On the 18th September AD 96 another of those dreadful Roman Emperors was done in. This time it was Domitian. His father had been the great military commander Vespasian, who started work on the Colosseum. Domitian succeeded his equally good brother, Titus, but when he fell ill, he left orders to his attendants to let him starve.
Domitian was a sadist and as he grew older he lost his good looks and athletic frame. He took his brother’s daughter as a mistress and executed a man after he had taken his wife from him, because he had joked about it with Titus. His wife hatched a plot with another who also feared for his life, using other members of the Emperor’s exasperated staff.
The assassination came days after Domitian had celebrated his 15th anniversary as Emperor.
The man who would do the deed was Stephanus, the steward to  the Emperor’s niece, Domitilla. Days before he began wearing a sling, feigning an injury. On the 18th September he placed a dagger in it and at a good moment pulled it out, stabbing Domitian in the groin. The two wrestled for their lives, until four more plotters came in and stabbed the Emperor a further seven times.
He was succeeded by a 65 year old Nerva, who was elected by the Senate and who died of natural causes. He was the first of the Five Good Emperors.
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Cannot say that in Hereford, someone might think I was Welsh!
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The same way “American” did.
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You’re tecnically not American, you’re (probably) an European that is living in a huge British Colony that gained independence.
You’re a USA citizien!
Here’s a pic of an American:
:-D :-D :-D :-D
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You’re tecnically not American, you’re (probably) an European that is living in a huge British Colony that gained independence. You’re a USA citizien! Here’s a pic of an American:
One could take this argument further by saying that the ancestors of the North, Central and South American indigineous peoples were themselves non-Americans who crossed into this part of the world over the Bering Land Bridge some 20,000 years ago. Going back even further, one could even argue that we Cro-Magnons took over the entire planet from the Neanderthals and exterminated them in the process.
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and exterminated them
And who are we to sit around after the fact, and decide if they were right or wrong? :P
I know… let’s make ANOTHER nation in the middle east, and their special forces can go around hunting down all of humanity, for being descendants of Cro-Magnum man, and we can put them on trial for the crimes of their fathers.
Oh, and they can pay the bill too.
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You can’t identify an American Culture in the United States tho’, when I think of American Culture I think about the various Natives. Maybe in 1000 years the differencies between Europeans and Americans will be very deep, but as for now I don’t find the United States people so different from the Europeans culturally.
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Hey Noll, are you Etruscan, Greek, Latin, Sabine, Norman, or God forbid, Carthaginian?
As I was born in Sicily, I might have blood in these lines:
Latin, Greek, Norman, Arabian, Carthaginian.PS: what’s wrong with Carthaginians? :O
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Hey Noll, are you Etruscan, Greek, Latin, Sabine, Norman, or God forbid, Carthaginian?
As I was born in Sicily, I might have blood in these lines:
Latin, Greek, Norman, Arabian, Carthaginian.PS: what’s wrong with Carthaginians? :O
I think this is the correct answer Noll… found in classic cinema. :)
FOUL LANGUAGE/VIEWER DISCRETION WARNING
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_svnsF5OLbI
:)
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Hey Noll, are you Etruscan, Greek, Latin, Sabine, Norman, or God forbid, Carthaginian?
As I was born in Sicily, I might have blood in these lines:
Latin, Greek, Norman, Arabian, Carthaginian.PS: what’s wrong with Carthaginians? :O
I think this is the correct answer Noll…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_svnsF5OLbI
:)
AHAHAhAhAHAHAHAhAh :-D :-D :-D :-D
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BTW both me and my wife are pale white, with frekles and she has red hair. Very African :-D
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Even tho’ I’m Italian, it was the Romans that were asses to the Carthaginians, and not the other way.
And I never talked about human rights/colonialism/etc…
I’m just saying, there’s not yet much differencies between the white people living in America and the Europeans at the moment. Maybe in 1000 years there will be enough cultural differencies, but not now for sure. Samething could be said about Canada and Australia.
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I’m no fan of Europeans’ treatment of natives.
Are you kidding me?
We pay the bills, for their education, drug use, double-average crime rate, cultural preservation, land development, and health care costs. We are basically enslaved to them.
If the European treatment was as bad as the Natives make it sound to be, then there wouldn’t BE natives talking about.
Imagine if the tables were reversed, and the Natives found Europe in 1492, we certainly wouldn’t be featured in their culture works, or benefit from their working class FOR THE REST OF TIME.
Echuta!
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