35 Burst results for "Roman Empire"
The Dinesh D'Souza Podcast
Modern-Day Christian Persecution With Dr. Thomas Williams
"We were talking doctor Williams about ancient prosecution. Let's come to persecution today, which a lot of people, as you say, don't seem to recognize or to acknowledge maybe not even some people in the churches, and yet you say it's going on all over the world. I'm quoting you. It has now reached unprecedented levels. You talk about possibly as many as 340 million Christians facing not just for execution, but in the words of a recent report quote high levels of persecution. So let's start outside the west and identify some of the main trouble spots and as well as some of the main perpetrators of anti Christian persecution. Who are they? Well, this is taking place all around the world, but some of the hotspots are in Africa, Asia and the Middle East. I would say, because you can name a few also in South America and other places, but the main core of these lands are these. So you have situations of atheistic communism. So you have North Korea where it's illegal to be Christian. It's illegal to possess a Bible. It's illegal to speak to your neighbor about Jesus. It's illegal to pray in any way that is discernible public. And you can be thrown at you. You can even be killed for that. And there are so many cases. It's just, it happens all the time. You have the case of China where at least ostensibly there's some degree of the discrete, but only kind of like in the case of the Roman Empire, where you do not in any way contradict the basic fundamental teachings of the Marxist socialism that is the undergirding of that society. And you can only do it in such a way as completely controlled by the government
Mark Levin
Special Counsel Subpoenas Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump
"Know Ivanka And Jared Ivanka Trump Jared Kushner They've been subpoenaed to testify In front of the rogue phony special counsel in Washington D.C. Jack the Ripper Smith Now Jack the Ripper Smith is subpoenaing anything that moves including things that don't move actually Because he's not interested in doing justice he's trying to seek and destroy and I've explained about this man's past in the recent past I was overturned by the Supreme Court in an 8 to zero ruling because he was way over zealous in his prosecution of bob McDonald the former Republican governor of Virginia I explained how he lost a jury trial In the John Edwards case with his girlfriend or pregnancy how they used money raised by donors to put her up in an apartment and take care of her and this guy Jack the Ripper Smith concluded that that violated the election laws and of course Edwards one of his defenses was I relied on the election law people Giving me advice the experts the lawyers And so Jack the Ripper lost that one too So they sent him off to The Hague They figured he'd be more comfortable hanging around genocidal mass murders And prosecuting them So the attorney general of the United States meritless Garland he decided that would be the perfect guide who the point is a special counsel to go after Trump And now what the guy's done He's tried to violate a privilege that goes back to at least the Roman Empire probably before the attorney client privilege Hence due process under our Bill of rights and our constitutional system
The Trish Regan Show
We Are at Crossroads With Eerie Similarities to the Fall of Rome
"At a crossroads that has some eerie, similarities to the fall of the Roman Empire. And I'm not getting overdramatic here, because while many people will say, okay, there were military concerns, there were political factors. Sure, there was all of that. But you know, ultimately, it was the economy and these economic issues that really brought down the Roman Empire, including none other than inflation. That was a huge problem, including all this government overspending, another huge problem, and a declining agricultural economy. You see where I'm going with this. I mean, think about our government overspending to the tune of $31 trillion. Think about our inflation that is absolutely massive. I want to share with you from the CBO. They now have a prediction that interest payments are the fastest growing. Actually, this is a non prediction. This is actually reality. Interest payments are now the fastest growing major expenditure in the budget.
The Charlie Kirk Show
America Is a Country of Christian Plurality
"That listen to our podcast with regularity, you know that I have been bashing against gnosticism and we don't have to go too far too deep down that route. However, it does tie into our conversation, Chris, you wanted to pick this up about glory be to God to do big things in the physical world that glorify God. Yeah, I think this is actually super important. Just to sort of recap, you know, one of the things that you always and every place united civilizations is some common religion. Now, probably not with your listeners, but for some people, when they hear that it makes a Mitchell a little bit because they think it means intolerance or grams or something like that. Obviously that's happened in the past, but you think about places like in a Rome. Like the Roman Empire or something, your room was actually pretty tolerant. But particularly by ancient standards. Correct. Yes, were the intolerant of Christians. Sometimes is the answer. It depends on who the emperor depended on who the emperor was, but Christianity within the Roman world was kind of unique because Rome's typical standpoint with barn gods was just incorporate them. The problem with Christianity for Rome was like Christ can't be incorporated into the Pantheon. Yes. He did wind up as a turns out taking over. Constantine, I think, eventually allowed to take over everything. Right. But you think about what has motivated people to do these big projects and hold these civilizations together. We talked about Egypt, and we talked about the sumerians, and we talked about obviously Christians. Any place in the planet, like there's these massive buddhas built all over Asia, which are these big projects. Mind-blowing. Mind-blowing. Yeah. But the point I think that you were driving it is really important is that America is a country that has a Christian heritage. It has a Christian if you sort of take all Christians regardless of denomination as a single block as a country that has a Christian plurality.
