Attention Reenactors! Tomorrow, September 1st, REENACTORSTUFF.COM <http://www.reenactorstuff.com/>, a new auction site especially for reenactors is going live!...
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Richard
gauiscaecilius
Sep 1, 2003 7:53 am
Rome's presence and influence on large islands such as Crete, Rhdes, Siciliy etc are quite well documented. However I wonder how much Rome had a presence or...
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Richard
gauiscaecilius
Sep 1, 2003 8:27 am
Welcome to the Imperial Rome group where we discuss just about anything to do with Rome, Byzantium and the cultures that surround them. I hope that you will...
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jachthondus
Sep 1, 2003 9:11 am
And what about Corsica? I know that it was a part of the Province of Sicilia, but the only thing I read about it is that the Romans occasionally used to go ...
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Sogoln
Sep 1, 2003 9:54 am
Regarding Corsica, it was colonized by the Etruscans, the Phenicians and the Phoceans before the Romans took over it. Actually, the conquest took about one...
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Richard
gauiscaecilius
Sep 1, 2003 11:25 am
Thank you for this info. It always suprises me as to how much of the territory supposedly Roman does not impact on the history books. I knew that the Canaries...
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Neil
bwanker69
Sep 1, 2003 12:59 pm
thanks for inviting me to this group, when I've had a chance to read some of the messages I'll start responding to them. In the meantime I've added another...
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Julia Grant
oceanwytch
Sep 1, 2003 1:20 pm
Hello again, I was wondering how many people here are from the US? There is a wonderful event going on in a few weeks called Roman Market Day. It is going to...
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Julia Grant
oceanwytch
Sep 1, 2003 1:32 pm
Hello! Thank you for inviting me to this list. It's nice to find a group of people who I can discuss my passion with. Rome has been my passion for as long as I...
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khakiberetman
Sep 1, 2003 1:50 pm
The Romans arrived in Corsica and Sardinia after the first punic war and I suspect they had good economic reasons to settle there. The Etruscans had long had...
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Marsh Wise
varianvs
Sep 1, 2003 4:42 pm
Well, spiffy. I see it managed to post the auction announcement 3-4 times. Sometimes I really HATE yahoo... it didn't go through the first coupla times, hell,...
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Richard
gauiscaecilius
Sep 1, 2003 4:58 pm
You are not the first an unlikely to be the last to express such sentiments! ... first ... about ... couple of...
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Richard
gauiscaecilius
Sep 1, 2003 5:04 pm
I have a memory that Sardinia was quite an important grain produces. Not of the status of Sicily or Africa province but still significant. Trouble is I can't...
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varianvs
Sep 1, 2003 5:07 pm
Richard, I liked it much better when it was egoups. Yahho is like, the Borg of the Internet -- they buy stuff out, then change it so much they mess it all up,...
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Richard
gauiscaecilius
Sep 1, 2003 6:59 pm
Your very welcome. I like the photos of Herculaneum. I visited it when I was in my early teens and it was one of the things that got me going with regards...
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Richard
gauiscaecilius
Sep 1, 2003 7:04 pm
Well you are certainly in the right place if Rome is your passion. Visiting Rome is one of my ambitions and one that IU will achieve in under two weeks as I am...
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Richard
gauiscaecilius
Sep 2, 2003 6:26 am
Welcome to the Imperial Rome group where we discuss just about anything to do with Rome, Byzantium and the cultures that surround them. I hope you all will...
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johnmcneill_162000
johnmcneill_...
Sep 2, 2003 12:24 pm
Thank you for your well-informed message. I think that in a real nuclear war most warheads would explode on the ground, as fuses which explode in the air are...
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johnmcneill_162000
johnmcneill_...
Sep 2, 2003 12:53 pm
Salvete omnes I have just learned from a book about the 'Celts' that the Gauls spoke a form of Welsh, which is interesting. The author of this book is a bard...
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Richard
gauiscaecilius
Sep 2, 2003 1:12 pm
All the Celtic languages are related. To list all the current ones Breton. Gaelic, Welsh, Cornish, Basque and Celtic. A colleague of mine who is Irish and...
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Neil
bwanker69
Sep 2, 2003 4:15 pm
if memory serves ... the fact that mud covered Herculaneum allowed for better encapsulation for solid material but the biomaterial in the mud didn't allow for...
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Richard
gauiscaecilius
Sep 2, 2003 5:28 pm
Very little of an organic nature survived but the current thoughts on the cause are different. A Phyroclastic (probably mis-spelled) surge and collapse sent a...
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Mary Harrsch
presencefrom...
Sep 2, 2003 6:17 pm
The History Channel (through Sept. 16): Roman Siege Warfare Roman vs. Roman Roman Weapons (Conquest episode) Who Killed Julius Caesar Hadrian's Wall The...
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Neil
bwanker69
Sep 2, 2003 6:43 pm
thanks for the info... Neil ... on ... surge ... allowed ... in ... it ... to...
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Ben McGarr
celteuskara
Sep 3, 2003 3:03 am
... The Welsh more correctly speak a modern form of Gaulish, though the majority are rather found to speak a form of English these days. ... Uhuh... I might...
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marigold castle
gloirelyonnaise
Sep 3, 2003 4:21 am
Darn. You mean I'm not really descended from Odin and a Welsh giant? I'm crushed. Ben McGarr <benmcgarr@...> wrote: <I probably should add, in case...
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Richard
gauiscaecilius
Sep 3, 2003 6:06 am
At least its better than my ancestry. As a man of Kent whose ancestors lived between Dover and the rest of Britain my ancestors probably include every invador...
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Richard
gauiscaecilius
Sep 3, 2003 6:16 am
With the umpteenth repeat (not that I object in the least) of "What the Roman did for us" last night I was reminded of one of the greatest Roman invention...
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Richard
gauiscaecilius
Sep 3, 2003 6:20 am
In the same programme as the quick set was demonstrated the Hydraulis or Water organ. This instrument was much loved by Nero who played it to the dismay of his...
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ianmcl2000
Sep 3, 2003 7:20 am
Don't write your ancestors off just yet. Especially if you are descended from the common folk you may find that you have ancestors that have inhabited the same...
