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Next bubble college loans.
Funny I was so Republican but now I find them despicable ......the party I once voted for is now estranged from me. Weird!
Just a suggestion.
You might need anger management.
Good!
Steph I agree we could use more women leaders.... Coming from a male..... I don't understand how women think. I do understand you all are more nurturing and patient. We could use that right now.
His hatred of Jews ruined his career. Sad I liked him.
With all due respect...no joke on that....don't throw out some silly cookie cutter statement and expect people not to comment on it.
The Nazis took meticulous records....6 million is accurate!
Really.. I am!
Lol can't run from bill collectors!
I hope he bans me or PN gives him the boot...watching both boards...GOV and this one...who does the right thing.
He is snide and nasty ....but with class!
Holocaust deniers do the same Stamp on the truth!
Why does anybody let you post on their board?
Still off by 4 million.....your views on blacks disturb me too! All this shit surfaced over a supposed bill for a gun ban.....you lost it...WTF,
What does that have to do with you thinking 1 million Jews were murdered in the Holocaust? You post that on other boards.....why not here? My count....6 million!
Total bullshit answer!
Your numbers are way off!
Noir does not. I did not look at the big picture but 20 years later....they are still the same. Tombstone ..I Tried!
What does that have to do with my original post? You deny the Holocaust?
Your views on the the amount of Jews murdered in the Holocaust is one of them.....so is your views on Civil Rights.
How about 6 million....that's been established!
Beyonce is super hot...she can do what she wants!
How many Jews do you think died in the Holocaust?
So in English you are a Holocaust Denier.....enough said! No board should let you post!
Despising a President is not grounds for impeachment.
Impeached for what?
That sound is me clapping!
So it never happened? What are you saying?
Sherman I love you but your posts lately are disturbing.
I was a good guy in Somalia and Bosnia.....fed kids protected a picked on Minority! I'm not ashamed...just wish it wasn't so hard. Democracy is not a bad thing Wall. PS Saw your education on God here... How did that work out? LOL!
Two thumbs up!
Wow! Great post! I am curious as to what will happen!
Here we go
In some versions of the myth, no men were permitted to have sexual encounters or reside in Amazon country; but once a year, in order to prevent their race from dying out, they visited the Gargareans, a neighbouring tribe. The male children who were the result of these visits were either killed, sent back to their fathers or exposed in the wilderness to fend for themselves; the girls were kept and brought up by their mothers, and trained in agricultural pursuits, hunting, and the art of war. In other versions when the Amazons went to war they would not kill all the men. Some they would take as slaves, and once or twice a year they would have sex with their slaves.[9]
The intermarriage of Amazons and men from other tribes was also used to explain the origin of various people. For example, the story of the Amazons settling with the Scythians (Herodotus Histories 4.110.1-117.1).[10]
In the Iliad, the Amazons were referred to as Antianeirai ("those who fight like men").
The Amazons appear in Greek art of the Archaic period and in connection with several Greek legends. They invaded Lycia, but were defeated by Bellerophon, who was sent against them by Iobates, the king of that country, in the hope that he might meet his death at their hands.[11][12] The tomb of Myrine is mentioned in the Iliad; later interpretation made of her an Amazon: according to Diodorus,[13] Queen Myrine led her Amazons to victory against Libya and much of Gorgon.
They attacked the Phrygians, who were assisted by Priam, then a young man.[14]In his later years, however, towards the end of the Trojan War, his old opponents took his side against the Greeks under their queen Penthesilea "of Thracian birth", who was slain by Achilles.[15][16][17][18][19][20]
One of the tasks imposed upon Heracles by Eurystheus was to obtain possession of the girdle of the Amazonian queen Hippolyta.[21][22][23][24] He was accompanied by his friend Theseus, who carried off the princess Antiope, sister of Hippolyta, an incident which led to a retaliatory invasion of Attica,[25][26] in which Antiope perished fighting by the side of Theseus. In some versions, however, Theseus marries Hippolyta and in others, he marries Antiope and she does not die; by this marriage with the Amazon Theseus had a son Hippolytus. The battle between the Athenians and Amazons is often commemorated in an entire genre of art, amazonomachy, in marble bas-reliefs such as from the Parthenon or the sculptures of the Mausoleum of Halicarnassus.
