14 month ago
adamrg : I'm Impressed - They Might Be Giants - Perhaps one of the most impressive music videos I've seen.
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19 month ago
adamrg : The Interactive Nolli Map of Rome Website
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26 month ago
kellan : Was Rome ruined by its own "war on terror"? - NYT op-ed. (via Rafe) [via] #
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28 month ago
plasticbag : The biography of Atia on WIkipedia differs rather dramatically from her character in HBO's Rome, which I've recently started watching on DVD - Awesome series - loads of blood and violence and sex and war and stuff. Highly entertaining. Not necessarily enormously accurate, "Atia was a religious and caring matron. Tacitus considered her as an ideal Roman Matron"
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39 month ago
kellan : Rome - Engineering an Empire - Saw this last night, surprisingly good, even for someone who has spent a little while studying Rome. #
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45 month ago
jimray : Satellite image of the line to see the pope - That's a loooooong line
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plasticbag : Attack of the Clones: How Britain came to be full of millions of identical trees - 25 million English elms died from Dutch elm disease in the 1970s, and the reason? Turns out that every single tree was a clone of a single elm introduced by the Romans...
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