Dennis Prager Podcasts
The Emperor Has No Clothes
"The school reportedly stripped the word from use due to alleged ties to anti black and anti immigrant rhetoric. Do you know when I read this, I still was thinking, I don't follow. I really didn't follow. According to the email sent by the practical education department to the campus community faculty staff and students, now to give you an idea of what I mean by the sheep like behavior of faculty and students, virtually none may be not one will raise an objection to this. This is the naked emperor the emperor is naked and everybody is speaking about how beautiful his clothes are. The school informed that the word practicum would be used instead. To ensure its use of inclusive language and practice. Practicum, common commonly used commonly used. Now, I assume it's a Latin. Right? But why isn't that racist? The latins were white. The Roman Empire and they had slaves. Oh my God, in vast numbers.
Based On a True Story
"roman empire" Discussed on Based On a True Story
"I just 15.9. Runway forwards available if you want to make left traffic run rate four. It is a New Jersey, maybe teeter rail? Okay. If you're right side, it's peterborough airport. Do you want to try to go to peterborough? Yes. Actually, Laguardia park guy emergency inbound. Hey guys. It's 1529 over the George Washington bridge once go to airport right now. Did you need assistance? Yes, yes. It was a bird strike. Can I get a mint for runway one? What do I want? That's good. Can I get 15, 29, turn my two 8 zero, you can land right away. We can't do it. Okay, which one way would you like at teterboro? We're going to be nice. I'm
Based On a True Story
"roman empire" Discussed on Based On a True Story
"January 13th, 1968, Folsom, California. We're at a prison. As the camera shows us different locations around the prison, we can see they are uniform guards like you would expect, but no prisoners inside. Even inside the prison, we can see empty cells, no prisoners. The muffled sound of music can be heard throughout the halls of the prison known. It's kind of odd. Then we can see it. All the prisoners are in a single room cheering, clapping, and stopping their feet to the beat. The musicians on stage are playing the same riff over and over. As the musicians are playing, the guitarist looks rather nervously at a door behind the stage. Behind the door, Joaquin Phoenix is version of Johnny Cash seems deep in thought. After this, the movie jumps to Arkansas in 1944, but later in the movie, we see more of the same event. And we see Joaquin Phoenix's version of Johnny Cash chat with the prisoners a little bit before singing his song called cocaine blues. That event really did happen this week in history. But the real Johnny Cash did not start off the performance with cocaine blues. Johnny Cash actually played two life performances at Folsom state prison on January 13th, 1968. And both performances started off with his song named after the prison called Folsom prison blues. The first performance started at 9 40 a.m., while the second was at 1240 p.m.. Part of the reason for two performances was because just like we see mentioned in the movie, they were recorded live. And cash wasn't really sure how that would turn out. So the second performance was kind of a backup of sorts. Except that kind of backfired a little bit because after playing 19 songs in the first concert, the musicians were pretty tired, understandably. But they went right back to work playing another 16 songs, 17 if you caught the repeat of graystone chapel at the end of the 1240 p.m. performance. Something else the movie doesn't really focus on is that Johnny Cash was not the only one to perform at the prison that day. Carl Perkins and the statler brothers were also there, each performing a song or two before Johnny Cash took stage. If you want to watch a depiction of the event this week, check out 2005s walk the line. It opens with the prison performance, but then we actually see more of it in the movie later on about the two hour mark. January 15th, 2009, New York City. There's a word that you don't want to hear coming from the cockpit of an airplane. Mayday, mayday. Tom Hanks version of captain chesley Sullenberger exclaims this. And he goes on to explain over the radio to air traffic control that they've lost both engines. Aaron Eckhart's version of first officer Jeff skiles is pushing controls, but he