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  1. I have been talking to "Centurion-Macro" in PM lately and I brought this up to him reguarding the 1 PM per so many hour issue (hope he does not get upset with me bringing him up in this without me asking first!)....he said that he has the same problem. That he can only send one PM every so many hours.
  2. Thank you for checking in to the problem. I have talked to another member of the board and they said that they have the same PM issue where they can only send one every so many hours. The post count problem seems to have gone away =) It is just the PM issue that I am really worried about.
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    Ancient Rome

    One area that I can recommend is the Lake Nemi area. It is located in the Alban Hills. This is where 2 of Caligulas "Pleasure barges" were found, brought up, and the remains of them (after the fire) are located. (also remains from the ships in various museums around Rome as well) There was also a Temple of Diana and her sacred grove located on the Northern shore of the Lake. You can still find a large platform with niches still there up against the cliffs. There is also a huge drainage tunnel that is located there that was used to control the level of the water in the lake. Very modern for the time it was built. The drainage tunnel is in the SW portion of the Lake. Plus this area is beautiful, especially around sunset or at night!
  4. Thanks Nephele. I only have, what is saying 4% of my mailbox used. I am going to fully clean it out right now to have as little as possible in there. I know for sure I will have 1-2 PMs sitting in there that have to still get answered.
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    Newcomer to Roman History - Recommended books?

    Deffinately a book that can not be passed up at all! I read this on the flight back from Rome and luckily had more than enough time that I did not have to put it down once I started. It had so much information that I had no clue about. I give this book an A+++ Another book that I own and have read about the Emperors is called "The Roman Emperors: A biographical guide to the rulers of Imperial Rome". Covers the Emperors from Augustus to Romulus (475-476 A.D.). This book gives a great insite to all of the Emperors of Rome. Even covers the Emperors of the Roman Empire that were either deemed Emperor by the Legions while at the battle sites but not officially declaired Emperor by Rome, the Emperors that lasted only a handful of days/months, and the Emperors that were in power after the Roman Empire spilt into East and West. "The Age of the Gladiators" it is more of a Faction styled book "The Way of the Gladiator" Based more on Fact I could list many others, but all of my books are in a box at the moment since I am in the middle of moving. Can list more once they get unpacked. Of course, have many on Caligula as well. Can give titles after they are unpacked.
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    *twiddles thumbs*

    I love the "Red Green Show"! I am not much into comedy, but that is one show that always tickles my funny bone. Funny that duct tape gets mentioned. My friends and I always joke around saying that if they had duct tape on the Titanic, it would have never sank! hehe I got to help set up at a club that I work at for a movie that is going to be filmed there starting next week. Since I do lighting and such, I got to do most of the club lighting set up for the movie It was great knowing that my lighting work is going to be in a film. I know it does have the girl that was in the "Little Miss Sunshine" movie. (Do not know name of film off the top of my head. Got told, but not a movie I would be into. It is more geared towards the kids of this era).
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    Such Huge inaccuracies in movies, its scary!

    Spartacus...with Goran Visnjic.... I wish in this movie that they would have at least had some type of mention how the real Spartacus was actually a member of the Legions. It makes such a difference since this is what also helped him a lot on defeating the Romans that were sent after him and his "Slave Army". There is a good documentary called "Spartacus, behind the Myth" that is quite good and, what seems like, accurate... http://www.onlinedocumentaries4u.com/2009/...ehind-myth.html Troy... Achillies got Chryseis (Real name of Astynome) first and her Father was a priest of Apollo and that her Father had a lot to do with her return. He only got Briseis as a replacement to Chryseis. Also in Troy, I love it how they have King Menelaus being killed by Prince Hektor after he fights Prince Paris. Yes, he did fight Prince Paris, but according to myth and legend, "Aphrodite spirits Paris away inside the walls of Troy" before he can be killed. After Prince Paris is killed, Helen marries Deiphobus of Troy. After Troy gets sacked, King Menelaus wants to kill Helen, but can not due to her beauty and he takes her back......so it is intresting how Prince Hektor kills King Menelaus so early in the film and Helen runs off with Prince Paris (who is killed in battle during the war) and I guess live happily ever after! Funny how Helen ends up back in her homeland with King Menelaus, even though their relationship is never the same!
  8. So many movies have so many inaccuracies in so many ways, but some of them are just so "out of realism", they get to the point of being just hillarious. IE: The movie "Nero: The Decline of the Empire", where Hans Matheson plays Nero from Rai Radiotelevisione Italiana (Same company that did "Augustus")....they have Caligula being Emperor for around 12 years! Quite the stretch from his real reign of 37-41 and he gets murdered by being taken to a brothel. I have seen a part of one movie in passing (only watched it for around 10 minutes since it was so bad around 2 yrs ago) where the Colosseum was built and getting used before the Flavian Dynasty was even in existance. Think they had it where Nero was the one who finished the Colosseum and enjoyed the Games well before his death. What are your favourite major blunders in movies that just are not inaccurate, but so far stretched it can cause someone to just roll their eyes and wonder how anyone could ever come up with anything so far fetched.
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    UK's oldest Roman Coin found

