WARNING: This is Version 1 of my old archive, so Photos will NOT work and many links will NOT work. But you can find articles by searching on the Titles. There is a lot of information in this archive. Use the SEARCH BAR at the top right. Prior to December 2012; I was a pro-Christian type of Conservative. I was unaware of the mass of Jewish lies in history, especially the lies regarding WW2 and Hitler. So in here you will find pro-Jewish and pro-Israel material. I was definitely WRONG about the Boeremag and Janusz Walus. They were for real.
Original Post Date: 2007-03-21 Time: 00:00:00 Posted By: Jan
[I was watching one of the many documentaries I taped from DSTV. I watched a fascinating documentary on Pompei and Herculanium which were destroyed by Mount Vesuvius. I was simply blown away with the level of detail on those sites and what they discovered about the Roman way of life.
The Romans had running hot and cold water and even private pools for the rich. After the fall of Rome it would be 1,500 years before anyone in Europe would see those things again.
The water engineering and aqueducts blew my mind away. What sophistication and cunning intelligence! They had no pumps so they used gravity – but in ways you can’t imagine including letting water run up into tanks and down again as a way of regulating the pressure. Their water had no taps – the water simply ran permanently into fountains, baths, etc. It would be centuries before Europe would see running water in cities again. They even had toilets in some places and enormous sewers.
However, I had to laugh because I regard many modern Hollywood actors as fools. Not all of them – but many of them. Some are complete idiots.
In the times of Shakespeare and for much of European history actors lived a hand to mouth existence. It is only now in this age that actors are paid huge sums because in ancient times they barely scraped together a living. Thanks to technology and science, actors not only entertain us, but also have the chance to show us how truly ignorant they are about politics and history. (Technology may yet get rid of them too by replacing them with virtual actors one day).
According to this National Geographic documentary, the Romans had a special category of what they called, “Deviants” in their society. Among those they categorised as “deviants” were: “Prostitutes, pimps and ACTORS”. There were others but they slip my mind. I laughed when I heard them mention actors and had to rewind to listen to it again.
The Romans were a practical people and I quite like their categorisation of ACTORS as Deviants. They’re not all that wrong! Jan]