says there's no relight on engine one or two. From outside, we can see the plane they're flying is a huge passenger jet. Sully tells the controller he thinks they can get back to Laguardia talking about one of the airports in New York City. Again, seeing the plane from the outside, we can see the engines seem to be spitting out fire in an inconsistent manner. The plane is slowly losing altitude. As the plane turns, the camera angle gives us a better look at the ground and the massive city sprawling out beneath the plane. Who knows how many people will be killed should the huge plane crash into the heavily populated city. Solely in scales are piloting what essentially amounts to being glider at this point. And the buildings of New York City are dangerously close. Smoke streams from the engines as the airplane passes by buildings that are tall enough to be hit. Inside, passengers are screaming, they're understandably terrified of what they're going through. It's getting rough. They're bouncing around as the plane's altitude creeps lower and lower. Solly mutters, Lori, I love you, under his breath, talking about his wife who's played by Laura Linney in the movie. Finally, the plane crashes into the side of a building in a huge ball of flame. Just then, Sully wakes up in a cold sweat. It was all a dream. This is how the 2016 movie simply called Sully opens with a dream version of a very real event that took place this week in history. And the real event did not end the way we see in the opening of the movie. But the movie also admits to this being a dream. And since it pulled that little bait and switch, I thought I would do the same thing here. In the true story, Chelsea Sullenberger and Jeff skiles were piloting an Airbus a three 20 aircraft. It was U.S. airways flight 5 49 going from New York's Laguardia airport bound for Charlotte, North Carolina, and then on to Seattle, Washington. At three 24 56 p.m., the flight was cleared for takeoff. Less than a minute later, it was airborne. Everything seemed normal. It was a clear day with some scattered clouds in the sky. Then at three 27 and 11 seconds p.m., while the plane was still climbing from its initial takeoff, it hit a flock of Canada geese. At this point, they had traveled 4.5 miles in less than 3000 feet above the ground, passengers reported hearing loud bangs, fire flying out of the engines, and then silence. The air smelled of fuel. Because the plane was climbing at the moment of impact, it kept going up for a little while. But it only went just above 3000 feet before it started to go back down. Sully took the controls while skiles tried to restart the engines, but to no avail. At three 27 p.m., in 33 seconds, Sully radioed in the May Day and said he was going to try to go back to Laguardia. He was told he had permission to return to runway 31. Meanwhile, Laguardia halted all other flights to clear the air for flight 1549. Moments later saw he realized he wasn't going to make it back to Laguardia and asked for other options. There was an airport in New Jersey nearby in air traffic control gave them permission to land there. That was the plan for a fleeting moment until Sully realized they couldn't do that either. He told air traffic control, they're going to land in the Hudson River. Passing less than a thousand feet above the George Washington bridge that spans the Hudson Sully told everyone on board to brace for impact. 90 seconds later, at three 31 p.m. on January 15th, 2019, flight 1549 splashed down in a hard landing. Everyone on board survived. And since the FAA has released the cockpit recording to the public domain, here is the actual recording from that day where you'll hear conversations between air traffic control and flight 1549 with the call sign cactus 1549. This is cactus 1539 hit first through phosphorus returning back towards Laguardia. Okay. You need to return a little bit. You turn left heading up a two two there. Sorry, stop you to park, who's got a emergency returning? It's 1529. Bird strike, you lost all engine. He lost the thrust in the engine to turning immediately. Check this 15, 29, which engines he lost thrust in both ends as he said. Got it. I guess 15, 29. We can get it for you. Do you want to try to land wondering one three? Well, we may end up in. July 2020 journal of zero sum there. Hi, guys. It's 15.9. It's going to be less traffic to runway three one. Okay. What do you need to land?