    Amazing! To think that people from that time period, and so many others had no idea on such a little thing that happend (AkA dropping a coin) would have such a "WOW" on the world so many years later. I am so glad for this man =) Seems like all of his hours of searching really led him to such an awesome find. Just hate it how some people have to comment (in the comments section under the article) such cynical (in a bad way) comments. One person wrote something about how he found a coin in his backyard a million years old. No respect. Some people just have no idea on what an impact something like this find has on history, nor do I think they really care. Obviously, he knows nothing about history, let alone even the history of man!
  10. Grrrr....I appreciate you looking! Maybe once the excavation is further along, they will put up or have photos of more of the finds posted online. *Crosses fingers*
  11. Thanks for the info. I am not really worried about post counts at all, just thought I would mention it incase anyone else is having a problem or incase the site was having a glitch going through it for any reason. Only reason I do like post counts is to see the different names that come up...i have always found it intresting to see what "titles" you get with the more posts you get. Not a post counting nut though, so....its all good! I am hoping to hear back from an admin about the PM issue. I have so many PMs to get back to, and since I do not get much time to come onto this board, when I do, I like to answer and not ignore my other PMs but it seems I have no choice right now. Does anyone else have the problem with the PM issue that I am having? It seems that after I send one, I have to wait a minimum still of 6-8 hours before sending another one GRRR!
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    Were Gladiators Vegetarians?

    There is a documentary called "Gladiator Graveyard" http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4...82079598488912# Aside from being a good documentary, around the 35. Minute mark, they talk briefly about the Gladiators diet through bone tests that they did. They talked about how the Gladiators diet was mainly vegetarian. From the way that they made it sound in this documentary, it seems like most of it was a veggie diet, but they still had some type of meat involved. It is not directly stated, but it is the way that they make it seem. I also found this link which describes more about a Gladiators diet as well http://www.romegiftshop.com/gladiatorsdiet.html
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    personal hygiene in Rome

    I found it very intresting, speaking of the Cloaca Maxima, that especially as you walk around the Forum, you can see sewer covers set around the ground as if they were put in Yesterday. They all (at least the ones I saw) had SPQR inlayed in them. I did not though think of bending down and really studying them at all. They are very much, from what I saw, a lot like todays sewer covers that you find, except square in shape. Does anyone know what metal these were made out of?
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    Marcus Crassus Question

    Does anyone know the location of where Marcus Crassus
  15. WOW! Great find on this =) It would be so intresting if they could identify the owner of this mansion...or at least figure out what type of person owned it (land owner, senate member etc). That statue is in really good shape for being under the ground for so long. Does anyone know if there are any photographs of the earring they found anywhere online to see?
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    *twiddles thumbs*

    C'mon Rompe, surely you should know by now that booze and stairs don't mix!!! Get well soon and enjoy the book! On a personal front, yet again I'm nursing a hangover! How come the older you get, the worse the hangovers get?? Haha! Thanx for the "get well" wishes! This is the first time Im able to get back onto the board really since the accident happend. Missed being here greatly =) It was wicked wet metal outdoor stairs at the shop I work at in Berlin that got me. In the pouring rain, they get deadly. Probably would have made it better if I DID have liquor in my system at the time I have gotten a hangover 2x in my life when I was younger. Hope I never have to go through that again! Now sitting here catching up on the board, needing to start packing for my latest move (luckily around the corner)and need to go out and buy some Quack Quack tape (funny name for Duct Tape)
  17. Not exactly sure on what I would use as my Gladiatrix name. I would have to put as much thought into this as if I was coming up with a stage/performance name for band use. If I had to pull one out of a hat though, probably something (do not know it in Latin) meaning "Determined Killer" or "Fierce Warrior".
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    Fungus turns ants into zombies

    Wondering if this is just working on ants, or if any other species (or humans for that fact) injested it, if it would not have some effect on them as well? I read about this and this is one of those facts.
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    *twiddles thumbs*

