tags: Roman Empire

2000

November

2000 Nov 7

the fall of the Roman Empire

It wasn’t the orgies and the vomitoria

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2006

April

2006 Apr 10

random thought

OK, I admit it. I’m weird. But I’ve been reading up on the Roman Empire lately for no good reason. (Maybe it’s because it’s Holy Week, and I’ve been thinking about Rome and it’s relationship to Christianity, specifically Roman Catholicism.) And you know that saying, “All roads lead to Rome”? Well, with all the driving I’ve done this week going home and back, I’ve realized that all freeways lead to Los Angeles.

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2016

March

2016 Mar 22

Lead Poisoning in Rome and in Flint, Michigan

While the reasons for the Fall of the Western Roman Empire are quite complex, a popular theory that has since been disproven suggested that high lead levels in the water supply due to the use of lead pipes was a contributing factor.

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May

2016 May 16

Etruscans

OMG. So the Etruscans were the B Ark of Lydia (a kingdom that encompassed Western Turkey)?!?!

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