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roman wargamer: I was suggesting that this thread be closed to avoid a possible problem between posters. I should have followed my own post to trust the respondants and moderators. I apologize, really. I would have kept this from growing. Back on your topic: . Now do you mean the differences that exist between the gospels, Mark vs Luke vs Matthew, on events and sayings? On the inevitable mistakes made by people after the fact?

To Skarr and Ursus: You two are generally level headed and should have no real issues to clash over. This topic does not seem to be proceeding into any type of a discussion appropriate to this forum. Maybe it should be moved to the Lounge, or maybe closed. In any event , it doesn't seem to be evoking any substantive Roman history responses. Wargamer: Want to try again with a more direct, and somewhat more historically pointed, opening post? This could still become an interesting discussion on the evolution of Christianity with the spirtualism vs rationalism paradox that Romans wrestled with too.

I have to share this with you. It's a moral imperative. Extreme Yak Skiing And a good piece of philosophy too: "Never shake the bucket of nuts before you're tied to the yak rope." :notworthy:

Thanks a lot. I'm sending you the bill for my new keyboard. Here I thought you might be a grrly boy..

Yes, along those lines but Parker also lets you call up low resolution images of the originals and then choose pages to have in high resolution. As you know, it's sometimes good to see the marks on the original for translation purposes as well as cross checking other translations and judging how good they are to work from....

" A $1.4 million grant awarded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation in June will fund a collaborative project in which Stanford University Libraries, the University of Cambridge and Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, will make hundreds of medieval manuscripts accessible on the Internet. The Parker on the Web project will create electronic research tools and digitize library materials, including more than 500 manuscripts at the Parker Library dating from the 6th through the 16th centuries, as well as editions, translations and secondary works." The i-Newswire article is here. Tools like these make primary source research available for the non-academician. I refer to pages like these all the time. While I'm more comfortable with print reproductions (and even the originals), nothing beats being awake at 2am - after getting the youngster settled again- and working more on my histories with the primaries right there.

I was invited by someone to another roman history forum, but I lost the url. Then someone (on another forum I post to) put up a link to this post , since we were taking about chariots in various applications. This place looked like how the original poster said his website would be like, so I looked around. The rest , as they say, is history . But I always wondered: Who was that masked man that led me here?

MEXICO CITY, Mexico (AP) -- "One of history's most infamous murder weapons, the ice pick used to kill Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky, has apparently resurfaced after being lost for decades. "The revelation comes just weeks before the 65th anniversary of Trotsky's assassination on August 20, 1940. "But tests that could prove the weapon's authenticity have been delayed by a dispute between the ice pick's owner, who is shopping it around, and Trotsky's descendants, who want it donated to a revolutionary museum -- proving that the struggle between socialist ideals and capitalism is continuing." The full article is here. Ah, the clash between capitalist pigs and murderous communists goes on.... This pick could be one of the few objects that we can definitely tie to a dramatic and important point in history.

I suggest that if people syncronize times, use GMT as the standard. In that regard, I usually have time to bounce in and out for chats between midnight to 3am GMT. Sorry that is so late for the cross Atlantic crowd. My weekends are more open though.

"WASHINGTON - Kings came from the East and brought gold, frankincense and myrrh to the infant Jesus, the Bible says. All three are typical products of Yemen, whose ancient civilization is being introduced to Americans in a big exhibit of finds made since the mid-1900s" ... "Caravan Kingdoms," on show at the Smithsonian Institution's Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, explains the country's role as a rich trading center in the Middle East 3,000 years ago. Saba

I thought it did start in 38,when the Germans invaded Poland I know the Brits declared war in 39. Let me be the first one to correct you . Nazi Germany occupied the Sudatenland in 1938, after negotiations including Great Britain. They marched into Prague on 3/15/39, effectively dissolving Czechoslovakia until after WWII. Poland was invaded on 9/1/39. That is the accepted starting point for the european part of World War II. (Japan starting the asian part with its invasion of China in 1937.)

Hmmm. Having trouble with some of the forums being fairly quiet while ones like the lounge have a bit more traffic? Goes with the online community I guess. You moderate it as you will, but I think that you should issue a warning before yanking. You could also either PM or set another line on peoples profile (visible to the member only naturally) that tells them that they have been a bit outside the boundary and may start having threads closed with just an explanation and no warning. Just a thought...

