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If you could make any movie about History, or historical figure, what would it be about? Which actors or actress would be in your movie?
My
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I'm reading HRC's book "Living History" and there she mentiones that were snipers in the mountains overlooking Tuzla's airstrip, but no ditching of bullets.
Her recent statement was a blatant lie, but, hell, she is a politician.
The book it's very well written, a masterpiece of puting her in the right light. She is smart, experienced, determined and ruthless so I guess that she will make a good president but if the reciprocal bashing beetwen her and Obama continues in this pace McCain would have an easier job.
OK, she's a politician, and they lie. But normally they do it with a bit more art than that. This kind of lie reeks of desperation and HRC's situation did not seem that dire as far as the candidacy goes. I'm bothered by it because before hearing of the lie I thought she was doing a pretty good job convincing US voters that she was genuine (as far as a politician can be).
A huge part of the American voting public will not accept a bold faced lie, even from a politician. That is one reason there is so much importance attached to
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Faustus, I read 'GETTING MRS CLINTON'. Wow. That's a pretty big lie to be telling, getting shot at in Bosnia, especially when there are thousands of your troops getting shot at in the Middle East, and many of them not making it home alive.
Shocking, Mrs. Clinton.
With the 'Bosnia Claim' she opened a nest of snakes. In the past the popular media had been her enablers, and would not expose a "discrepancy" like this one. But this is of the present, post Obama and the old rules no longer apply.
It is good for the country and the democrats for her to stay in. This is how nominees get vetted and candidates are made. Governor Rendell of Pennsylvania may have put it in perspective when he said "to understand it better just flip it: If primary results were switched and Obama were behind and Democrat party heads were calling for him to get out, to give it up the race, how would that be perceived?"
There have been instant shifts in the polls since the false Bosnia claim. This is a case of her snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.
Faustus
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VICTORY TO OBAMA!
McCain is a cold war relic, and Hilary lies through her teeth. A very simplistic view based on what our media tell us over in blighty.
GETTING MRS CLINTON
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I am new to the study of Rome; I've read Peter Heather and Bryan Ward Perkins' new books and am now working my way through AHM Jones. All focus primarily on the late Empire. Can anyone suggest a good, concise reading list of the most authoritative studies of the Republic and early Empire? Other key studies on the late Empire?
Thanks
Will Durant's CAESAR AND CHRIST: A History of Roman Civilization and of Christianity from Their Beginnings to A.D. 325 (Story of Civilization, No 3) "A Synthetic History"
Republic and Empire 549 pgs; Christ 123 pgs; Bibliography/Notes/Index 79 pgs; 751 total
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Hillary's Last Hope, Michigan & Florida and why Hillary stays in.
But 22 percent of D voters say, in Novenber, they would not vote for Obama, and 22 percent say they would not vote for Hillary, and a large percentage of those two groups would instead rather vote McCain. They may be the equivalent counter balance of McCain defectors.
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This conversation has almost gone to the point where saying anything about Lincoln the man seems out of place. But because Lincoln was to some of us today what would be called a
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Here's a link to a WikiMapia satellite map of the Flavian Amphitheater.
This is really much, much more than just the Amphitheater. This is great for getting oriented around the old part of the city. Thanks, this is a saver!
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Well this is somewhat embarrassing, but I lost my paper on Futurum simplex after the last lecture while running to the bus. I've made out what I could from my notes, but I can't find out if it's correct, so I thought I'd post it here if anyone have a moment over to help me. I couldn't find anything on how infinitive and imperatives are made unfortunately.
