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Wednesday, 12 March 2008 10:20 |
 There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's being off the network. -- Guy Almes
"I do not agree with a word you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." -- Voltaire
On the whole sex is less confusing than love, lust is less confusing than sex, and chocolate is less confusing than any of them... Chocolate is by far the safest bet in every respect, but sex is by far the most interesting. -- Jacky Fleming
I believe I found the missing link between animal and civilized man. It's us. -- Konrad Lorenz
What do we think of sex on television? Frankly, I think it's a pain. For one thing, the cable box gets wedged into your back and gets real uncomfortable.... -- Peter David
There is a vast difference between living according to one's idea of what it is to be good, and actually being that way. -- C. Terry Warner
Liposuction. . . they can suck the fat out of one part of your body and put it in another part. I think that's wrong. I want them to suck the fat out of my body, and put it in Cindy Crawford's. -- Rita Rudner
Christians are generally creepy people as a direct result of the dysfunctional dynamic of worshipping a dead naked hippie. -- Jim Marcus
There's nothing wrong with going to bed with somebody of your own sex... People should be very free with sex - they should draw the line at goats. -- Elton John
Time flies like an arrow; Fruit flies like a banana. -- G. Marx
Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend: and inside a dog, it's too dark to read. -- Groucho Marx
Personally I have always felt soixante-neuf (69) to be madly confusing, like trying to pat your head and rub your stomach at the same time. -- Helen Lawrenson
Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare. -- Japanese Proverb
Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and, instead of bleeding, he sings. -- Ed Gardner
Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them. -- Samuel Butler
A hard man is good to find. -- Mae West
Good sex is like good Bridge. If you don't have a good partner, you'd better have a good hand. -- Mae West
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Saturday, 08 March 2008 19:28 |
The Bible tells us that God created Adam and Eve just a few thousand years ago, by some fundamentalist interpretations. Science informs us that this is mere fiction and that man is a few million years old, and that civilization just tens of thousands of years old. Could it be, however, that conventional science is just as mistaken as the Bible stories? There is a great deal of archeological evidence that the history of life on earth might be far different than what current geological and anthropological texts tell us. Consider these astonishing finds:
The Grooved Spheres Over the last few decades, miners in South Africa have been digging up mysterious metal spheres. Origin unknown, these spheres measure approximately an inch or so in diameter, and some are etched with three parallel grooves running around the equator. Two types of spheres have been found: one is composed of a solid bluish metal with flecks of white; the other is hollowed out and filled with a spongy white substance. The kicker is that the rock in which they where found is Precambrian - and dated to 2.8 billion years old! Who made them and for what purpose is unknown.
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Saturday, 08 March 2008 19:15 |
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The Roman province of Dacia was limited to the modern Romanian regions of Transylvania, the Banat and Oltenia, and temporally, Muntenia and southern Moldova. It was under a governor of praetorian rank, and Legio XIII Gemina with numerous auxiliaries had their fixed quarters in the province. Due to a decrease in population of the conquered territory, caused by the Dacian Wars and consequent flight of many Dacians north of the Carpathians, colonists were brought over to cultivate the land and work the gold mines alongside the Dacian population that can be seen on Trajan's Column submitting to Trajan during the Dacian Wars. The colonists, besides the Roman troops, were mainly first- or second-generation Roman colonists from Noricum or Pannonia, later supplemented with colonists from other provinces: South Thracians (from the provinces of Moesia or Thrace) and settlers from the Roman provinces of Asia Minor.  For protection against the attacks of the Free Dacians, Carpians and other neighbouring tribes, the Romans built forts and delimited the Roman held territory with limes. Three great military roads were constructed, that linked the chief towns of the province. A fourth road, named after Trajan, ran through the Carpathians and entered Transylvania through the Turnu Ro?u mountain pass. The chief towns of the province were Sarmizegetusa (Colonia Ulpia Traiana Sarmizegetusa), Apulum, Napoca and Potaissa).
In 129, Hadrian divided Dacia into Dacia Superior and Dacia Inferior, the former comprising Transylvania and the latter Oltenia. Marcus Aurelius redivided it into three (tres Daciae): Porolissensis, from the chief town Porolissum, Apulensis, from Apulum, and Malvensis from Malva (site unknown). The tres Daciae formed a single society insofar as they had a common capital, Ulpia Traiana Sarmizegetusa, and a common assembly, which discussed provincial affairs, formulated complaints and adjusted the incidence of taxation. However, in other respects they were practically independent provinces, each under an ordinary procurator, subordinate to a governor of consular rank. Below Right: A Roman Soldier Attacking a Thracian Warrior holding a Rhomphaia, or the classic curved sword used by these tribesmen. From an Early 1st Century BC. carving. |
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