No you didn't screw it up. The advent of Christianity wasn't the only force that ended the games. There were other societal forces at work, like the differences between Northern European and Mediterranean views of group versus individual power, the change in economy to support the arena, the inflow of other philosophical view points from the East, are just a few other things to consider. Now the historyof the death penalty in the U.S. and Europe is complex and I think I will go into it later. See you then!

When you hear someone speak in person there are many non-verbal details that help form your opinion of them. On the net it is all condensed into written words and icons. Doing a stream of thought post, like a conversation in real time, is fine. But having constant spelling and grammar mistakes has the effect of slurred speach or mumbling in person...it can be irritating unless the communicator has a good reason for doing it (physical impairment, not a native language speaker, etc.). In effect you just said: It is difficult to read my posts because I don't think it's worth the time to make them readable. I don't think you wanted to give that impression, right? Okay, that's enough of that.... So, can you throw out one of your basic ideas here we can kick it around with you? Might be fun to talk it out.

Here's how most people perceive me: And I do bear a cer tain resemblance to my son: So I'll just let it sit there....

I hope to go back to Rome within the next five years. My wife and I spent a week there in 2001, but our first day there was September 10th.. It took a little extra time to get back into the U.S. In the near future I hope to go out and do some serious fly fishing (surface cast). I love being waist deep in a lake with nature sounds all around, morning mist rising, woodpeckers knocking, mosquitos draining my life's blood.... No really, I love fishing.

Just like the series of castles built later on, necessary just to convince the population that the occupation was "for real." Besides, there's that old (and more than slightly bigotted) nursery rhyme that begins with: "Taffy were a welschman, Taffy were a thief...." Lock up your valuables! :pimp:

Ancient Welsh history has been turned on its head by the discovery of a huge Roman fort. Archaeologists using special equipment to scan underneath the countryside have confirmed that a 2,000-year-old settlement at Dinefwr in Carmarthenshire would have been a huge centre of Roman military might. Spanning an area greater than two rugby pitches, it indicates controlling our ancestors was far harder work than had previously been believed. ..... National Website of Wales for the story...

THE TRIBES OF BRITAIN: Who Are We? And Where Do We Come From? by David Miles Weidenfeld

The neo-pagans in this area are having fun with the solstice falling on the first day of the new moon. Myself, or more precisely the urban pagan in me, I will be honoring the solstice by watching "Forbidden Planet" with a two-year-old who can't go to sleep with the sun out.

A concept of honor, and possibly related to arete, is the notion that honor is much like power. Power is best and most useful when it does not have to be exercised. A nation, such as the United States or France, wields a lot of power (even after WWII in the case of France) because they are perceived to be potent. But, enter a situation like the vietnamese war where they are actually called on to prove their power - not a fight for survival but to prove their prowess - and their power decreases sharply. It can be built back up again or lead to a permanate lesser status. This lessening is often the case, in my observation of history. Honor is along the same lines. If called on to prove your honor, then you don't really have much... or any at all. As a line from a favorite movie of mine put it: "Never worry about the getting of it (honor), only the losing." Arete, in my opinion, is still the prime way that people or even states, gain honor in the western world - at the very least. In this respect not much has changed over time.

Well, the courts are deciding what corporations can tell you to do in your personal life if you are an employee.

Hey Demson, a good combination a friend of mine did for awhile was using his nursing degree and anthropology training to work on archeological digs. Seems that being a medical professional with appropriate history/archeology/anthropology credentials is a ticket to far flung digs if you are willing to travel. Just a thought....

Historian by training (or so my degree says) and fanatic by nature. The only major difference I've seen between a "trained" historian and a fanatic is how primary and secondary source material is viewed and used. Fanatics seem to give secondary sources more weight than historians. However fanatics may have more knowledge on a particular subject than an historians does (provided it isn't the historians forte). Historians also seem to have an easier time saying "I don't know" and "I could be wrong," provided it isn't in their area of expertise. Have fun and keep your interest.

Ditto Ursus on the google image search. Just be sure to poke around the sites and their links. You can find a lot of stuff that doesn't come up in the search to begin with. Oy! I'm feeling old. You were born the year I graduated from high school.