It's the 1st through 4th conjugation and I have used vocare, videre, regere, capite & audire:
Voca-b-o
Voca-bi-s
Voca-bi-t
Voca-bi-mus
Voca-bi-tis
Voca-bu-nt
Vide-b-o
Vide-bi-s
Vide-bi-t
Vide-bi-mus
Vidi-bi-tis
Vide-bu-nt
Reg-a-m
Reg-e-s
Reg-e-t
Reg-e-mus
Reg-e-tis
Reg-e-nt
Capi-a-m
Capi-e-s
Capi-e-t
Capi-e-mus
Capi-e-tis
Capo-e-nt
Audi-a-m
Audi-e-s
Audi-e-t
Audi-e-mus
Audi-e-tis
Audi-e-nt
The infinitive for Capio is Capere (typo?)
in the third conjugation 3d person pl (-io ending) you have Capo-e-nt (typo?) should be Capi-e-nt
Except for these possible typing errors which I've noted everything is else appears to be correct.
Imperatives are: Voco: s-voca! p-vocate!, Video: s-vide! p-videte!, Rego: s-rege! regete!, Capio: s-cape! p-capite!, Audio: s-audi! p-audite!
Faustus
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I'll give McCain credit... he sounded damn presidential today at the Los Angeles World Affairs Council. I still disagree with him on several issues, but he is slowly earning my nominally committed supported. Not that I would ever vote for Obama or Clinton anyway, so to be perfectly fair, the point is a bit moot.
The missing component has been enthusiasm. Enthusiasm translates into financial support, the
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I doubt that bears know what a rifle is. They are protected since many years and the ones that actually see a rifle...
Many bears come to mountain cities, resorts and villages to eat. Even Brasov, a 300.000 men city, has some visits as the mountain is very close to the city's medieval center. Bears are the only animals I fear around here. And cows of course...
A great place it's the Danube Delta, incredibly full of life, 3 hours drive away. I was there just once, in a weekend at it's limits, and I saw foxes, snakes, loads of birds, fish, frogs and ... mosquitos.
Kosmo, of course you are right to a point.
Don't be too sure about the rifle thing, but true animals don't see many of those these days. My experience is that animals are endowed with fantastic memory ability. They learn the things to be wary of. Re; Darwin's trip to the Galapagos: He could reach out catch a bird. See the Lion example above. ( a stick shows an ability to reach out in attack, something to be wary of.)
Some of us are lucky enough to be distasteful to mosquitos, and immune to poisen ivey too.
Primus, Thanks, I'll take a look at that book.
A big concern is getting lost. When I go into large wooded areas I like to take a topographical map. Aerial photos (like google) just show a lot of unidentifiable, seemingly random ground clutter, and if you get down into a valley it
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Climate facts to warm to
CATASTROPHIC predictions of global warming usually conjure with the notion of a tipping point, a point of no return.
Last Monday - on ABC Radio National, of all places - there was a tipping point of a different kind in the debate on climate change. It was a remarkable interview involving the co-host of Counterpoint, Michael Duffy and Jennifer Marohasy, a biologist and senior
fellow of Melbourne-based think tank the Institute of Public Affairs. Anyone in public life who takes a position on the greenhouse gas hypothesis will ignore it at their peril.
Duffy asked Marohasy: "Is the Earth stillwarming?"
She replied: "No, actually, there has been cooling, if you take 1998 as your point of reference. If you take 2002 as your point of reference, then temperatures have plateaued. This is certainly not what you'd expect if carbon dioxide is driving temperature because carbon dioxide levels have been increasing but temperatures have actually been coming down over the last 10 years."
Duffy: "Is this a matter of any controversy?"
Marohasy: "Actually, no. The head of the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) has actually acknowledged it. He talks about the apparent plateau in temperatures so far this century. So he recognises that in this century, over the past eight years, temperatures have plateaued ... This is not what you'd expect, as I said, because if carbon dioxide is driving temperature then you'd expect that, given carbon dioxide levels have been continuing to increase, temperatures should be going up ... So (it's) very unexpected, not something that's being discussed. It should be being discussed, though, because it's very significant."
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Just thought I'd add this for reference if anyone wasn't sure what I was going on about.
