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09-06-2011, 02:26 AM
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NeoTillichian Hierophant & Partisan Hack
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Join Date: Dec 2005
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Re: History geekodrome
Ruins of Roman gladiator school found in Austria
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Officials have said that in structure the discovery rivals the famous Ludus Magnus, the largest of the gladiatorial training schools in Rome.
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09-16-2011, 10:59 AM
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Astroid the Foine Loine between a Poirate and a Farrrmer
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Join Date: Feb 2011
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Re: History geekodrome
No more knights of Glin (the Black Knight), but Green Knight and White Knight still available
Alas! The Black Knight is no more, and he had no son to carry on the title! Could we now have made a quick change to the rules so his daughter could have become the Black Knightess? In a Black Nightdress?
Update: we actually ran out of White Knight yonks ago. Just green left now
Last edited by Vivisectus; 09-16-2011 at 01:21 PM.
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09-30-2011, 11:04 PM
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Stoic Derelict... The cup is empty
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Join Date: Sep 2011
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Re: History geekodrome
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Originally Posted by Angakuk
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I like to hear about these places that are abandoned and forgotten and just sort of vanish for a period. I saw a display in a museum in Augsburg, about a large Roman structure that was found by accident. If memory serves someone spotted the rectangular outline on the terrain from an airplane. All the stones had been carried away and presumably put to other uses. You could see the outline in the aerial photograph on display.
Knowing about these places is oddly comforting, for reasons I can't define.
Thus the sum of things is ever being reviewed, and mortals dependent one upon another. Some nations increase, others diminish, and in a short space the generations of living creatures are changed and like runners pass on the torch of life.
Lucretius
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10-13-2011, 03:57 PM
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Fishy mokey
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Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: Furrin parts
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Re: History geekodrome
I saw this one in Estonia:
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10-24-2011, 06:58 AM
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Stoic Derelict... The cup is empty
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Re: History geekodrome
I used to go fishing near here. This is not my pic, I just gleeped it off the internet.
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10-25-2011, 07:39 PM
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Fishy mokey
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Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: Furrin parts
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Re: History geekodrome
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The wreck of a ship thought to have taken part in a failed Mongol invasion of Japan has been found off the Japanese coast.
A team of researchers uncovered a 12-metre (36ft) section of keel buried in deep sand off Nagasaki prefecture.
They said it was the first time such a large piece of hull had been recovered from the Mongol invasion fleets.
The 13th Century attacks on Japan were a rare setback for the Mongols at the height of their powers.
Experts expressed surprise that the wreck was so well preserved after so many centuries on the seabed.
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BBC News - Ship from failed Mongol invasion found off Japan
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11-18-2011, 08:31 PM
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A Very Gentle Bort
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Join Date: Jan 2005
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Re: History geekodrome
All you haters who hated Kingdom of the Crystal Skull can SUCK IT. That shit was REAL.
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Website RPP is claiming that Renato Davila Riquelme, an anthropologist working at the Privado Ritos Andinos museum in Cusco, has discovered remains of something that isn't human. Measuring at 20 inches tall, the tiny remains were originally believed to be that of a child, but Spanish and Russian doctors disagree, saying:
"It has a non-human appearance because the head is triangular and big, almost the same size as the body. At first we believed it to be a child's body until Spanish and Russian doctors came and confirmed that, yes, it's an extraterrestrial being."
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12-22-2011, 11:20 PM
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Fishy mokey
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Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: Furrin parts
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Re: History geekodrome
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Archaeologists have discovered the ruins of an ancient Mayan city in the mountains of North Georgia believed to be at least 1,100 years old. According to Richard Thornton at Examiner.com, the ruins are reportedly what remains of a city built by Mayans fleeing wars, volcanic eruptions, droughts and famine.
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1,100-year-old Mayan ruins found in North Georgia | The Raw Story
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12-23-2011, 07:37 PM
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Solipsist
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Re: History geekodrome
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12-23-2011, 09:59 PM
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Re: History geekodrome
--J.D.
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12-23-2011, 10:25 PM
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Astroid the Foine Loine between a Poirate and a Farrrmer
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Re: History geekodrome
That sounds way too cool to be credible
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12-23-2011, 10:46 PM
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Re: History geekodrome
--J.D.
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12-23-2011, 11:18 PM
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Astroid the Foine Loine between a Poirate and a Farrrmer
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Re: History geekodrome
That small part of me WANTS to believe it so bad though!
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01-22-2012, 08:20 PM
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Dogehlaugher -Scrutari
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Re: History geekodrome
The Romance of the Far Fur trade, Hudson's Bay 250 anniversary film (made in 1919) is being re-released.
BBC News - Arctic Canada caught on 1919 silent film
I'm sort of excited. The pictures in the article show all sorts of Arctic Canadian life.
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01-22-2012, 08:32 PM
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A Warrior for Positronic Freedom!
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Re: History geekodrome
I geek out on Greek history. Peter Green's Alexander to Actium: The Historical Evolution of the Hellenistic Age is a great work of great genius. Unbelievably good.
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01-22-2012, 08:44 PM
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Stoic Derelict... The cup is empty
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Re: History geekodrome
Ultima Ratio Regum, but this one resides at the Kremlin. Hardly know whether it belongs here or in Art.
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01-28-2012, 10:07 PM
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happy now, Mussolini?
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Re: History geekodrome
From over at BLDGBLOG, this image from LANDSCAPES OF DREDGE is the cool highlight.
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01-28-2012, 10:27 PM
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Fishy mokey
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Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: Furrin parts
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Re: History geekodrome
Hmmm, I guess it really is New Amsterdam...
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03-07-2012, 09:12 AM
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Dogehlaugher -Scrutari
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Re: History geekodrome
Overdue library books!
"A book printed almost 500 years ago, which has been missing from the Archbishop Marsh’s Library in Dublin for 100 years, has made its way back home. The book, one of a five-volume set of a Theodore Gulston’s copy of the works of Galen, was returned on Friday by an anonymous do-gooder who had found the book in a junk shop. After a century away, the book has been returned to its set relatively unscathed."
http://www.worldirish.com/listening-...-in-dublin-648
There were even notes from the author and revisions inside. The book looks pretty darn good too.
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03-07-2012, 02:20 PM
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Coffin Creep
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Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: The nightmare realm
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Re: History geekodrome
library!
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03-12-2012, 07:58 PM
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A Very Gentle Bort
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Re: History geekodrome
Extra! Extra! Read all about it!
Lizzie GBorden likely not guilty as jury said!
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The notes, which were acquired by the Fall River Historical Society in Massachusetts, belonged to Andrew Jackson Jennings, the Borden family attorney. Jennings’ grandson, who passed away last year, had left the society the documents in his will. And while Jennings did not serve as Borden’s defense attorney, these documents provided the defense a lot of material for their case. And apparently, it was effective.
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04-24-2012, 10:55 PM
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happy now, Mussolini?
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Join Date: May 2006
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Re: History geekodrome
New-found letter - Phillip K. Dick's reaction to Bladerunner
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04-25-2012, 04:43 AM
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Dogehlaugher -Scrutari
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Re: History geekodrome
NEW YORK CITY!
Has released it's photo database, apparently, much like the 1940 census, the site is slammed although a few pictures are Here at the Huffington whatsit site.
Here's the real deal.
NYC Department of Records
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