Based On a True Story
"roman empire" Discussed on Based On a True Story
"The military uniform of the Roman Empire. Walking through the Woods with heavy steps, he makes his way to the edge of the river. He slows to a stop, looking at the water with a concerned look on his face. The river is a small one, and not deep enough to cover the numerous rocks that can be seen poking up out of the water. It's the kind of small river or stream you can easily cross on foot. But he doesn't cross it. Instead, he paces up and down the river with that same concerned look on his face. As he stares at the water. As he nears the camera, we can see him clenching his jaw as the gears turn inside his mind. In the next shot, we see a line of Roman soldiers. Most of them are on foot, although there are some cavalry in there as well. In the foreground is the river. The soldiers aren't moving. They're just standing there in front of the river. The man from earlier is on a horse now. He looks back at the soldiers, then slowly. He coaxes his horse forward across the river. The soldiers falling behind their leader, crossing the river as well. This was from the Netflix miniseries simply called Roman Empire. And what it's depicting really did happen. The man leading his army across the river as Julius Caesar, who's played by ditch Davy in the series. The name of the river is the Rubicon, and while it's true that it wasn't a physically difficult river to cross as far as the terrain is concerned, it was a huge deal for Caesar to cross the river with his army. You see, the Rubicon river was the border between Rome and Gaul as a quick little side note. Gull was a region in Western Europe that covered lands in modern day France, Switzerland, Belgium, Luxembourg, Germany, and some parts of Italy. For years prior to the event that happened this week in history, Caesar had been conquering Gaul for the Romans, something that earned him a lot of fame in Rome. It also earned him some enemies. They didn't like how popular Caesar was getting. One of them in particular was Pompeii, who convinced the Roman Senate to order Caesar to return to Rome where they wanted him to resign his post. There's some debate over exactly what the Senate wanted to do to Caesar because their plans never came to fruition. Caesar did return to Rome, but the reason crossing the Rubicon river with his army was such a big deal was because it meant Caesar was entering Roman lands at the head of his army. According to Roman law, only elected magistrates could lead their armies in Roman territory, breaking this law would immediately brand both the leader and the soldiers as outlaws and condemn them to death. So normally a Roman general would disband their army before entering Roman lands. When Caesar crossed the Rubicon at the head of his army, he was basically declaring war on Rome. It was a point of no return. This act is seen as the start of a Civil War that ended up with Pompey fleeing Rome and Julius Caesar as dictator of Rome. Probably the biggest thing to mention about the accuracy of how the series depicts the crossing of the Rubicon is to simply point out that we just don't know a lot about what the actual event looked like. For example, I know I started this segment by saying it happened on January 10th, but we don't even know if that is accurate for sure. Most historians say probably happened on the night of January 10th or the early morning hours of January 11th, but that's more of an educated guess than unknown fact though. If you want to watch the event this week, check out season two episode three of Netflix's docudrama series simply called Roman Empire. Crossing the river itself is about the 20 minute mark of that episode. Although the entire episode is called crossing the Rubicon and it does a great job of setting up that event. Before we go further, today's episode is sponsored in part by Omaha steaks. So let's take a moment to hear about them. Happy 2023. I hope your holidays were wonderful. 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Gun Talk
"roman empire" Discussed on Gun Talk
"But you say, you know, would you do that? Okay, here's a philosophical question for you. Switch and just slightly, but staying with the Ukraine thing. Opposed it to somebody this week. I said, if it was set up where he said, okay, you could kill president Putin. Kill Vladimir Putin. But the deal was, when you did, then you would immediately be killed. Would you take that deal? What takes his place though? Oh, no. Is it better or worse? Well, I think my thought was, yeah, I would take that deal. Because I feel like doing that would save thousands of lives. More than just a year. Tens of thousands, maybe a million. Who knows? In Ukraine. Because I really think this all come out of Putin. Now, with the next diabetes better, I don't know. But nobody really from Stalin to Putin, we didn't have anybody doing what he's doing, really. Right. Well, supposedly there's a lot of unrest with his ogle arcs there. The people that we are the ugly ugly arcs. They don't like that. I'm stealing that one. The ugly arcs. I like it. Their assets are being frozen by the U.S. and they're all assets. Frozen my assets off. That's right. And I guess they're being bound up and they're going, hey, Vlad, we got buddies for a while here, and you've made us a lot of money through the energy industry, but we're basically locked up right now. Yeah, can you knock it off over there, guy? We're not really getting anywhere anyway. So as far as your kill Putin idea, I wouldn't be surprised if that happened from within. That has been suggested as a possibility and talk about a guy that's got to have some serious security, but then again, said all deal of, do you trust your security? Right. Anybody. Historically, every man has his price, you know? Well, isn't there a buck 99? Just for the record, if anybody's curious. Well, or a thousand primers. I wasn't embarrassed that it already kind of hinted. It might be a good idea. Lindsey Graham voted that idea. And he was kind of shouted down. People Because, you know, it's good