Sorry PP we lost that image. (Now it's back . . .and fits into my post as well)
We can not get anyone of authority to acknowledge the existence of cougars here in southern Indiana but they are seen frequently enough to remove much doubt, and leave very large paw prints behind. Without question I saw a very large one close up, crossing a highway 3-miles west of Joliet Illinois, 40 miles west of Chicago in 1958, long before the release of "exotic" pets began.
White tail deer run through large glassed openings entirely within the city here, while their presence is encouraged. Gardens are endangered. All the while the most heated debate during the last couple of years has been over whether city people should be able to keep chickens cooped or free in enclosed yards. They can as long as they don't keep roosters! Coyote snatch cats and small dogs from back yards and are seen in the city. Turkey vultures become aggressive when interrupted from their dining along local roads. The state with the largest number of bears is New Jersey.
Humans, once seen as carrying the long stick are increasingly seen as no more than occasionally debarking from large harmless beasts that mostly move predictably along a smooth path through the forests, or are seen to occupy large enclosures, occasionally spilling
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Read the last two sentences of of paragraph 29: http://www.bartelby.org/124/pres31.html
Lincoln is speaking about this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corwin_Amendment
It appears to me that the President, being inaugurated, following the secession of seven Southern states, at that moment was attempting to knit the country back together again.
Faustus
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Had there been no slavery, I think it virtually certain the South would never had seceded.
Had there been no slavery, I think it likely the North would have not have opposed it, had it still occurred.
The war was over slavery, not States Rights. Sometimes peoples rights are more important then a political entities.
I think the war was over all these things. But from the stand point of Lincoln, (Most of all Lincoln believed that) if any states could secede, then the destruction of the union would become a fact. He clearly stated that he put the preservation of the Union above freeing the slaves. He also made the point that if the slaves were freed, that would be a good outcome as long as the union was preserved:
If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that. What I do about slavery and the colored race, I do because I believe it helps to save the Union; and what I forbear, I forbear because I do no believe it would help to save the Union.
To Horace Greeley, August 22, 1862
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*On the Discovery Channel some years back I saw an interesting and applicable scenario to this discussion. In a country where lions live in a jungle like environment (as opposed to open savannah) it is occasionally necessary to take count of their population. A Park (or Forest) Ranger goes into the jungle with a young goat in tether carrying a long rifle or gun. The goat realizes the danger of being there and makes some goat sounds, like bleating, etc.
A further note: The Gir Forest National Park and Wildlife Sanctuary (AKA Sauan-Gir) south-east of Junagadh district in the Kathiawar Peninsula of Gujarat state India CLICK HERE and go to 3.2 The Lion breeding programme and lion counting ("Live Bait" Lion Counting).
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Last week I was in the mountains. The snow was melting and there were loads of mud. In the patches of snow you could still see animal footprints. We've found a mudpuddle where a boar had bathed. I was wondering if the bears had finished their hibernation. Next time I'll go in summer when the soil it's dry, there are grass and flowers and much warmer weather.
When I walk I always talk with the others, one summer night being alone I sang and ringed my keys 'cause I don't want to meet the wildlife too close, especially the many brown bears.
Thanks Kosmo, for bringing up the safety issue.
A sturdy walking stick can give the impression of a "long-gun" or a rifle to wild animals, without actually having to carry one. There is an interesting example of that I will describe at the bottom.* But about animals; Around here in Indiana there have been mountain lions or cougars reported, and some large exotic "pet" animals are released into the wild, so that you can
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If we were to construct a time machine that allows you to travel back in time, initiates the part of your brain that controls language so you are able to understand speak latin and all that other jazz that you would need....Who would you like to meet the most and what would you have to say to them?
Rome's First Architect, Marcus Vitruvius Pollio: Sir, As a time traveler from the distant future, you may answer my questions without any fear of conseqences from my repeating your words to anyone else while I'm in your time. I will soon be back in my own time, and whatever you tell me now will not be heard again for almost two millenia. I have some questions for you that my contemoraries would be interested in hearing the answers to:
Do you consider the gods to have influence over the lives of all citizens or just certain citizens?
