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1. Images Of Jesus The Christ Stations Of The Cross Pictures These are the pictures of the crucifixion of Christ sculptured from metal by a man near Amarillo, Texas. The crosses are made of metal also. The man did this out of the kindness of his heart, and someone donated the land on which to erect them.
2. What is True Understanding in the Bible? "Let There Be Light" To understand Judeo/Christian Religion and the Bible, one must understand the language of that day, or have a translation from someone who totally understood all the aspects of the spoken word in those times. Someone or those who know what the Idioms...
3. Emperor Nero Nero Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus (December 15, AD 37 - June 9, 68), born Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus, also called Nero Claudius Caesar Germanicus, was the fifth and final Roman Emperor of the Julio-Claudian dynasty. Nero was adopted by his g...
4. Saint Sebastian Saint Sebastian has been depicted in numerous paintings and sculptures throughout the centuries and the world.  In the majority of them, he's depicted as nude, tied to a pole and riddled with arrows.  Why such a popular image?  Check h...
5. Paperweights Who can resist paperweights? Made by master craftsmen, they are objects of supreme beauty. Is it any wonder that they were hardly ever used for such a mundane task as securing loose papers? In the 19th century, educated ladies and gentlemen sat at th...
6. The Art Of Bathing After a stressful day nothing beats a long, languishing, soak in a warm tub. For thousands of years mankind has sought solace in the water, adding fragrant herbs, oils and salts to lift the spirits, improve the health, cleanse the skin, treat illness...
7. Biography Julius Caesar Gaius Julius Caesar (13 July 100 - 15 March 44 BCE). Julius Caesar, Emperor, military leader, roman statesman, general and author, famous for the conquest of Gaul (modern France and Belgium). He changed the Roman republic into a monarchy and a truly M...
8. What is the Travian Money Cheat? Warning: Beware of Travian money cheats, they can harm your system! I had no idea what the Travian money cheat was until just today. In fact, I had no idea what Travian even was. Well my friends, Travian is a very fun online game that was developed...
9. Gladiator : A movie of Epic Proportions When the Gladiator was first released in 2000 it was a breathtaking display of action and adventure. One of the first movies to begin to use computers to create truly epic and powerful scenes, Gladiator is a must see for any epic movie fan.
10. How to Play the Roman Game of Rota, Ancient Tic-Tac-Toe The ancient Roman game of Rota is easy to learn, quick to play. It makes a great kid's game that teaches planning ahead and the points of the compass. We don't actually know the Roman name for it, but scholars call it Rota, Latin for "whe...
11. Ovid: Metamorphoses and Mythology Ovid's Metamorphoses is one of the most important sources for our knowledge of Greek and Roman mythology. Ovid based his work on earlier Greek poetry, but much of that Greek poetry has been lost. Ovid is often our only source for these ancient storie...
12. Horace Known in the English-speaking world as Horace, he was the leading Roman lyric poet & satirist during the time of Augustus. Horace, (8 December 65 BC - 27 November 8 BC), was the son of a freedman, but himself born free.
13. Salome Costume Designs This is a collection of design work I produced in my final year of my costume degree based on origami. The designs are for the play Salome by Oscar Wilde. For this project I had to produce a range of initial designs for each character, one finished...
14. Jesus - The Bread and The Wine The breaking of bread and drinking of wine was introduced to the apostles by Jesus. Christians worldwide still follow this basic teaching of Jesus by celebrating what is commonly known as "breaking bread", "Communion" or "Eucharist" However if you...
15. Fran Saleski Finzgar Fran Saleski Finzgar, rojen 9. februarja 1871, umrl 2. junija 1962, je slovenski pisatelj, dramatik, prevajalec in duhovnik. Rodil se je v vasi Doslovce na Gorenjskem. Solal se je v Radovljici in Ljubljani. V duhovnika je bil posvecen leta 1894 in je...
16. The History of Ancient Plumbing Latin word for lead is plumbum, from which we derive the words plumber and plumbing. Plumbing refers to the specific water and sewage devices and systems of a building, while water and sewage systems refer to the systems that supply a group of buildi...
17. Our Lady Of Guadalupe Painted by Alcira Fernandez. Our Lady of Guadalupe or the Virgin of Guadalupe is a Roman Catholic icon and Mexico's most popular image: Nobel laureate Octavio Paz is quoted as saying that "the Mexican people, after more than two centuries of experim...
18. The Ides Of March The Ides Of March. Is March 15th really an evil day to beware? Ummm...No. The soothsayer's warning to Julius Caesar, "Beware the Ides of March," has forever embedded March 15th into our minds as a day to be dreaded. Dark and evil. But in Rome. and b...
19. Who and What are Druids Druids who the were and what they did. Some points of history about the druid system. Connections to Egypt and the masonic temple.
20. The Year of Acheron From the world of the Dark-Hunters comes the most anticipated book to date... Eleven thousand years ago a god was born. Cursed into the body of a human, Acheron endured a lifetime of hatred. His human death unleashed an unspeakable horror that almos...