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  1. Empire of Freedom: The History of the American Empire

    Unless you are, wait for it...

  2. A Second Sapient Species

    I'm always in favor of sentient Proboscidea. They have a social structure, complex communication, intelligence, and the ability to manipulate tools and their environment. I think given time and a relativly isolated environment, they could develop a sentience recognizable by humans.

  3. WI Troy had survived?

    I posted a thread similar to this a long while ago as a DBWI Achilles not being in the war. It only got as far a the epic being named the Hektoriad, Aeneas founding a Rome analogue as a Trojan colony, and the Greek survivors under Odysseus finally settling in Carthage (with the assumption he...

  4. Deadliest Warrior

    I just saw that one too... I never realized how damn FAST the Apache knife fighters were :-o

  5. Deadliest Warrior

    Has anyone else seen The Deadliest Warrior on Spike? It's an AH fanboy's wet dream! The premise is that they take two warriors from different periods, run some performance tests on their weapons and equipment, and use a statistical analysis to determine who would win the fight. And, as a...

  6. greek based english

    Well, assuming that it does happen somehow, the biggest difference I think would be in spelling. Words ending in -us would shift to -os, hard c's would be replaced by k's... "In the desert, many varieties of kaktos grow." Maybe...

  7. DBWI: Breaking news - bomb kills the whole Jerusalem Royal Family

    Wow, all this broo-ha-ha in the KoJ makes me glad I live in Kalmar. I actually am quite familiar with the poverty issues, since I work in the office of His Majesty King Christian XII's Royal Charities, and we send a lot of kroner to Palestine. I'm glad to hear Pinochet worked something out...

  8. Varus Victis

    We'll see a more aggressive Roman expansion into Germania. It was Varus defeat that prompted Augustus to set the Empire's border at the Rhine With Arminius defeated, the only remaining significant tribe is the Macromanni in Bohemia under King Marbod. And if I remember correctly, there be gold...

  9. DBWI: Achilles Goes to War

    I think that was just a fabrication in the movie, to add some dramatic tension. It seemed to me a bit out of places for the minor roll Achilles had. I just re read my copy of The Hektoriad, and I was wrong in my first post... he did go to war, but left before things really got started...

  10. WI Pork was accepted by all

    The first thing I thought of when I saw this thread was the Turtledove story with this premise. I think the conclusion was that if such an animal existed, it would indeed be kosher, since pigs are not specifically outlawed, but don't chew cud, so are forbidden.

  11. DBWI: Achilles Goes to War

    You know, that might be why the Greeks failed... lost confidence in their leader. Agamemnon couldn't control Achilles, so discipline just sort of broke down. There's a stanza in The Hektoriad about the argument between Achilles and Agamemnon being heard by the wall sentries. If the Trojans...

  12. DBWI: Achilles Goes to War

    OOC: I was supposing that Aeneas set out on an official expedition to found a new Trojan colony, which eventually became Rome. Odysseus , with the remnant of teh Greek force tries to make it home, but ends up in North Africa. You're right, though, following the timeline of the Aeniad, Dido...

  13. DBWI: Achilles Goes to War

    I just thinks it's kind of ironic... Aeneas leaves Troy to found a colony that eventually becomes Rome, while the remnant of the Greek force under Odysseus ends up founding Carthage. Perhaps it was the legend of their defeat at the walls of Troy that inspired them to attack Rome during the...

  14. DBWI: Achilles Goes to War

    So I was just watching Troy, and was wondering what the siege of Troy would have been like if Achilles had been convinced to go with the Greeks. I kniw he's a minor character, and yes, the film is not the best adaptation of The Hektoriad [OOC: I know that isn't right, but i couldn't find the...

  15. Look to the West (Thande's first proper timeline, and it's about time!)

    Well, to be honest, I looked up the blazon for the escutcheon of Hanover, and copy and pasted it. I'm not certain the position for the snakes is correct (i.e. in pile inverted), but it was the closest arrangement I could find. Most charges in pile are in some triangular number (3 or 6) so you...

  16. Look to the West (Thande's first proper timeline, and it's about time!)

    Then allow me, since I'm a bit of a heraldry geek: Quarterly, first Gules three lions passant gardant in pale Or armed and langued Azure, second Or a lion rampant within a double tressure flory-counter-flory Gules, third Azure a harp Or stringed Argent, fourth Gules five serpents erect in...

  17. Challenge: A Matriarchal World

    Honestly, it's been a while since I read the book, so I cannot state matter of factly what the specific evidence is. I believe she cites achaeological evidence from different temples, and linguistic trends from the Semitic languages through the Indo-European languages of the time. I'm no...

  18. Challenge: A Matriarchal World

    I think it goes back to the influences of the Indo-Europeans. They were a patriarchal society that supplanted a matriarchal one. When proto-Judaism developed, it was influenced by the dominant culture. You can even see this in the Old Testamant, when names of the pagan gods are used. They...

  19. Challenge: A Matriarchal World

    I her book When God Was a Woman, Merlin Stone postulates that most of the ancient civilizations of the Mid East and Turkey were matriarchal to some extant. She states that the dominant religion was on of goddess worship and fertility rites. It wasn't until the Indo-Europeans migrated in, with...

  20. The mist

    That's not how the novella ends. **Spoiler Below** As they are traveling down the highway, they keep scanning through the radio to see if anyone else survived. Eventually, they here a snippet on one band that just says "...Hartford..." and the story ends with them heading that way.
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