In ancient times, Greeks and Romans gave importance to banquets by inviting their guests to experience their thermal baths.
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Ancient Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans used music lavishly in elaborate ceremonies, and we know a lot about their instruments.
The ancient Greeks and Romans understood this technique for creating the illusion of depth, but the skill was lost until Brunelleschi rediscovered it.
Its fiery colour and erratic movement across the night sky terrified the ancient Greeks and Romans, causing them to name the planet after their gods of war.
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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The square overflowed with some 250, 000 pilgrims, tourists and Romans eager to join the new pope at the start of solemn Holy Week ceremonies, which lead up to Easter, Christianity's most important day.
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).
Sassicaia and the luxury-wine boom sprinkled a pinch of fairy dust over the Maremma, a place whose outside appeal was previously confined to the tourists who swarm on the coast in July and August, and the enclaves of wealthy Florentines and Romans who keep beach houses and hunting cabins there (and keep to themselves).
As a schoolboy in Bavaria, he learned about the Greeks and the Romans, and thought he would study them when he grew up.
Later, the conquests of Alexander the Great and the Romans brought market economies to towns and cities throughout the western world.
Also, on this side, we have got Leigh Gallagher from Fortune magazine, economic Stephen Leeb, and Christine Romans, co-host of CNN's "Your Money, " my co-host on that show.
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It also has allowed Douglas to reconnect with many of the horsemen who he once rode for, including Sheik Mohammad, whom he met Thursday night as well as trainers including Ward and Dale Romans.
In the guise of a book about translation this is a richly original cultural history, a journey from the days when the Greeks simply ignored other languages and the Romans forced all subject peoples to learn Latin, to Google Translate.
The mysterious Nuraghic people came around 1800 BC, followed by the Phoenicians and Carthaginians, Romans, Germanic Vandals, Byzantines, Pisans, Genoese and Spanish, before the island was incorporated into a unified Italy in 1861.
As Mr Goodman lists the main features of Rome and Jerusalem (politics, ideology, law), he finds himself observing repeatedly that Romans and Jews reacted to Hellenism in different ways.
BC, and became Gallo-Romans as they adopted Roman ways and Latin as their language.
My good friend and colleague Christine Romans, I think David put it very interestingly.
With his recent good form, Douglas said Romans and others have encouraged him to start scouting horses for them.
It has been affected by Africa, very strongly by the Arab world, the Normans, the Romans and the Greeks.
But the ancient Thracian tribes who once ruled here loved the area, settling sites more than 2, 000 years ago that were later built up by conquering Romans and Byzantines.
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.
"I love the folklore and Celtic mythology of Scotland and also the time in history when the Romans were invading and building walls, " he said.
The Pictish and Gaelic Celts of Scotland and Ireland were too much trouble for even the Romans to manage and so the extremities of the British Isles developed differently from England.
Because of its westerly position and mountainous nature, Anglo-Saxons who moved into central and eastern England after the Romans left did not come that far west, and neither did the Vikings who arrived in around 900AD.
The Industrial Revolution happened in Europe with no scientific knowledge beyond what the Greeks, Romans, Chinese and Persians knew in ancient times.
The waters were then enjoyed by the Celts, Romans, Saxons and Georgians and are the constant thread throughout the history of Bath.
Ancient Romans, Indians and Chinese sealed meats, nuts and fruit in it.
Describing the find as "hugely significant" experts said the man had died around the time of the collapse of Roman Londinium in the City and the decision by the Romans to abandon Britain.
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In the United States, a Catholic woman might attend a Roman parish, work for Catholic Charities, serve as an independent Catholic priest, officiate weddings for divorced Romans on weekends and do Buddhist meditation every morning, too.
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