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I wonder what the gender ratio is on UNRV? Anyway, congrats

Is better to play the part of the host for the bonfire then to play the part of the catholic.

I'm sure you did great even if your cat is not a good conversationalist. They rarely are.

Celtic influence never extended as far south as Baetica. The region was inhabited by Iberian Turdetani, descendants of the Tartessians. They were fairly urbanized and sophisticated and had strong connections with Carthaginians and even Greeks before Roman conquest. It is easy to see why these developed people where quick to become romanized. Probably the iberic culture was still present by the time of Trajan but I doubt that it was very relevant for the son of a consul from the gens Ulpia who was related with many members of the roman aristocracy in Baetica including the families to whom later emperors Hadrian and Marcus Aurelius belonged. Probably there was some gene mixing even at the top provincial level (with Turdetani not Celts) but that is much less important then roman cultural supremacy.

Very interesting. I realize falconry has not appeared yet, but I wonder if they tamed ravens. Your blog is amazing.

You got a chihuahua? a snoring girlfriend?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dttRhXoJ9b8 I wonder if this is true. Anyway, I love this show.

The idea is not being in control because that is impossible but to do your best. And it looks like you did if those people appreciate what you do. Good luck! One of my favorite songs with a bittersweet history behind it.

This is a major discovery.

So that's why the birds are so angry?

The only fish I catch are those bent on suiciding with my hooks because usually my attention goes somewhere else so I rarely see them bite. Oh, what a pretty dragonfly! and a pink cloud! look, a unicorn! But I like to eat fish.

The weird part is that I don't remember much from the first time when I did the dance with no pants with a girl. I know with whom, where, when and why but no other details. Maybe is a defensive mechanism protecting me from some terrible memory

Leave it here.

If you use the BI engine you could have an Eastern Celtic horde in the Balkans/Anatolia because this is when celts raided Macedonia and killed it's king and when they established Galatia and the Tylis kingdom

It must be a moded map if it reaches/includes India. RTW has a map of Italy for a short tutorial campaign that, I think, starts around 280 BC

This is so bad is almost good.

Can't touch that!

Happy Birthday!!!

Romans were a rational and sensible people, so, after the first stinging defeat of the legions, Augustus would have done the smart thing and surrendered. After successfully establishing a base in Rome the MEU would set up a corrupt and incompetent government who would force legislation and a socio-political system incompatible with the mind-set, culture and beliefs of the inhabitants of the Empire sparkling a series of rebellions in the provinces motivated by perceived threats to religion/identity. The MEU has to be divided and sent piecemeal to fight elusive guerrillas. The discipline brakes down and half of the marines decide to live an epicurean life while the other half go to Judea to look for Jesus. They are eventually absorbed during the period of conflicts sparked by the Marines invasion, border wars, pretenders and rebellions. In the end peace is reestablished by a new emperor, a former roman general from the Rhine limes who showed talent and ruthlessness in his use of rifle legions and mortar auxila.

One of my brothers failed his university admission tests like this. Because they were given just once a year and the competition was high there was a lot of pressure and he performed far below then during mock exams with his tutor. This was happening in communism so I guess it had nothing to do with "political correctness in modern western classrooms". Some people just can't take the pressure. I myself choked a few times when I had to speak in front of crowds so I can sympathize.

Here we have a different sort of Bambi that is far less tasty http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvueIRGywLE&feature=related Consuming this may lead to silicon poisoning

Franks didn't lost their identity. They were a german people located on both sides of the Rhine. They eventually controlled politically a much larger region but they didn't settled far from the Rhine. What we call France is just the western third of their state. The other two thirds became the Holy German Empire that existed for another 1000 years after France broke out of the frankish state. The core of the frankish state during Merovingians and Carolingians was always in the Rhine lands while western regions like Aquitania and Bretagne were independent and/or hostile. A similar hostile situation was in Southern France from the time the Goths of Septimania were caught between arabs and franks until the crusades against the cathars in the High Middle Ages. The western third was not the most important part of the frankish state despite France-centric historians. Franks and medieval France are different things that don't overlap and despite modern French drive East the core Frankish region, that included Lotharingia, still has many german speakers that are maybe descendants of the franks.

I thought Lucretia is dead, but it seems she is just mad. More mad then before I mean. "Crazy sex isn't always good sex" - Lucy Lawless made me laugh. Very glad the they kept her.

No roadkill pie then? What a waste!

This sounds a lot like the client/patron system and the morning visits that romans made to their social superiors, not like a form of greeting.