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Dinner At Piso's: Ancient Romans ate meals most Americans would recognize
Inside Science ^
| Tuesday, February 3, 2015
| Joel N. Shurkin, Contributor
Posted on 02/07/2015 9:01:27 AM PST by SunkenCiv
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To: a fool in paradise
Helen Thomas Memorialized for the Ages! oh noooo
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02/10/2015 6:26:41 AM PST
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MeshugeMikey
("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vomitorium
> The term vomitorium does not appear until the 4th century AD, about 400 years after Caesar and Cicero.[5]
* McKeown, J.C. (2010). A Cabinet of Roman Curiosities: Strange Tales and Surprising Facts from the World’s Greatest Empire. Oxford University Press. pp. 153-154. ISBN 978-0-19-539375-0.
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02/10/2015 7:35:44 AM PST
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SunkenCiv
(Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary men)
To: Albion Wilde
Modern Italian women (with one her got her looks from her Swedish mother). I don’t think women got really attractive until the latter half of the 20th century. Too matronly before that.
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12/07/2021 2:34:22 PM PST
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SunkenCiv
(Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
To: fieldmarshaldj
They conquered other civilizations for a reason....
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12/07/2021 2:47:10 PM PST
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Textide
(Lord, grant that I may always be right, for thou knowest I am hard to turn. ~ Scotch-Irish prayer)
To: Textide
I clicked on your response and got a face-ful of dust from this old thread. :-P
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12/07/2021 6:28:36 PM PST
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fieldmarshaldj
(Plugs the Pedo - The Shart Heard 'Round The World)
To: DemforBush
It was pretty disappointed to find out that vomitoriums were just hallways and not facilities for purging. All these colorful images of Roman barf-o-ramas dashed.
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