09-04-2006, 05:23 AM
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Don't you dare put me on that list! Put me back on your Christmas card list instead! - 
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- "esc(x) cot(x) dx = -csc(x)!" Dennis added, and the wizard's robe caught on fire. "Gosh," Dennis said, "and some people say higher math isn't relevant." >>>Inventor of the Mail order-Assassin<<< And *This*...is a Black Hole - BYE! |
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09-04-2006, 05:26 AM
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You beat me to posting this, Jelena...
THE LIST 1. The Thread™ 2. The Thread™ 3. The Thread™ 4. The Thread™ 5. The Thread™ 6. RLacey ... ... ... (∞ - a bit). (∞ - a bit). |
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09-04-2006, 05:45 AM
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09-04-2006, 06:08 AM
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- "esc(x) cot(x) dx = -csc(x)!" Dennis added, and the wizard's robe caught on fire. "Gosh," Dennis said, "and some people say higher math isn't relevant." >>>Inventor of the Mail order-Assassin<<< And *This*...is a Black Hole - BYE! |
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09-04-2006, 06:34 AM
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I feel that I might regret asking this, but...
Who is Kuno? Note that this response also answers your quesiton. |
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09-04-2006, 06:42 AM
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My Dobermann, silly! -
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- "esc(x) cot(x) dx = -csc(x)!" Dennis added, and the wizard's robe caught on fire. "Gosh," Dennis said, "and some people say higher math isn't relevant." >>>Inventor of the Mail order-Assassin<<< And *This*...is a Black Hole - BYE! |
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09-04-2006, 06:43 AM
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My Dobermann, silly! You know, the one that ate half a packet of cooking fat? -
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- "esc(x) cot(x) dx = -csc(x)!" Dennis added, and the wizard's robe caught on fire. "Gosh," Dennis said, "and some people say higher math isn't relevant." >>>Inventor of the Mail order-Assassin<<< And *This*...is a Black Hole - BYE! |
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09-04-2006, 06:47 AM
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So important you posted twice
.And yes, now I remember where I heard the name. Well, if a dog tells me to jump I respond "How high, Sir?", so I guess you win there. *adds Jaz back to the Christmas card list* |
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09-04-2006, 06:53 AM
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"The Sack of Rome in 410 may have caused a sense of profound shock in many intellectual circles of the Latin-speaking half of the Empire, but it seems to have aroused little recorded comment in the predominantly Greek East. Equally uncertain was the attitude towards the disaster and its implications of the leaders of Christian thought. From Bethlehem in a letter written in 412, the priest and ascetic teacher Jerome (331-419), a westerner and fromerly an habitué of some of the most exalted Christian aristocratic circles in Rome, showed how the twin literary heritage of Classical and Christian learning could be combined in lamenting this disaster, by quoting from the Psalms ..."
^ Modern History at its finest. And, for those who care... Collins R, Early Medieval Europe 300-1000 (Edinburgh, 1999), p61. |
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09-04-2006, 07:49 AM
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Actually, in 410AD, Postman Patrolicus carried all his letters in the Sack of Rome
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09-04-2006, 07:56 AM
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Oh, funny that you should mention that. My sister played just that very role when her theatre group performed Romulus der Große ("Romulus the Great") by Friedrich Dürrenmatt! All she had to do was running trough the scene at one point shouting "The Visigoths are coming!" She wore a yellow shirt with a black posthorn on it. Or was it a black shirt with a yellow posthorn? - 
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09-04-2006, 08:03 AM
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"So strong did Ambrose's [the Bishop of Milan] influence on the court become that he was able to intervene on the wider stage in matters concerning the Church. Thus when in 384 Quintus Aurelius Symmachus, the Prefect of the City of Rome, petitioned the emperor Valentinian II to allow the restoration to the Senate House of the Statue of Victory, which the emperor Gratian had had removed as a pagan abomination, Ambrose was able to veto the appeal without more ado. This he could do by the simple expedient of threatening the thirteeen-year-old emperor with excommunication: 'you will come to the church - and your bishop will not be there'. This threat he was actually able to put into practice in a confrontation with Theodosius I, who established his court in Milan during his stays in the West in 388-91 and 394-5."
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09-04-2006, 08:11 AM
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Ambrose was also famous for his rice pudding
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