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swim the Thames — verb To convert from Roman Catholic to Anglicanism. Ant: swim the Tiber … Wiktionary
Battle of the Milvian Bridge — Infobox Military Conflict conflict=Battle of Milvian Bridge partof=the Wars of Constantine I caption= Dream of Constantine I and battle of the Milvian Bridge date=October 28, 312 place=Ponte Milvio, Rome result=Defeat of Maxentius… … Wikipedia
Jupiter's Darling (film) — Jupiter s Darling (1955) is an MGM film, starring Esther Williams. In this film, Williams (playing the Roman woman Amytis) helps Hannibal swim the Tiber River to take a closer look at Rome s fortifications. Amytis s boring fiance, Fabius, was… … Wikipedia
Pons Sublicius — The earliest known bridge of ancient Rome, Italy, the Pons Sublicius, spanned the Tiber River near the Forum Boarium ( cattle forum ) downstream from the Tiber island, near the foot of the Aventine Hill. According to tradition, its construction… … Wikipedia
Culture in Rome — The Pantheon. The Culture of Rome refers to the arts, high culture, language, religion, politics, cuisine, architecture and fashion in Rome, Italy. Rome was supposedly founded in 753 BC and eversince has been the capital of the Roman Empire, one… … Wikipedia
Ancient Rome — For the modern day city, see Rome. For Other uses, see Ancient Rome (disambiguation). The Roman Forum, the political, economic, cultural, and religious center of the city during the Republic and later Empire, now lies in ruins in modern day Rome … Wikipedia
commercial fishing — Introduction the taking of fish and other seafood and resources from oceans, rivers, and lakes for the purpose of marketing them. Fishing is one of the oldest employments of humankind. Ancient heaps of discarded mollusk shells (shell… … Universalium
Calendar of 2002 — ▪ 2003 January I will not wait on events while dangers gather. I will not stand by as peril draws closer and closer. The United States of America will not permit the world s most dangerous regimes to threaten us with the world s most destructive… … Universalium
Eugenics — is the self direction of human evolution : Logo from the Second International Eugenics Conference, 1921, depicting Eugenics as a tree which unites a variety of different fields.[1] Eugenics is the applied science or the bio social movement which… … Wikipedia
Horatius Cocles — ▪ Roman legendary hero Roman hero traditionally of the late 6th century BC but perhaps legendary, who first with two companions and finally alone defended the Sublician bridge (in Rome) against Lars Porsena and the entire Etruscan army,… … Universalium
