An empty Fori Imperiali street in front of ancient Colosseum is seen in Rome during the Euro 2012 final soccer match between Italy and Spain July 1, 2012. REUTERS/Stefano Rellandini
one of these days tho a real bellringer will give it a good nudge.. gonna want to have a good camera in hand for that.
An empty Fori Imperiali street in front of ancient Colosseum is seen in Rome during the Euro 2012 final soccer match between Italy and Spain July 1, 2012. REUTERS/Stefano Rellandini
/johnny
Just in - The Colosseum lies on Bush’s fault.
Nothing lasts forever.
George W. Bush?
The Catholic Church?
Maybe Israel. (Maybe Vespasian's Jewish prisoners of war deliberately sabotaged the construction of the Colosseum A.K.A. the Flavian amphitheater.)
Several years ago I saw on the news that a French town had severe flooding. The water destroyed all 11 bridges in the town except one.
That one was built by the Romans. They had an unbelievably sound system of construction.
Obama to Romans: they didn’t build that!
Ooh, look! A stray building! It needs love...
Time to mudjack it.
Hide the incline...
Start looking for world-wide, but especially here in the US, “Save the Colosseum” fund raisers. Italy, as a country, is running on empty in the pocketbook. Formerly known as the Amphitheatrum Flavium in antiquity, I am enough of a historian to be willing to donate a few denarius [denarii?] to such a cause.
Built by the same contractors who built the wood arena at Fidenae?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fidenae
http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showthread.php?t=173216
Quamdiu stat Colisæus, stat et Roma; quando cadet colisæus, cadet et Roma; quando cadet Roma, cadet et mundus.
A friend told me he was once in Verona and wanted to find how to get to the local amphitheater (one of the best-preserved ancient amphitheaters). So he asked a local "where is the Colosseum?" The guy looked at him as if he were crazy and replied, "in Rome."
My house is settling, too. They just don’t build things like they used to.... oh, never mind.
Is it leaning to the left?
Bury some soaker hoses around the outside. Learned that this weekend along with “No, you don’t pound the sharp end of the nail.”