Roman Ruler's Head Found in Sewer

Seoul Times ^ | October 31, 2005

[ml/nj]

Whew! I thought you were talking about the winner of this year's Haskell.

ML/NJ

[ZULU]

Constantine didn't Christianize the Roman Empire.

He Romanized the Christian Church.

[Tijeras_Slim]

60cm (2ft) head

My low flow toilet will barely handle the occasional deceased goldfish.

[conservaDave]

They Must Be Giants Bump (HA HA)

[joebuck]

"Although most of his subjects remained pagans, he is credited with helping to establish Europe's Christian roots by proclaiming religious freedom."

Uhhhh, this is incorret. Constantine converted to Christianity and declared it the official church and religion of Rome. This essentially created the Roman Catholic Church. Due to dissention between the Christian Church in Constantinople and in Rome the church ultimately split into the Eastern Orthodox and Roman Catholic churchs.

[RichInOC]

Whew. I thought this was going to be about a mob hit.

[zeebee]

Coin from the era, 337-340 AD

[wardaddy]

Berlusconni?

damn...he was a good guy.

is this in retaliation for the Alito nomination?

I see Ted Kennedy in this....it is water...sort of

[CatholicLady]

"Due to dissention between the Christian Church in Constantinople and in Rome the church ultimately split into the Eastern Orthodox and Roman Catholic churchs."

There were several incidents leading up to the Great Schism as it is sometimes called. The rivalry and hatred arose from several causes. Undoubtedly the first, the root of all the quarrel, was the advance of the See of Constantinople. We have seen that four Eastern patriarchates were to some extent contrasted to the one great Western unity. Had there remained four such unities in the East, nothing further need have followed. What accentuated the contrast and made it a rivalry was the gradual assumption of authority over the other three by the patriarch of Constantinople. It was Constantinople that bound together the East into one body, uniting it against the West. It was the persistent attempt of the emperor's patriarch to become a kind of Eastern pope, as nearly as possible equal to his Western prototype, that was the real source of all the trouble

[WIladyconservative]

The white marble head was confirmed as a portrait of Constantine by experts

That picture is NOT a WHITE marble head . . . .ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww.

[SunkenCiv]

will add, but not ping, because...

Emperor's Decline And Fall (Constantine)
Times (UK) | 7-29-2005 | Richard Owen
Posted on 07/29/2005 3:17:43 PM PDT by blam
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1453445/posts

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks uglybiker.

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[Rocky]

So this is when people started using the expression: "I gotta go to the head."