like drive Vlad, crazier than he is. Right. It's not like nobody in Russia has nobody enriched his thought of it until Lindsey said it. Right. Yeah, exactly. No kidding. Hey, great idea. I never thought of that. I care about making a special cake. I don't know, just came to me. Oh, that was a sure enjoyed getting the call about the two 57 Roberts though. We got to just discover that, oh, and when during a break there, Jim, you were asking something about the Roberts and stuff. Yeah, I mean, the big difference between that and the creed more basically is the high BC bullets. Right. So in my ultimate mechanical ignorance, I'm thinking well, throw some high BC bullets in a two 57. There you go. Well, tell me why you can't do that. You can. At a certain point, the bullets will be so long that the standard twist rate on a two 57 Roberts is one in ten won't be enough to stabilize the bullet. That's really what makes the creed more do what it does is it has a fast twist rate so you can use the longer slash runner one and 8 one 7. If you could go to one and 8, you could go with longer bullets and there's pool blank black Jack. I think it is a company making high BC bullets for 25 calibers. But you do have to re barrel to use them. Okay. This burger may have longer bullets as well. Now, because nobody really had them for the 25 calibers because nobody had fast twist rate barrels. But if you had like 25.6 or even two 57 weatherby, all of those are one in ten, but if you cranked up to a one in 8, you could have a smoking rig. That would really be something. I'll get right on that. Well, what you'd have with the Robert, you get the lower recoil. And one of the things they've done, we talked about the 6.5 creedmoor. There's now very popular, the 6 millimeter grid. A smaller diameter bullet, lighter bullet, but they went with a fast twist rate making some really long skinny bullets, but what you get out of that is, again, less recoil. And the less recall you have, the better you're going to shoot. So these guys are out shooting competition, doing a lot of shooting. And it's just not beating them up. Well, you know what it is. The other thing is with really light recoil with these guns. You can see the bullet impact through the scope. Right, because they're not getting there. You're not getting the jump, yeah. And so if you can see, okay, I just, I'm a little low and left. You know, correct and aim right where you need to aim, shoot, and then move on to the next target. So you don't need a spotter and you're not trying to figure it all out. You're actually doing your own spotting through your rifle scope. Nice interesting. Nice. Cool..
The Trish Regan Show
New Mega Debt of $30 Trillion to RUIN America
"$30 trillion in counting, we found out how much debt we really have. And you know what? It's just going to keep getting worse. I mean, we keep spending our lawmakers want to keep on spending. They haven't gotten enough of it. And this doesn't even factor in what the Federal Reserve is doing. So I don't see how this ends very well. I mean, if you don't have the kind of growth to pay your bills, in this case, the $30 trillion worth of bills, then what actually happens? The long-term trajectory gets severely compromised. That's what happens. Meanwhile, you think about all the inflation that's happening right now, you'd have to have a heck of an economy, right? To be able to sustain all this. And yet, we're seeing weakness already. I want to point out that factory orders, they have declined in the latest month on record. They actually fail twice as much as anybody had expected in the month of January down four tenths of a percent, again, much more than people thought. And the question now is, does that continue? By the way, adjusted for inflation, they fell even more. So if you don't have the growth to keep up with all of this spending, then what really happens? I mean, ultimately, great societies have fallen and failed because they've done exactly this kind of thing. Think about the Roman Empire. I mean, the comparisons that could and should be made are quite real, right? You think about all the military operations we've got to send in 3000 more troops over to help out NATO, right? Because somehow where the policeman for the world, even though hey, forget about our own border. We take on everyone else's
Everything Everywhere Daily
Who Was Warlord Vortigern?
"Island of great britain was originally an island that was inhabited by celtic peoples. It was later occupied by roman became a roman province yet. The people who live on the island didn't end up speaking a celtic or romance language. They ended up speaking a language that belong to the germanic family of languages. The following story. A might have had something to do with how that happened. More on that in a bit the events in question date back to the late fifth century. This is a period of british history. That has some major holes. The roman empire had collapsed and nothing had really risen to take its place. There are many warlords and kings who vied for power. This was the period of time. When according to legend king arthur would have ruled so pretty much everything from this period is kind of questionable one of the rulers at that time was a warlord named voter turn. He was the leader of the britons in the wake of the roman collapse from what accounts we are told. He got to his position via a lot of duplicity and skulduggery supposedly. He had worked his way into a position of influence with the romans took advantage of that to usurp the throne the to rightful heirs. Were a pair of young brothers named or really ascend brosius and author and they were sent overseas for their education ford gern. Having assumed the throne had a hard time holding onto power he was constantly dealing with incursions from the picks and the scots and the north he was also dealing with the potential of an armada joining the two brothers to take back the throne. his solution to deal with. These problems was to hire mercenaries. Hiring mercenaries wasn't necessarily a bad idea it had been done throughout history with various levels of success. Forty gern contract out the work to to saxon brothers by the name of hen. Gist and horsa. They would bring in dramatic mercenaries to fight off the picks and the scots on behalf of the britain king in exchange for their services voltigeur offered this accents. The isle of janet to settle on today the island is actually a peninsula in the county of kent. Fifteen hundred years ago it was an island separated by six hundred meter channel. The saxon brought over at least eighteen warships full of warriors and probably many many more over time and there was something else that hingis brought over with him. His daughter rowena ruina was by all accounts very beautiful and iger in was spin with her
