History Buffs Can Visit Ancient Rome with Google "Virtual Time Machine" - Videos

Freedom's Lighthouse ^ | November 16, 2008 | BrianinMO

[Federalist Patriot]

History buffs can now visit Ancient Rome using Google's "Virtual time machine." Here are two video reports on the new technology available to users of Google Earth. . . . (Watch Video)

[cripplecreek]

I don’t suppose anyone knows how to correct the IE8/Google earth proxy issue. I lost my google earth when I upgraded and haven’t been able to use it since.

[omega4179]

Just say no to Google. They are corporatizing the Internet and report all flu searches to the US government for analysis.

[syriacus]

Neat!

[John Valentine]

Just flu searches?

How about ebola searches or anthrax searches?

How about Gina Lollobrigida searches?

[John Valentine]

Those pesky IE upgrades!

There is, I might point out, Firefox as an alternative.

[omega4179]

Sure, they don’t have to answer to the masses.

[Las Vegas Ron]

I had nothing but trouble with IE 8 when I tried the upgrade beta.

To uninstall you have to do it with a command prompt.

If you want to uninstall go to MS's site and search IE 8 uninstall and you'll find the command line. It's rather long so copy paste.

For me, IE 8 sucked.

[Young Werther]

Better to READ!

When your read Goethe's Roman Elegies you will experience his Erotic Excursion to Roman. This would introduce him to the Classical Period and would effect his writings. In one of his diary snippets he tells of a moment in a hotel overlooking the ruins of the Roman Forum. It was early moring and the sun had just came up. The view from his window was spectacular. He began to compose a poem in iambic pentameter. And he beat out the rhythm on the back of his courtesan who was sleeping at his side.

Badda Bing Badda Bang!

Pardon moi the pun!

[Oztrich Boy]

What have the Romans ever done for us?

[dr_lew]

Better to READ!

I was gonna say that. I recommend Juvenal's Satires -

When the rich man has a call of social duty, the mob makes way for him as he is borne swiftly over their heads in a huge Liburnian car. He writes or reads or sleeps inside as he goes along, for the closed window of the car induces slumber. Yet he will arrive before us; hurry as we may, we are blocked by a surging crowd in front, and by a dense mass of people pressing in on us from behind: one man digs an elbow into me, another a hard sedan pole; one bangs a beam, another a wine-cask, against my head. My legs are beplastered with mud; soon huge feet trample on me from every side, and a soldier plants his hobnails firmly on my toe. - Satire III

[Young Werther]

SPQR is an initialism from a Latin phrase, Senatus Populusque Romanus ("The Senate and the People of Rome" or "The Senate and Roman People"), referring to the government of the ancient Roman Republic, and used as an official signature of the government. It appears on coins, at the end of documents made public by inscription in stone or metal, in dedications of monuments and public works, and was emblazoned on the standards of the Roman legions. The phrase appears many hundreds of times in Roman political, legal and historical literature, including the speeches of Marcus Tullius Cicero and the history of Titus Livius. Since the meaning and the words never vary, except for the spelling and inflection of populus in literature, Latin dictionaries classify it as a formula.

SPQR is the motto of the city of Rome and appears in the city's coat of arms, as well as on many of the city's civic buildings and manhole covers.

A fellow Latin student was from Trieste and said SPQR really meant Sono Porke Questi Romani which translates as " Those Romans Are Pigs!" Western Civilization finds it's roots in the Athens and Rome.

What have the Romans ever done for us?

At least 30 semester hours of History and Political Science might just answer your question.