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The Colosseum and Vespasian's Rome - Daily Telegraph

The last words of the Emperor Vespasian – the eighth emperor ... In fact Romans knew him as the "bald Nero". Vespasian himself wanted to show how devoted he was to the Roman people. So he sponsored the Colosseum – one of the greatest venues for popular ...

Picture looks bleak for Italy’s Mediaset - Financial Times

Nero, the ancient Roman emperor, realised his number was up when he dreamt of being suffocated by a swarm of flying ants. For Silvio Berlusconi, the billionaire Italian politician, and his family-controlled Mediaset company, the omens are likewise tilted ...

Listen: A Jon Langford Glam Track from Richard Byrne’s Play Nero/Pseudo - Washington City Paper

about a man who successfully impersonated the Roman emperor Nero Claudius Caesar in Greece the year after Nero's death. Byrne blogged last week about how he'd come to decide that glam rock would be the most suitable musical style for his play ...

Herbal Healer: What is Saigon cinnamon? - NWI.com

A highly valued, hard-to-get spice in antiquity, a large quantity of cinnamon was burned at the funeral of the wife of the Roman emperor Nero. ABOUT THE HERB Saigon cinnamon is an evergreen tree native to mainland Southeast Asia. Named after Vietnam’s ...

Carl Barat set to star as Nero in Paris opera - NME

Carl Barat, former co-frontman with The Libertines, is set to star as Roman emperor Nero in an opera in Paris this summer. Barat will play Nero in a production of Pop'pea, an opera which has been inspired by Monteverdi's 17th century work The Coronation of Poppea.

Food appeal and sex appeal: Are they the same? - Examiner

The origins of ice cream are open to speculations.  Some historians claim that its origins can be traced back to the 4th century B.C. when the Roman emperor Nero ordered ice to be brought from the mountains and combined with fruit toppings. 

Nalzaro: Same-sex marriage, past and present - Sun Star

The first historical mention of same-sex marriage was during the early Roman Empire. Emperor Nero was reported to have engaged in a marriage ceremony with one of his male slaves. Emperor Elagabalus “married” a Carian slave named Hicrocles. It should be ...

Dictathletes: When it comes to sports, dictators have that competitive edge - Washington Times

Scouting report: According to Roman historians, the famously depraved emperor-cum-fiddling first responder enjoyed ... Shining moment (II): Hardly content to watch from the stands, Nero fancied himself an actual chariot racer.

HORSE SENSE - DAILY KOS

This industry had always been so strong that two thousand years ago the Roman emperor Nero instituted the “Vectigal Urinae”, the urine tax, which proved so profitable that his successor, Vespasian, was quoted as saying “Pecunia non olet ...

Jamesville Balloonfest will be June 8, 9, 10 this summer - Worldnews.com

Agrippina and Caligula's brother, Nero, were banished in AD 29 on charges of treason ... loosely based on the real life Roman emperor. The 2011 videogame The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim contains lore of an emperor that seems to be heavily based upon Caligula.