Our PCs sit in as proud a position in our homes as the Romans placed their household altars.
If these people wish to live in our country, then they should adopt the principle of 'doing in Rome as the Romans do'.
As their empire expanded, the Romans put up lighthouses as quickly as they expanded trading routes.
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The "urbs"- as Romans would call the physical form of the city - was nothing other than the result of the "civitas", the community of the citizen.
Founded by the Romans as a thermal spa, Bath became an important centre of the wool industry in the Middle Ages.
The U.S. does, however, have crucial advantages: We know where the present road leads, whereas the Romans did not, and as a democracy we still have the chance to change our fate.
The most important part of the morning is the coffee, and Romans are passionately divided as to who makes the best cup: Sant Eustachio (Piazza Sant'Eustachio, steps behind the Pantheon) or Tazza d'Oro (Via degli Orfani, a few feet in front of the Pantheon).
Rather as Romans aspired to Greek virtues, the new Barbarian aristocracy aspired to live like Romans.
The Ancient Greeks and Romans carried red flags in battles, and as late as the 1800s soldiers wore red in the field as a way to intimidate their enemies.
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Descriptively titled Part of a Large Magnificent Port Used by the Ancient Romans, the print seemed unusually cramped and illogical in perspective, Hebborn claimed, as if Piranesi had tried to fit his scene on too small a copper plate.
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Before the Romans invaded, the native people there were known as Dacians.
As a schoolboy in Bavaria, he learned about the Greeks and the Romans, and thought he would study them when he grew up.
"My favorite jockey of all time, " said Romans, who has Dullahan in the Dubai World Cup, as he chatted with Douglas.
The origins of the pencil date to the ancient Romans, who used to write with a device known as a stylus--a metal stick, usually lead, which was used to scratch words onto papyrus.
For nearly 5, 000 years, humans have taken a shine to gold, and it has been used as a medium of exchange by Egyptians, Romans, and governments and individuals into the modern era.
It is said that the Romans often cut down a fir tree to keep in their houses during the sparse winter months as a form of appeasement to the goddess Ceres (originally Demeter, Greek goddess of the hearth).
In July and August, the population density and traffic becomes so thick with vacationing Romans that one can push their car across the capital, Portoferraio, at about the same pace as driving it.
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