Thalestris, Queen of the Amazons, visits Alexander (1696)
The Amazons are also said to have undertaken an expedition against the island of Leuke, at the mouth of the Danube, where the ashes of Achilles had been deposited by Thetis. The ghost of the dead hero appeared and so terrified the horses, that they threw and trampled upon the invaders, who were forced to retire. Pompey is said to have found them in the army of Mithridates.
They are heard of in the time of Alexander, when some of the king's biographers make mention of Amazon Queen Thalestris visiting him and becoming a mother by him (the story is known from the Alexander Romance). However, several other biographers of Alexander dispute the claim, including the highly regarded secondary source, Plutarch. In his writing he makes mention of a moment when Alexander's secondary naval commander, Onesicritus, was reading the Amazon passage of his Alexander history to King Lysimachus of Thrace who was on the original expedition: the king smiled at him and said "And where was I, then?"
The Roman writer Virgil's characterization of the Volscian warrior maiden Camilla in the Aeneid borrows heavily from the myth of the Amazons.
Jordanes' Getica (c. 560), purporting to give the earliest history of the Goths, relates that the Goths' ancestors, descendants of Magog, originally dwelt within Scythia, on the Sea of Azov between the Dnieper and Don Rivers. After a few centuries, following an incident where the Goths' women successfully fended off a raid by a neighboring tribe, while the menfolk were off campaigning against Pharaoh Vesosis, the women formed their own army under Marpesia and crossed the Don, invading Asia. Her sister Lampedo remained in Europe to guard the homeland. They procreated with men once a year. These Amazons conquered Armenia, Syria, and all of Asia Minor, even reaching Ionia and Aeolia, holding this vast territory for 100 years. Jordanes also mentions that they fought with Hercules, and in the Trojan War, and that a smaller contingent of them endured in the Caucasus Mountains until the time of Alexander. He mentions by name the Queens Menalippe, Hippolyta, and Penthesilea.
I hope I get on it!
RIP Ed Koch
Love him it or hate him.....he was a leader.
http://redarmada.tumblr.com/post/7221727110
Tracing of the drawing
The image depicts a human-like figure attached to a cross and possessing the head of a donkey. In the top right of the image appears what has been variously interpreted as either the Greek letter upsilon or a tau cross.[1] To the left of the image is a young man, apparently intended to represent Alexamenos,[3] a Roman soldier/guard, raising one hand in a gesture possibly suggesting worship.[4][5] Beneath the cross there is a caption written in crude Greek: ??e?aµe??? ?eßete ?e??. In standard Greek, ?eßete should be understood as a variant spelling (possibly a phonetic misspelling)[6] of Standard Greek ?eßeta?, which means "worships". As a result, the full inscription would then be translated as "Alexamenos worships [his] God".[6][7][8] Several other sources suggest "Alexamenos worshipping God", or similar variants, as the intended translation.[9][10][11][12]
[edit]Date
No clear consensus has been reached as to the date in which the image was originally made. Dates ranging from the late 1st to the late 3rd century have been suggested,[13] although the beginning of the 3rd century is thought the most likely date.[7][14][15]
[edit]Discovery and location
The graffito was discovered in 1857 when a building called the domus Gelotiana was unearthed on the Palatine Hill. The emperor Caligula had acquired the house for the imperial palace, which, after Caligula died, became used as a Paedagogium or boarding-school for the imperial page boys. Later the street on which the house sat was walled off to give support to extensions to the buildings above, and it thus remained sealed for centuries.[16] The graffito is today housed in the Palatine antiquarium in Rome.[17]
[edit]Interpretation
That is a good post. The once cleared always cleared dogma is right on point. Never thought of that.
Planning to arm everybody because of a Madman.....makes us all Madmen!