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Wednesday, January 27, 2010
Wednesday, January 20, 2010
Underwear Panty Peeking
Gladiators: blood as a matter of state

"Since we can not sell their votes, he, who once led the world its power, its logo and its legions, has become a degenerate people and only wish, with a greedy anxiety, two things: bread and games. "
Because of their obvious similarities, it is extremely easy to identify some of the phenomena that proliferated in ancient Rome with some very current. In the case of the munera or combat between gladiators, it was competitive events taking place in large venues with capacity for thousands of spectators, like the modern stadium, featuring a true idol of the masses which aroused the admiration of men, the emulation youth and the desire of women. Been depicted in countless everyday items like oil lamps or perfume bottles, a precursor of the current merchandising and rough in many street graffiti. His exploits were recounted by poets of the stature of the Horace, and even emperors megalomaniacs like Caligula or Commodus, tried to imitate them in the sand ...
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Article written for Armatura, academia weapons.
Because of their obvious similarities, it is extremely easy to identify some of the phenomena that proliferated in ancient Rome with some very current. In the case of the munera or combat between gladiators, it was competitive events taking place in large venues with capacity for thousands of spectators, like the modern stadium, featuring a true idol of the masses which aroused the admiration of men, the emulation youth and the desire of women. Been depicted in countless everyday items like oil lamps or perfume bottles, a precursor of the current merchandising and rough in many street graffiti. His exploits were recounted by poets of the stature of the Horace, and even emperors megalomaniacs like Caligula or Commodus, tried to imitate them in the sand ...
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Article written for Armatura, academia weapons.
Tuesday, January 19, 2010
Dresses Fot 13 Yr Old
Wrestling, boxing pankration and Democracy Internet
"We train young people in sport is not just for the love of competition, allowing them to get awards, though certainly only a few will achieve that end", but to achieve something more important Citywide and young people themselves, for another competition which is undoubtedly the principal a good citizen, and whose crown is not pine, olive or celery, but a crown that brings happiness to the whole community. Which is freedom for every individual and the state in general as well as wealth and glory ... "
Anacharsis In his work, a dialog Luciano allegedly spent in the year 590 BC, when a Scythian philosopher, horrified at the brutal spectacle of two Greek wrestlers competing in the arena, said the great Athenian lawgiver Solon who, in their land, such practices have been punishable by law. Solon's answer explains the paradox that exists within a society that severely punish all acts of violence among its citizens, but at the same time various forms of unarmed combat had enormous popularity. And, although there are hoplomaquias, duels "At first blood" with armament or infant's own hoplite heavy Greek combat sports were the following: the fight itself, the pankration and boxing ...

Anacharsis In his work, a dialog Luciano allegedly spent in the year 590 BC, when a Scythian philosopher, horrified at the brutal spectacle of two Greek wrestlers competing in the arena, said the great Athenian lawgiver Solon who, in their land, such practices have been punishable by law. Solon's answer explains the paradox that exists within a society that severely punish all acts of violence among its citizens, but at the same time various forms of unarmed combat had enormous popularity. And, although there are hoplomaquias, duels "At first blood" with armament or infant's own hoplite heavy Greek combat sports were the following: the fight itself, the pankration and boxing ...
(Article I wrote for the magazine report, posted on the site of Armatura, Academy of weapons. )
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