Posted on 03/29/2010 12:52:22 PM PDT by decimon
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Yeah but he whistle blowed on those nasty cig companies.
Checking out the posts on Antikythera mechanism very interesting...
Those About To DieThe greatest naumachia of all time was the naval engagement staged by Claudius. As Augustus' lake was too small, the mad emperor decided to use the Fucine Lake (now called the Lago di Fucino) some sixty miles to the east of Rome. This lake had no natural outlet and in the spring it often flooded many miles of surrounding county. To overcome this trouble, a tunnel three and a half miles long had been cut through solid rock from the lake to the Litis River to carry off the surplus water. This job had taken thirty thousand men eleven years to finish. For the dedication of the opening of this tunnel, Claudius decided to stage a fight between two navies on the lake. The galleys previously used in such engagements had been small craft with only one bank of oars. For this fight, there were to be twenty-four triremes (three banks of oars), all regulation ocean-going warships -- and twenty-six bi-remes (double bank). This armada was divided into two fleets of twenty-five ships each and manned by nineteen hundred criminals under the command of two famous gladiators. One fleet was to represent the Rhodians and the other the Sicilians and both groups wore the appropriate costumes... A big tent had even been put up to care for the wounded after the battle -- after all, prisoners were scarce and the survivors could always be used again in other spectacles. As matters turned out, the tent served another purpose. Fifteen women in the crowd gave birth during the fight and had to be cared for in the tent. It is an interesting example of the mob's passion for these fights that women in advanced pregnancy traveled sixty miles from Rome so as not to miss the naumachia.
Chapter III
by Daniel P. Mannix
You have to be joking.
That’s fascinating. Are those really the guy’s teeth or were they added?
What a horrible end. Pompeii is one place I’d love to visit.
Those are really his teeth. If you look at the top of the head, you’ll see the tip of the skull. The whole thing was encased in plaster, with the outline of the man.
Like I said, chilling!
That man was... ah.... gifted.
I understand how they filled in the “people spaces” with plaster; but I had no idea that so much of the victims’ parts were preserved. Chilling...yes. It would have seemed like the end of the world.
It contains a selction of the best wines produced in ancient Gabii. They buried it in lead so the Romans couldn;t get it.
Actually I was kind of feeling sorry for him.
The Man with the X Ray Eyes!
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