As an engineer and a scientist, with a life guided by rationality and empirical evidence, does religion ever influence you in any way as a basis for your decisions, or do you allow religious considerations to enter into your profession in any way, or do you observe religious ceremonies purely for public approbation?
If you do honor religious observances, in what other ways do you allow your religion influence you?
(Depending on the answer to that question) How much of your own personal life do you allow religion to influence?
What do you think about the Greek/Egyptian mathematical calculating practices like Euclid
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I am trying to save some of my messages so I can re-read them I don't know where to put them. Can anyone help?
Thanks
Salve d.
take a look at your Control Center Controls 2d from the bottom "Archive Messages" Try that with just a few to see what results you get and if you like it.
If you have MS Office you can Cut and Past to files there, finding a way to "isolate" them by UNRV title or similar notation. "UNRV" will put them down towards the end of the file index which may be handy for you. This will take up some memory but not too much. Archiving them will let you store them in folders on your IP's memory. but is too slow for me and they tend to lie there forgotten.
Faustus
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I don't want to seem callous, and perhaps it's because I'm an observer, but a lot of what the church leader said seemed like a mere statement of fact to me. Obama, . .
I can
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That crane accident sounds like a Friday job, alright.
But it must be so much worse when there is loss of life that could have been prevented by simply being thorough in your work.
BTW I also saw a newspaper article which cited the accident as happening just after 2.00pm so it wasn't exactly the end of the day.
Extracts from the BBC news article point out that:
"...the crane had broken during a routine operation to extend its height, by inserting a section and raising its top part... "
"..a piece of steel fell and sheared off one of the ties holding the crane to the building, causing it to detach and topple..."
And:
Whatever the cause it is not something that anyone wishes to see happen so those involved have my sympathy.
The accident occurred Saturday afternoon, which is
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Points taken, Flavia. But why, then, are British actors always hired when gravitas is required?
I would agree that if we were to stick rigidly to authenticity, then we should have Italians - God forbid NOT Americans, who weren't even in the world at the time! This is the same with renditions of Shakespeare's plays - where the actors should be English or nothing! I could put up with Italians. Americans are so anachronistic in epics of the Classical world, that I cannot take them seriously. Perhaps the reason that the Brits are preferred is due to the Bard who penned one or two classical histories, hence setting a standard. Therefore, the Brits 'doing Classical' have passed into the canon. Perhaps it's sad, but there it is. Historically speaking, I cannot accept an accent from a nation with only a few hundred years of history. Yeah - I'm old fashioned. And rather like Augustus Caesar, who penned a similar thought in another thread, this is not said as a detriment to our trans-Atlantic cousins as a nation - merely as a theatrical yardstick.
This could run and run, so we should perhaps leave it here.
Hmm. . .I though it was the British accent which did the trick, because it passes for being
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How about a film about the life of Aurelian? His reign would be perfect for a film. I mean he in just five years he crushed two rival usurper kindoms and united the empire. His only repayment was his murder...
Here's what a pitch for the film could sound like:
-(spoken in a very deep voise) At a time when Rome was at its darkest moment, her empire crumbling at its sides, her emperors being desposed of at ever moment, it seemed like no-one would help the once mighty empire...enter Aurelian, the 'restor of the world'.
wouldn't it be great to see the war against Zenoba on the silver screen.
I hasten to agree with you on that one, and I was reading through the replies to see if Aurelian was put up as a possibility. I
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The highest accident rate at construction sites occurs on Fridays, when the most
America Votes 2008
in Hora Postilla Thermae
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Under our system these hated politicians are our governing class. If we demanded the popular media do its job, and not simply be enablers in deceipt, we could do much better in vetting our candidates. However we are getting a much better job this year because it is competitive on the D side. Also there is more alternative media (even the internet) to bring things to the fore that would otherwise never reach the public consciousness.
John McCain was a prisoner of war in Vietnam for 5