookend is perhaps the most abused text in all of christendom. ...
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• The Only True Olive Oil

  
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  There are at least a hundred reasons why you should be consuming olive oil. We may look back to the history of the goddess Athena to humanity. Among the uses of olive oil are the fact that with two tablespoons a day, you will have a more elastic arteries that enable you to resist stroke and heart attack, it can also ...
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• Michael Bird on a Roman Official Reading Romans

  
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  “Should a Roman official have read Romans, the letter would have appeared to be the ravings of a fanatical Eastern superstition, politically malicious at best and seditious at worst.”  ( Jesus Is Lord, Caesar Is Not: Evaluating Empire In NT Studies , p. 162) But if this Roman official’s eyes were to be ...
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• Joffrey Baratheon Totally Looks Like Caligula

  
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  Look-alike by:Unknown Tagged: joffrey baratheon , totally looks like , caligula , roman empire , roman empire , roman empire Share on Facebook
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• Anti-Imperial Rhetoric in the New Testament?

  
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  Judith A. Diehl, an instructor of New Testament and hermeneutics at Denver Seminary, asks: “ Did the historical situation of the early Christians create the necessity of written literary features such as ‘hidden language’ and ‘codified messages’ for the political protection of the readers, as well as the ...
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• The End of the Beginning

  
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  The Baptism of  Rome For many critics, Constantine gave a Judas kiss of death to the Church.  By recognising the Lord Jesus Christ and His Church, whatever his motives, Constantine seduced the Church to a life of worldliness.  Pleasing and serving the emperor and his empire became ultimately more important than ...
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• Selenium, silk, spices and silver: drivers of human history

  
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  Adam Smith called the crossing of the Atlantic by Columbus  and rounding of the Cape of Good Hope by Vasco da Gama the greatest events in human history. They led to, for the first time, a truly global trading economy, where the Eurasian trade economy was extended to, and profoundly changed by contact with, the ...
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