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Nero's rotating banquet hall unveiled in Rome
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| 9/29/09
| Marta Falconi - ap
Posted on 09/29/2009 12:55:36 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
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To: 50sDad
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posted on
09/29/2009 1:29:00 PM PDT
by
P.O.E.
To: centurion316
To: Dallas59
His dying words:
“qvalisartifexpereo”, according to Suetonius.
My comment was a play on a loose translation.
23
posted on
09/29/2009 1:30:54 PM PDT
by
swain_forkbeard
(Rationality may not be sufficient, but it is necessary.)
To: nufsed
My memory is that 69 was the year of the four emperors who were Galba, Otho, and Vitellius. Then the Flavians?
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posted on
09/29/2009 1:32:57 PM PDT
by
swain_forkbeard
(Rationality may not be sufficient, but it is necessary.)
To: US Navy Vet
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a circular space that rotated day and night to imitate the Earth's movement and impress his guests"
If the Romans were not aware that the Earth was round, how could they know that a rotating banquet hall could imitate the Earth's movement. Sure, they saw the Sun rise in the East and set in the West, and the stars fly around overhead at night, but didn't they think that the Sun traveled across the sky, and the stars move fixed on spheres around a stationary Earth?
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posted on
09/29/2009 1:36:24 PM PDT
by
PUGACHEV
To: swain_forkbeard
Yes the year of the 4 Ceasars. Emperor is usually called Ceasar in the period.
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posted on
09/29/2009 1:38:05 PM PDT
by
nufsed
To: nufsed
Yes, of course. And the fourth Caesar that year was Vespasian. Something-or-other Flavius Vespasianus. Started building the Flavian amphitheater.
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posted on
09/29/2009 1:43:20 PM PDT
by
swain_forkbeard
(Rationality may not be sufficient, but it is necessary.)
To: nufsed
The year of the 4 emperors was in 69 AD.
The 4 emperors were Galba (who’s reign began in 68 AD), Otho , Vitellius and Vespasian.
To: xjcsa
The old bit of claiming that Nero
was the Anti-Christ of the END TIMES
is one of the most Biblically ignorant perspectives I’ve ever read in my 62 years.
There are a host of Scriptures which prevent his filling the bill.
Only Clueless RUBBER BIBLE’d perspectives have the brazen arrogant affrontery to pretend otherwise.
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posted on
09/29/2009 1:48:25 PM PDT
by
Quix
(POL Ldrs quotes fm1900 2 presnt: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2130557/posts?page=81#81)
To: Dallas59
Nero's schnozz looks like Clinton's.
To: PUGACHEV
I believe that both the Greeks and the Romans believed that the Earth was a sphere. That understanding was forgotten by later generations.
To: PUGACHEV
The ancients knew the world was round. In fact, Greek named Eratosthenes was able to calculate its circumference with a great deal of accuracy around 240 BC. Also, ancient statues of Atlas show him holding a spherical earth.
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posted on
09/29/2009 2:08:08 PM PDT
by
Bubba Ho-Tep
("More weight!"--Giles Corey)
To: US Navy Vet
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posted on
09/29/2009 2:19:29 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/__Since Jan 3, 2004__Profile updated Monday, January 12, 2009)
To: NormsRevenge; StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; 1ofmanyfree; 21twelve; 24Karet; ...
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posted on
09/29/2009 2:20:20 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/__Since Jan 3, 2004__Profile updated Monday, January 12, 2009)
To: US Navy Vet
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posted on
09/29/2009 2:26:47 PM PDT
by
Perdogg
(Sarah Palin-Jim DeMint 2012 - Liz Cheney for Sec of State - Duncan Hunter SecDef)
To: Bubba Ho-Tep
Did he just come out of a cold lake?
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posted on
09/29/2009 2:27:22 PM PDT
by
Pharmboy
(The Stone Age did not end because they ran out of stones...)
To: US Navy Vet
OK does Omama = Nero or Caliglia? ****************************************
Neither , I'm thinking more like Biggus Dickus...
To: eCSMaster
Pardon me, Emp old buddy.
Is that your nose or are you smoking a stogie?
38
posted on
09/29/2009 3:07:24 PM PDT
by
Ole Okie
(American)
To: swain_forkbeard
39
posted on
09/29/2009 3:10:44 PM PDT
by
Dallas59
To: ClearCase_guy; NormsRevenge
Does it include a vomitorium?Those were in the Coliseum and amphitheathers. They had nothing to do with throwing up after eating - that's simply a popular misconception. The vomitoria were the exit corridors through which the crowds left.
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