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I would also put the mystery of Troy on that list, Did the actual battle happen!!!!!!! Would you believe the sam man that wrote odysseus and cyclops etc. I know the place existed but were the trojans gullible enough to take a wooden horse inside the gates?
I am not really good at it but I'll try. Please correct me if I'm wrong. I believe the Trojan War did take place. The Lion Gate at Mycenae is said to be built to celebrate Spartan victory over Troy, is it not? Anyway, Homer's wooden horse was probably just a tale, also the story of the beautiful Helen, I presume. *laughs* Looking for more professional ideas.
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Haha. Told you, it's the Chinese guitar.
The principle is more or less the same as guitar.
If you are interested, there is an article on wiki.
It's ok if you're not 'cause it is going ot
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10. Rongorongo
Never heard of it.
5. Who Was Robin Hood?
What's so mysterious about it?
4. The Lost Roman legion
Ah ha! I remember this. Has it been overlooked? I don't think so...
Interesting list. Thanks for sharing, Viggen.
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*deciding whether to put up my hand or not*
I play Chinese guitar, called pipa
As for 'real' guitar I know only a few chords...
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Happy birthday!!
Here comes a Cantonese one...(more or less)
Sang Yet Fai Lok!!!!
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Here you go
France? Germany?
Anyway I am not going to guess this time
*lacking of new pictures!*
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Me neither!!
Would it be different for cats from different areas?
I am thinking of the movement of the lips when pronouncing [m]. Is it similar to that of eating (or chewing or griding - I am not sure) food (say infants eating porridge)?
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This impressive! Thank you MPC!! And I couldn't help giggling when seeing M. Porcius Cato on the list.
Julius Caesar is in my mind when I first saw GPM's question. But it turns out that we have to analyse in so many aspects. Anyway, what about Scipio Africanus?
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There should be more ambushes from the Punic Wars. I just can't recall back my memory.
Is it true that the Romans had been using war machines and arrow fire to lead them into an ambush?
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An [m] sound is a nasal...a bilabial nasal stop. But there tends to be a corollary for the first words to include bilabial sounds, since the tongue doesn't have to articulate. That is not an absolute given; there are always people and languages that will buck that trend.
Can you give some examples? I thought that consonants with bilabial sounds include only b, p, m and f.
It is true that different languages have different ways of pronouncing words.
Anyway, can you recall what is the very first word you said when you were a baby?
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Seems familiar....
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Welcome Traianus. Nice try.
But Asclepiades has got it right.
It's Corinth.
I've told you this is an easy one
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No, it's not Paestum.
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That is a beautiful theatre. I like it.
And here comes another one.
Again an easy one.
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Well, as far as the Indo-European languages, there is a common ancestor: *māt
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Now it's better.
Graeco-Roman theatre at Kourion?
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Salve, M! The followin quote comes from the "mother" article of en.wikipedia.org:
"In many other languages, similar pronunciations apply; maman in French, or mamma in Italian, or m
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Ok then I'll just keep on guessing...
Fiesole?
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The Chinese word for 'mother' is 媽媽 (pronounced as MAMA). I wonder are there any relations between this 媽媽 and the Latin mater, which later derives as mother in English, madre in Italian, etc. Is there any reasons for the common MA-starting words, having the meaning of mother? What makes China and Rome both calling mother as MA? Or maybe Chinese 媽媽 is translated from Latin or English in the past centuries?
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Prego. (I dunno the Latin word for this so...)
But this pic is really confusing.
Is it still used today?
Anyway, Let me make some guesses...errr...
Thamugas?
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So I see a theatre here.
Nice picture.
Give me some time to figure this out.
(Edit) I don't understand why all Roman theatres look the same!!!
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Salve, K. Yes, it is. That was fast. Congratulations. Your turn.
Yuuuuuup! Very fast.
BTW you don't know how much I love arches
*waiting for next picture*
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Oh this is going to hurt!
And we are going to break this together again, Klingan.
Romance of Three Kingdoms
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What a shame I haven't read ROTR, as a Chinese myself. I have been trying to read the original classical Chinese version but have it put down after finishing the first chapter...
Romance of Three Kingdoms, in Cantonese "Sam Kwok Yin Yee", is rather fictional. For a more historical reference to the three kingdoms, there is another Chinese literary called "Sam Kwok Zhi" (the ambition of the three kingdoms). It is shorter than ROTK, more historical, but less fun reading it.