One of the things that continues to baffle me is that for such an extroadinary people who achieved so much did the Romans not utilise resources that were or...
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Lola Corno
lolacorno2000
Nov 1, 2003 10:16 am
I don't know enough of bioloby or genetics to discuss this matter. But I saw on PBS a couple of years ago a documentary on gorillas. They put one gorilla in...
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Richard
gauiscaecilius
Nov 1, 2003 10:59 am
Whilst it would not be true that the Roman didn't use archers they never made as much use of them a they might. As far as I am aware it was only auxillary...
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Richard
gauiscaecilius
Nov 1, 2003 11:08 am
That all of the great apes are clever is beyond doubt but intelligence does not equate with cloe relationship to Homo Sapiens. I know that we are not closely...
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Stephen Gallagher
tiberiusgale...
Nov 1, 2003 12:45 pm
Salve Richard In my opinion, and it just that an opinion the Romans had three things which led to "tendency towards inflexibility and lack of innovation" ? As...
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Richard
gauiscaecilius
Nov 1, 2003 1:02 pm
I think that you have a very good point about the lave economy stopping progress in many areas ( though not I would suggest the military). By the time...
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Inger E Johansson
inger_e.johansson@...
Nov 1, 2003 1:04 pm
Stephen, most of your lines I can agree upon. However I am not entirely with you on the "As practical a people as the Romans were they were not in general very...
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johnmcneill_162000
johnmcneill_...
Nov 1, 2003 1:08 pm
Thank you for your message, I am impressed. However, I got the impression that not even the websites you give agree with each other completely. I suppose short...
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Stephen Gallagher
tiberiusgale...
Nov 1, 2003 1:51 pm
Salve Inger E It is simply that in the 12 centuries of Rome (753 BCE-476 CE ) they made no significant scientific breakthroughs apart from those in...
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khakiberetman
Nov 1, 2003 2:03 pm
Asinus, the donkey, has derived today in French as "âne", and in older literary English as ass. Equus, the horse, has given us the adjective equestrian, and...
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khakiberetman
Nov 1, 2003 2:12 pm
I think precisely the Romans did value archers, but they considered this a specialty at which certain selected auxiliary units were always better. For instance...
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Richard
gauiscaecilius
Nov 1, 2003 3:31 pm
Yet they didn't appreciate that as a skill learnt by all static troops it would have greatly incresed their strengh. When used as a mass archers do not need a...
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nancy
nljfs
Nov 2, 2003 3:59 am
I signed the petition... so, I'm recommending it. I'm a little upset at all the hot-headedness on all sides. Hershal Shanks has really gotten under my skin...
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Carol Williams
riorondo
Nov 2, 2003 6:04 am
I have to wonder why this thread is here and keeps going... but I guess I'll add my half penny worth... I'm not real sure what the original question was.......
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nancy
nljfs
Nov 2, 2003 6:24 am
Hi Carol, You seem to know your equid species well. Thanks for the info -- and the quote at the end! btw -- if memory serves me -- chimps have 48 chromosomes...
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Richard
gauiscaecilius
Nov 2, 2003 9:00 am
I have just been listening to Alistair Colles "Letter from America" which this morning about what a New York Times letter described as "a monumental act of...
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Richard
gauiscaecilius
Nov 2, 2003 9:06 am
Did the Romans have standard spelling of Latin and if so how was it achieved? Standadised spelling of Ebglish was achieved by Doctor Johnson when he published...
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jachthondus
Nov 2, 2003 1:56 pm
How sad! And why? I would like to know also! Didn't you get surprised seeing the Baths of Caracalla for the first time when visiting Rome, Richard? I always...
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khakiberetman
Nov 2, 2003 2:16 pm
I doubt that on a question like this, personality and politics could completely be left out. Certaily we all wish archeological matters remained simply in the...
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jachthondus
Nov 2, 2003 3:50 pm
May I be so free as to agree with you, dear Khaki. In the course of the year I happen to have followed this item via the press, via debates of a bunch of New...
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jachthondus
Nov 2, 2003 3:54 pm
Sorry! In the last sentence "scatched-out" must be "scratched-out, ofcouse! Jach. ... the ... the ... a ... UPON ... <no_reply@y...> ... matters...
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keoughje@...
keoughje
Nov 2, 2003 4:31 pm
Pennsylvania Station http://www.powwmedia.com/pennsy/ Penn Station - Pictures http://www.forgotten-ny.com/STREET%20SCENES/Penn%20Station/penn.html Amtrak's...
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Nantonos Aedui
nantonos_aedui
Nov 2, 2003 5:26 pm
Greetings nancy, Saturday, November 1, 2003, 2:05:32 AM, you wrote: n> http://www.bib-arch.org/petition.html n> They want to retest the James Ossuary, claiming...
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Nantonos Aedui
nantonos_aedui
Nov 2, 2003 5:36 pm
Greetings khakiberetman, Saturday, November 1, 2003, 3:03:09 PM, you wrote: k> Asinus, the donkey, has derived today in French as "âne", and in k> older...
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Richard
gauiscaecilius
Nov 2, 2003 5:38 pm
According to the programme because it wasn't fashionable not fitting in with the taste of the bauhaus school of architecture. The public backlash whilst too...
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Richard
gauiscaecilius
Nov 2, 2003 6:05 pm
Thank you for those links. Having seen the photos I can confirm that the interior does very much feel like the Baths of Caracalla. If you haven't already done...
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khakiberetman
Nov 2, 2003 7:10 pm
Hello Jach, I have to admit I reado some of the press articles devoted to the discovery out of curiosity, but even then, I wasn't convinced such a discovery...
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khakiberetman
Nov 2, 2003 7:15 pm
Hello Nantonos, Actually, the notion that "caballus"; was a slang term came from my lycée lessons on the origins of French. I've seen it mentioned also in the...
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jachthondus
Nov 2, 2003 8:16 pm
Yes Khaki, your are right: "caballus"; is slang! Greetings, Jach....
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Nantonos Aedui
nantonos_aedui
Nov 2, 2003 8:21 pm
Greetings khakiberetman, Sunday, November 2, 2003, 8:15:32 PM, you wrote: k> Hello Nantonos, k> Actually, the notion that "caballus"; was a slang term came from...
