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I'm always in favor of sentient Proboscidea. They have a social structure, complex communication, intelligence, and the ability to manipulate tools and their environment. I think given time and a relativly isolated environment, they could develop a sentience recognizable by humans.

I posted a thread similar to this a long while ago as a DBWI Achilles not being in the war. It only got as far a the epic being named the Hektoriad, Aeneas founding a Rome analogue as a Trojan colony, and the Greek survivors under Odysseus finally settling in Carthage (with the assumption he...

I just saw that one too... I never realized how damn FAST the Apache knife fighters were :-o

Has anyone else seen The Deadliest Warrior on Spike? It's an AH fanboy's wet dream! The premise is that they take two warriors from different periods, run some performance tests on their weapons and equipment, and use a statistical analysis to determine who would win the fight. And, as a...

Well, assuming that it does happen somehow, the biggest difference I think would be in spelling. Words ending in -us would shift to -os, hard c's would be replaced by k's... "In the desert, many varieties of kaktos grow." Maybe...

Wow, all this broo-ha-ha in the KoJ makes me glad I live in Kalmar. I actually am quite familiar with the poverty issues, since I work in the office of His Majesty King Christian XII's Royal Charities, and we send a lot of kroner to Palestine. I'm glad to hear Pinochet worked something out...

We'll see a more aggressive Roman expansion into Germania. It was Varus defeat that prompted Augustus to set the Empire's border at the Rhine With Arminius defeated, the only remaining significant tribe is the Macromanni in Bohemia under King Marbod. And if I remember correctly, there be gold...

I think that was just a fabrication in the movie, to add some dramatic tension. It seemed to me a bit out of places for the minor roll Achilles had. I just re read my copy of The Hektoriad, and I was wrong in my first post... he did go to war, but left before things really got started...

The first thing I thought of when I saw this thread was the Turtledove story with this premise. I think the conclusion was that if such an animal existed, it would indeed be kosher, since pigs are not specifically outlawed, but don't chew cud, so are forbidden.

You know, that might be why the Greeks failed... lost confidence in their leader. Agamemnon couldn't control Achilles, so discipline just sort of broke down. There's a stanza in The Hektoriad about the argument between Achilles and Agamemnon being heard by the wall sentries. If the Trojans...

OOC: I was supposing that Aeneas set out on an official expedition to found a new Trojan colony, which eventually became Rome. Odysseus , with the remnant of teh Greek force tries to make it home, but ends up in North Africa. You're right, though, following the timeline of the Aeniad, Dido...

I just thinks it's kind of ironic... Aeneas leaves Troy to found a colony that eventually becomes Rome, while the remnant of the Greek force under Odysseus ends up founding Carthage. Perhaps it was the legend of their defeat at the walls of Troy that inspired them to attack Rome during the...

So I was just watching Troy, and was wondering what the siege of Troy would have been like if Achilles had been convinced to go with the Greeks. I kniw he's a minor character, and yes, the film is not the best adaptation of The Hektoriad [OOC: I know that isn't right, but i couldn't find the...

Well, to be honest, I looked up the blazon for the escutcheon of Hanover, and copy and pasted it. I'm not certain the position for the snakes is correct (i.e. in pile inverted), but it was the closest arrangement I could find. Most charges in pile are in some triangular number (3 or 6) so you...