77WABC Radio
"roman empire" Discussed on 77WABC Radio
"11 20 years later, Thank you. Now the O Reilly update brings you something you might not know. This week in the year 476 a D. The last emperor of Rome was deposed by a dramatic chieftain, ending the Roman Empire. At its height, Rome controlled vast sections of the globe spanning from northern England to the Arabian Peninsula. Maintaining order did not come easy. Two thirds of all Roman taxes went to their legions, their soldiers By the 300 Sadie. The economy in Rome was falling apart. Unable to fight off or bribe the dramatic tribes from the north. The Roman Empire gave them land. This eroded the tax base. And when North Africa fell to the Vandals and 4 35 Rome lost Mediterranean dominance and access to some of its most productive farmland. Economic troubles. Government corruption, political instability incited open rebellion in the far away regions of the Roman Empire. In September. 4 76 a d. The barbarian Otto Acker banished Rome's last emperor, The teenager Rahm Youlus, Augustus. And that ended two centuries of political and social chaos as Rome fell apart. Otto Acker was a mercenary leader in the Roman Imperial Army. When he launched his mutiny against the emperor. He defeated the legions and seize control. The barbarian, and he was immediately declared himself ruler of Italy Soon after the empire collapsed, kingdoms rose up individually. And the dark Ages were ushered in. That caused food shortages, widespread poverty, and most Europeans fled the cities less than 80 years after the fall of Rome. The population. There went from 1.5 million to 30,000. And here's something else. You might not Don't while the Western Roman Empire collapsed in the fifth century, the Eastern branch endured The Byzantine Empire founded by the Emperor Constantine and 3 30, A D was administered from Constantinople for another 1000 years. Back after this. Thousands of animals are abandoned in the wilderness in America, and they need your help. I partnered up with Delta Rescue, the largest, no kill care for life Animal sanctuary in the world. Founded by actor Leo Grillo. Delta Animal Sanctuary is one of the kind rescue Trained attendants look after each animal, providing them with food treats, toys and affection. Also Delta rescue as an on site animal hospital that operates 365 days a year and unlike others, Don't the rescue believes in giving animals or right to life. They allow all moms to have their letters, then care for the entire family for life. Delta Rescue relies solely on donations from people like us. To help fulfill their mission. Support Delta rescue and put your legacy to work deltas, tax saving estate planning, grow your state while letting your compassion for animals live on well into the future..
A.D. History Podcast
"roman empire" Discussed on A.D. History Podcast
"This conflict end settled events so far. That's a great question to leave the audience away cement synchrony do not well under pressure. Potentially if you become that large you'd better be able to handle some pressure but if it was at the moment the moment is one crack it just gives the food piece his. I think it's more cumulative than that. Yeah i guess they were not a ten pot roman empire. What i would say is a few things in terms of at least for me and my appreciation for what rome was as an empire is that it's amazing to me a looking at this conflict. How many different types of people lived as subjects under roman rule how many different peoples and ethnicities entered editions and religions and culture because there was definitely clear romanisation that did happen but in some cases at genuinely fused with what existed there before or existed from those people that were native to those areas. Anyway and it's amazing that when you see this conflict boil up as it did seeing just how many of these various pieces that had come together of all these different people under the central government under the auspices and control and rule of a roman central government. It really makes you appreciate just how cosmopolitan and wide reaching this empire as we know about the geography and just how vast territory they controlled. They are for all intents and purposes and ancient superpower but all the different people that included. That weren't necessarily come on the out of the truly ethnic latin playbook and how that further fused and evolved over time with prolonged roman rule. And how that all just kind of really came to the surface here can put any best myself. last does must my single they do well in the Hawk the other thing that we've mentioned it before is also very much from a governmental standpoint. Makes you appreciate the accomplishment of successful peaceful coherent and established formal systems of transition of power which at its heart was very much art of one of the main issues that created this crisis in general just in general as you as you said we mentioned poetry never had an easy transition of power. It was just always up in the air was going to happen next. They never had that trudy entrench. I mean they did they will be hereditary. Never actually did it. Well it'd be. It was hereditary with the exception of the so called five good emperors who are just coming up with ad hoc solutions around it for various reasons but it turned into a hereditary business..