    Nursing a fall down some stairs right now and a concussion. But on the good side, gives me time to read my newest Caligula book! *nurses hurt head*
  20. They really should be researching the vampire menace, clearly a more sophisticated threat. I do have to agree with you 100%, especially with all of those Twilight books and movies coming out (do not know anything about them except they have Vampires). They always say that there is a little truth behind even the oddest of fiction! Next we will have to get scientists to do a Warewolf study. I have seen quite a few people in my life that could be questionable! (Runs and gets to store Zombie repelent along with wooden stakes)
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    Athens opens Parthenon Museum

    Now THIS would be a museum to visit when I finally make my way to Athens to be a tourist (and not be on a band tour). Where I live in the USA does not even have a museum at all for any history. They only have a very vague science museum and even that is not very intresting, and this is a capital city as well! At least in Berlin they do have multiple museums, but none to match this at all. Thanks for posting up this article! Makes me have even more incentive to get to Athens as a tourist more than ever
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    Condition of Roman Forum

    You are not the only one that noticed not only the lack of places to take a rest while walking around the Forum/Palentine Hill etc, but also no real way of knowing what is what besides a placard (sorry for wrong spelling) that are placed on a few MAJOR ruins here and there. (Have some up in my photograffs that I took while I was there.) Once in awhile, it seems that they may have a very vague sign up pointing the way to something major (IE: "This way to Forum, this way to Circus Maximus etc") There is no one to ask anywhere either. I must have brought and carried around Rome (which got VERY heavy especially on the tons of stairs) around 4-5 books to give me a guide/locator on where certain things are, which ruin is which etc, but not even this helped and could not tell me which a lot was since so many layers upon layers have been built on top of one another. One thing that I did not like seeing around there, was how people will just use fallen columns, old ruins that are not blocked off from public entrance, etc as chairs, "toys" to keep their kids occupied (I saw one kid standing on an old column and trying to roll it around while hanging onto an old wall of another ruin while the parents just stood there), saw some kids hitting ruins and tossing old pieces of concrete at them, kids making graffitti etc. There is no one to even keep an eye out for anything like this. Yes, I know it is a huge place. Lots to see, lots to take in, big area...but a few little improvements would be really nice and helpful to not only help tourists get around (without having to use one of those cheesy headsets or take a vague walking tour that they offer) but to also keep the area safe from distruction.
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    All about Caligula

    Hello Marius! It is great to see yet another intrested in "Little Boots" =) I have looked through mainly all the postings on here and have read many wonderful posts that people have made reguarding Caligula. I have not gotten through them all yet, but hopefully will soon. Funny that you mention naming (or at least wanting to, which I give you much credit for!) an animal "Incitatus". I had a 3 day event warmblood horse (that was the whitish/light grey colour) that I named Incitatus. No one could ever pronounce the name correctly. I used to litterally have to spell it out on every event form "In-sit-a-tus" or else people would announce it "in-kit-ae-tis" and many other botchings of it. Sadly, the horse is no longer of this world. I wonder what Caligula would think and/or feel about people naming their animals after his? Due to how he was with his attitude flips (or from what people have written how he acted) about one minute how he may have loved the idea and thought it full of honour and the next he could have wanted everyones heads to be cut off for copying him. I have also heard of a few different things that happend to Incitatus after Caligulas death. I heard people tried to take him, people killed him, people set him out to work as a field horse, etc. Wondering exactly which one is true? I am thinking the one that they killed Incitatus seems the most accurate since it is written more than the other ideas. Salve! Rompe
  24. I am going to visit Berlin at the end of this year! is it nice there? Hey Centurion Macro! Berlin is lovely, but it also depends on what parts you are going to visit, kind of like any town. The part I grew up in "Prenzlauer Berg/Berlin", in the 80s before the wall fell, was the "Bohemian" part of Berlin and still is a very cultural area where a lot of "performers" still live (one reason I still have a place there =) ). I would be more than happy to give you some "tour advice" if you want to see anything special or any certain areas etc. Feel free to drop me a Private Message if you would like. Im more than happy to help =) Also, if you are into beautiful scenery, you do not have to drive far outside of Berlin (or take metro etc) to see beautiful rolling hills, mountains, seaside beaches etc. Wow, I am making this sound like a vacation resort! hehe
  25. I have heard about this, I think, in just about every news source known to man! I would love to know why scientists are not doing something with this money on "Zombie Research" that is useful to humanity! Not that I am not into the dead some-day walking the earth, eatting everyones brains and here comes the next evolution of man...or anything....just wow...in todays world...this is all they can do is research Zombie attacks?
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