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Nero's rotating banquet hall unveiled in Rome
AP on Yahoo ^ | 9/29/09 | Marta Falconi - ap

Posted on 09/29/2009 12:55:36 PM PDT by NormsRevenge

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1 posted on 09/29/2009 12:55:36 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
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To: NormsRevenge

OK does Omama = Nero or Caliglia?


2 posted on 09/29/2009 12:56:35 PM PDT by US Navy Vet
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To: NormsRevenge

Does it include a vomitorium?


3 posted on 09/29/2009 12:56:54 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy (Play the Race Card -- lose the game.)
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To: NormsRevenge

He didn’t rule from 37 to 68. It was 54 to 68. He was born in 37.


4 posted on 09/29/2009 12:59:04 PM PDT by Dallas59
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To: NormsRevenge
The emperor, known for his lavish and depraved lifestyle, ruled from 37 A.D. to 68 A.D.

Morons. Those are his birth and death dates. He came to power in 54, if I remember correctly.

5 posted on 09/29/2009 12:59:34 PM PDT by Sherman Logan ("The price of freedom is the toleration of imperfections." Thomas Sowell)
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To: NormsRevenge

Just in time for Obama to build one for the White House.


6 posted on 09/29/2009 12:59:45 PM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: NormsRevenge

(knock knock knock knock knock knock knock knock knock knock)

That must be the first architect now. Ah, yes. It’s Mr. Wiggin of Ironside and Malone.

MR. WIGGIN: Good morning, gentlemen. Uh, this is a twelve-storey block combining classical neo-Georgian features with all the advantages of modern design. Uhh, the tenants arrive in the entrance hall here, are carried along the corridor on a conveyor belt in extreme comfort and past murals depicting Mediterranean scenes, towards the rotating knives. The last twenty feet of the corridor are heavily soundproofed. The blood pours down these chutes and the mangled flesh slurps into these large contai—

CITY GENT #1: Excuse me.

MR. WIGGIN: Hmm?

CITY GENT #1: Uh, did you say ‘knives’?

MR. WIGGIN: Uh, rotating knives. Yes.

CITY GENT #2: Are you, uh, proposing to slaughter our tenants?

MR. WIGGIN: Does that not fit in with your plans?


7 posted on 09/29/2009 1:00:07 PM PDT by P.O.E.
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To: NormsRevenge

Thanks for the post. Interesting article.


8 posted on 09/29/2009 1:01:14 PM PDT by AEMILIUS PAULUS (It is a shame that when these people give a riot)
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To: SunkenCiv

Rotating banquet hall Ping


9 posted on 09/29/2009 1:02:14 PM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... Godspeed .. Monthly Donor Onboard)
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Nero Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus

(15 December AD 37–9 June AD 68)

10 posted on 09/29/2009 1:06:11 PM PDT by Dallas59
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To: P.O.E.

“I wouldn’t become a Mason now if you got down on your lousy stinking knees and begged me!”


11 posted on 09/29/2009 1:06:31 PM PDT by 50sDad (The Left cannot understand life is not in a test tube. Raise taxes, & jobs go away.)
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To: US Navy Vet

Don’t know about comparing Obama to Nero or Caligula but Biden reminds me of Claudius.


12 posted on 09/29/2009 1:11:32 PM PDT by Feasor13
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To: NormsRevenge

Nothing like finding the Antichrist’s dining hall.


13 posted on 09/29/2009 1:11:34 PM PDT by xjcsa (And these three remain: change, hope and government. But the greatest of these is government.)
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To: Dallas59

..eeewww, looks like some kind’a shawn penn punk.


14 posted on 09/29/2009 1:12:57 PM PDT by norraad ("What light!">Blues Brothers)
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To: Dallas59

What a great artist the world lost in him!


15 posted on 09/29/2009 1:13:52 PM PDT by swain_forkbeard (Rationality may not be sufficient, but it is necessary.)
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To: US Navy Vet

Yes!


16 posted on 09/29/2009 1:15:01 PM PDT by TXnMA ("Allah": Satan's current alias...)
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To: Sherman Logan
If I may:

(31 or) 27 B.C. - 14 A.D.Augustus

14 - 37 Tiberius

37 - 41 Caligula

41 - 54 Claudius

54 - 68 Nero

•Year of the 4 Emperors

68 - 69 Galba

17 posted on 09/29/2009 1:15:31 PM PDT by nufsed
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To: NormsRevenge
The Domus Aurea (Nero's Golden House)








18 posted on 09/29/2009 1:16:04 PM PDT by Dallas59
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To: swain_forkbeard

Lol...not really.....he was nusto.


19 posted on 09/29/2009 1:17:06 PM PDT by Dallas59
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To: NormsRevenge

Nero Claudius Ceasar Augustus, Umm, Umm, Umm
Equal Work for Equal Pay
Nero Claudius Ceasar Augustus, Umm, Umm, Umm


20 posted on 09/29/2009 1:26:23 PM PDT by centurion316
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