A.D. History Podcast
"roman empire" Discussed on A.D. History Podcast
"Having listened to this how unite will having researched as we have and the first question. I'm curious about is what made irrelevant so effective both on the battlefield and dealing with the civil side. You have to one that. Don't you because despite fats. He was just another barriers m pratt. He headquartered t's just seventy back and did no you're wondering well maybe subpoenas upbringing like he understood. The civil side of things have more tactical brain. Or maybe it's just simply because he's seen what came before he wasn't maximus. Frances we mentioned four hundred. He was the folks barrack and brad noy there. What he was doing that was that was a few heads ago. That must be almost thirty years by now. Maybe even more than that. yeah like. it's at least. Three decades arabian suddenly free decades of learning from previous barakat mistakes of what to do and what not to do so maybe it's just the fact that he came in off seeing these mistakes seeing a cool. I went to what they did. Maybe it was the fact that he just had time when they cited more no more experience himself but more people experience what he'd experienced already so realize what's not do it does leave one to wonder exactly what lessons he took from the past year. Lessen the past. 'cause boy is much better sigli explaining things. I mumbled about full. Patrick you are one of the true original thinkers that i have ever met so that is a very high compliment..
A.D. History Podcast
"roman empire" Discussed on A.D. History Podcast
"Anorexia did manage to defeat him and what was apparently some pretty nasty fighting and took back the city itself and actually really damaged some of the wealthiest parts of alexandria and interestingly enough firmness when he was captured by millions forces. He was sentenced to death by straight out strangulation. Wow yeah really really really brutal stuff. Gosh tell me about it. Now we're getting to the final piece of the puzzle. Which is the reconquest of the gallic empire and we did touch about the on this about the last couple of episodes when we were focusing on the gallic empire. But we're going to look at it a little bit more in the big picture as it pertains to a rally an end the bigger roman picture to kind of round things out once palmira and the romans are largely under control as far as he could see and would really remain so for the remainder of israel short as he had to go the other splinter state the gallic empire and in to seventy four to seventy five that is precisely what he did a ralian and his men did defeat the gallic forces in modern day francis basically the battlefield was in north eastern france. Almost kind of near paris almost and the gallic troops at that time of course labor former roman troops and they were pretty darn experience they had dealt with war in a variety of ways even though they still had all the issues that so many of the roman military had regardless. If you're wearing a splinter state or still formerly in the empire itself and in this gets us something that's rather interesting. The leader of the gallic empire tetris. The first apparently before they even met in battle he sent an emissary to iranian offering to surrender and peacefully reincorporate. Back into the roman empire are alien was obviously extremely weary of this particular reproach mon and so he tested him. He said okay. I'll consider this but in order to do so. You need to give up the entirety of your army. You have to serve them up. That is how you're going to put the proof in the pudding..
A.D. History Podcast
"roman empire" Discussed on A.D. History Podcast
"And they didn't end up sacking the city so tionna ends up being this exceptional example of ralian saying hey if we present ourselves and truly act as liberators and not conquerors. We're gonna make this an easier flight and not pick fights that are unnecessary along the way but the anna and the rest of the pow million impr- empire even want to be won't be liberated. I will they not happy being there at this time. Will they income. This isn't really what can we should. We be a very make an. I'm just curious. You have any knowledge on not fact. I don't necessarily know that there was that much self-determination available to them. They're not the ones that the Who's controlling the sword as it were but they knew that there were definitely benefits to being under a properly administered improperly running roman empire. They had been under that rule for centuries at this point so there was definitely a clear roman footprint and claim to that area and the fact that they were not being mistreated spoke volumes. So if the idea of winning hearts and minds you would have full. Some would have this idea ready pool. Oh yeah absolutely and so. He continued this practice when eventually he came to fight at antioch which was basically the major pitch battle against the palmira nhs and which a variety of exceptional tactics were undertaken by orillia. N- that really threw off the pow. Marion armies really quite well. I'm not gonna go into exceptional detail about that because there's a little bit more big picture than not but when they did eventually capture antioch once again they were welcomed because they were acting as liberators they were looking to win hearts and minds and on top of that when the eventually took the city in this was one of his big goals he also got his hand on the all important mint which was the last major meant in roman territories that were not currently under rum control that he did not possess himself and once again we talked earlier about the importance of that and once or alien has antioch hand which is essentially..
