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Re: Enjoy - 17 years ago
After 454, Orestes, a Pannonian who had been one of Attila's secretaries, entered Roman service, and took control of the army. In 475, his son was elected as Emperor during his father's regency. However, discontented German mercenaries demanded that the system for the handing over of land be reorganized in their favour, an ultimatum to which Orestes refused to listen. This was not onby Hermione - Ancient History
Re: Size does matter - with piccies 
- 17 years ago
"Its life size suggests it may well have been used as a sex aid by its Ice Age makers, scientists report. "In addition to being a symbolic representation of male genitalia, it was also at times used for knapping flints," explained Professor Nicholas Conard" WERE there such things as sex aids in the Ice Age ??? If so, then I suppose this must be an interesting combinatioby Hermione - Humanities
Re: How to be a Southern Belle - 17 years ago
Indeed, do you have to have the girdle round your waist? Could you wear it on your head, perhaps, as a fetching sun-hat ... ??? (Although I suppose you'd have to be careful about fluttering your eyelashes, or they'd get caught up in the hooks-and-eyes ... )by Hermione - Humanities
Re: How to be a Southern Belle - 17 years ago
Katherine Reece Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Never be seen without your makeup and girdle. Er ... does this mean that the girdle has to be worn OVER your other clothes ... ?? (!)by Hermione - Humanities
Re: The origin of the degree and the base 60 system. - 17 years ago
$20 ... to read a directory ... which isn't actually working yet ... I'll save the money and put it towards "After the Ice" (or even the new Harry Potter) ...by Hermione - Ancient History
Re: See you all in a month - 17 years ago
Have a lovely time, Pete! Take lots of piccies ...by Hermione - Coffee Shop
Re: Shiprock, NM Flea Market - 17 years ago
Stephanie Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > My husband is on travel again but when he gets > back, I can see if he knows the original name of > the Zuni. I have got it buried somewhere in my notes ... but it's been a long time since I looked at it ... You weren't that far away at St. Johns. > Maybe an hours more driving to get toby Hermione - Humanities
Re: Excellent Crop Circle pages - 17 years ago
I've been visiting Wiltshire during the summer months for several decades now ... how come I never get to see any balls of light hovering interestingly above the ground ?? I feel very deprived ...by Hermione - Coffee Shop
Re: A rather strange announcement! - 17 years ago
Congratulations to you both, whatever name/s you decide to take!by Hermione - Coffee Shop
Re: Phoenician Coastal Explorations - 17 years ago
Yes ... I've got Markoe, too, but I didn't feel up to the task of copying out entire paragraphs like Damian did ... I suppose one might have scanned them in (unfortunately, my scanner is feeling elderly and fractious these days, so wouldn't have been up to the task either) ...by Hermione - Ancient History
Re: Shiprock, NM Flea Market - 17 years ago
Having looked at the map, it seems to me that Shiprock and Window Rock are an awfully long way from anywhere that I went when I was in NM ... we got as far as St. John's, Arizona (we were looking for a place known as Zuni Heaven (although IIRC Zuni was the Spanish name bestowed on that particular Native American tribe - I can't remember what their real name was). We did eventually succby Hermione - Humanities
Re: Phoenician Coastal Explorations - 17 years ago
(Well, I tend not to be very keen on Wikipedia, as a rule ... I would usually try and check what it says against other sources.) However, as even Wikipedia says in this instance: "the origins of the Phoenicians are still unknown" ... which is more or less what Glenn Markoe says.by Hermione - Ancient History
Re: Phoenician Coastal Explorations - 17 years ago
But apparently little is known about the origins of the Phoenicians ...by Hermione - Ancient History
Re: Scientific Accuracy - 17 years ago
renee Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > i am not familar with occam's razor. would you > explain occam's razor for me,please?by Hermione - Laboratory
Re: Something that I don't understand about the German ruins story- - 17 years ago
Jon K Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > > wouldnt it be easier to just label it a Society. > and be done with it. It might be easier ... I don't know whether it would necessarily be better. all the semantic debating > just makes it harder to move forward in research > when a basic definition can not even be > established.by Hermione - Ancient History
Re: Recovering Art - 17 years ago
Apparently, it took place in 1992 ...by Hermione - Ancient History
Re: Recovering Art - 17 years ago
Some years ago - was it the early 1990s? - the Cairo Museum suffered an earthquake; several of the antiquities - some of them not as well stored as they might have been - were damaged, and, according to some observers, it took quite some while for matters to be put right. One would hope that the situation has since improved ...by Hermione - Ancient History
Re: Moderator's Note - 17 years ago
Stephanie Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Who me? Never!! They're children's books, for > goodness' sake!! Maybe I should have included a smily ... well, better late than never: It seems very quiet this morning ... I suppose everyone must now be reading the opus in question ... (we're probably getting one from Tesco's lateby Hermione - Paper Lens
Re: Moderator's Note - 17 years ago
Stephanie Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Phew, glad to hear that. My son and I were > talking about who was going to die and both of us > were like "no no, not Hermione or Ron!". Oh, YOU were worried ... !!!by Hermione - Paper Lens
Re: Using Hermione's suggestion - 17 years ago
Giza's co-ordinates are 29 dg 59' N, 31 dg 08' E. The co-ordinates on my Google Earth screen appear as, say, 29 d 58' 17.39" ... but as I can't find the particular sites mentioned, and don't know my way around the area well enough to be able to spot them, I can't provide any more information, I'm afraid ...by Hermione - Ancient History
Re: Request for info: Locations of VTs and Sphinx Temple ?? - 17 years ago
Commiserations, teacup ... perhaps someone here will either have, or know where to find, those particular co-ordinates ... (in fact, when I looked more closely at Google Earth, I couldn't find those locations) ...by Hermione - Ancient History
Re: Request for info: Locations of VTs and Sphinx Temple ?? - 17 years ago
If you've got a fast connection, teacup, you could try Google Earth ; head for Cairo, and then the Sphinx.by Hermione - Ancient History
Re: Yoke, Scales and Cubit - 17 years ago
Mick Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Quote: > More recently one has come to realize that a > number of documents indicate the use of a unit > equal to 1 1/3 royal cubit. > Stecchini It would have been very helpful, surely, if LS had cited details of the relevant documents.by Hermione - Ancient History
Re: Moderator's Note - 17 years ago
Actually, Mike, I just keep taking the tablets ...by Hermione - Paper Lens
Re: Scary developments in the EU Internet Media - 17 years ago
Sue Wrote: >Here in Houston, if there's a TV show > I really want to see, I tape it and fast forward > through the endless commercials. Here they run to > four or five minutes each, about five or six times > per hour. It's horrible. The last time I was in Houston was some years ago, but I seem to remember that it was just as bad then. I forget how many TV chaby Hermione - Paper Lens
Re: Scary developments in the EU Internet Media - 17 years ago
Stephen Tonkin Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > What does concern me is relaxing the rules on > advertising on TV. I would not like us ot be in > the same situation as I encountered across the > pond, where, a programme on TV would have adverts > at an increasing frequency as the programme > progressed, from say 30 min intervals at tehby Hermione - Paper Lens
Re: Moderator's Note - 17 years ago
Stephanie Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Having > Hermione or Ron die would be just...ugh. Eeeeeeeek!!by Hermione - Paper Lens
Re: African Grey Parrot understands concept of Zero - 17 years ago
It was a beautiful parrot, too ... although I can't help thinking that it would be more at home flying round the African jungle, which is what it was designed for, rather than taking part in mathematical experiments.by Hermione - Laboratory