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"roman empire" Discussed on A.D. History Podcast
"For a number of reasons that we're gonna get into more in the following segment and this is fascinating because you know when we look at somebody like maximize tax was also not high born. He had no appreciation fact. He had an outright disdain for politics and the senate barely ever set foot in rome. I think maybe once maybe once if at all and we look at him and we say oh you know. He's obviously not as refined as many of his contemporaries in case of tracks credit. Because obviously he was not ethnically roman but he was almost barbaric in the way he conducted himself and something that you anaya ponder at the time just kind of musing between us here on air was his lack of more formal education and refinement responsible for the fact that he couldn't really do everything that he realistically wanted to do whereas in the case of ralian who once again is not high born at all to be sure he definitely over time played up this idea of truly being a man of the people which in many respects he was because he got where he was on pure ability and preparation beating opportunity the ultimate definition of luck and he understood things in a way that someone like maximize thrashers coming out of similar circumstances growing up in rising in the ranks. The iranian seems to really understand that somebody like maximize threats simply did not. Yeah and what. I find interesting is just how history even on modern as storage even historians of room how they portrayed these issue competitive with maximize francs franks Mussa cows of frocks described his beast lumbering of a man. I said almost barbaric francs and rayleigh. Washy kanda born in similar areas As we mature. Gordon they serve is special mania francis bonifacio which is in the balkans region is today on possible gay greece and turkey said these two really do come similar but just how history is depicted. Them is so different. If you look in by the patient of a ralian his often seen as being you know he. He wouldn't look down a place with the augusta. So hadrian bef- wrecks just looks like he's from a different type of prehistoric list. He does have a caveman quality to them. At least that's the way the history portrays them. Exactly that's what i'm saying. That's the way history has betrayed They've been kind to available..
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"roman empire" Discussed on A.D. History Podcast
"To get fiona coyne scenes you know. We have to thank mary beard for coming up with that little bit there because it is just so perfect and something that is interesting. It's a reoccurring theme throughout his campaign to restore the roman empire where he's trying to get his hands on all of these mints. I mean they become objectives for him because in addition to monetary and fiscal policy and economics of the matter. Getting your face out there is important. You know there were times depending on where you were in the empire you may not necessarily have known there have been a change in power until you got your hand on some new coinage. Which i think is awfully fascinating nice. Really fascinating use wireless sudden get paid is a new due to mike. Money must be emperor wu. Yeah a of putin. His facing some coins ralian turned his attention to the usual hong. How am i pronounce that right. You knows the funky were a germanic tribe who was woolworth's when claudius died that was to imprison and like they were still fighting with them so he fort worth close can defeat them. I better i saw the sign. The gitonga was successfully invading northern italy. And they were actually heading home with the boozy however really caught up with them and proceeded to of course fight them this to battles between romandie jeff and this was the battle and the battle of pa- via and was successful in both these fights and they ousted the fungi fret. So that's one germanic tribe with however there were never tried knocking about well. It was going to say that the interesting part about that story. I could be incorrect. But i do remember coming across. This is that when they caught the germanic tribe of effectively they called them to use the term with their britches down because they were trying to cross the danube at the time and they were weighed down by plunder and captured slaves. Yes your own. Greed has become the battery. While i'm eating like the reason a railing could catch up with them because they had so much busey in slaves and good. He said From road as actually making then go slower so that was kind of their own undoing. Their ingred kind of led to the defeat and after the defeats integer. Fungi originally intended attention to another germanic tribe. Now's the vendors..
Travel with Rick Steves
The Complicated History of The Rhine
"Our hearts are heavy. Knowing that the romantic views of castles and vineyards and germany's rhine river valley are overshadowed by the recent loss of life and flooding devastation. In germany and the low countries just downstream. From where we're talking about the following interview with tour guides tabby and ruger and nico fava real was recorded last year hot drinks so being. Give us a feeling for the medieval ryan which really created the ryan. We see today as tourists the most important trading river the with the romans already the problems with the rhyme began. It was widely considered that east of the rhine burien live. West of the rhine was civilization. And that's i went all the way through into modern history. France of course try to make for centuries the ryan its eastern border. The germans fought back and eventually of course that ended in one thousand nine hundred eighty. It's interesting when you think about it. That the ryan would have been a huge border culturally between the romans and the barbarians and from a french point of view between the french and the germans. Yeah so when you have a border like that nickel in in europe generally what happens it's Where wars having between. France and germany divorce happen then the ryan either stopped the wars or a lot of areas on the border especially in the french part of the border for instance. The elvas as region has been taken by germany. Many many times am so. It's a war zone between countries. So also been the war zone between religions catholics. Protestants fought over as yes in that area today. Even i mean today. It's kind of the border between catholic and protestant europe. Yes you could say that. Yeah north of the ryan is definitely more protestant. Now when you have the in the middle ages there was not a lot of Paved roads there is not a love law and order. If you wanted to get your goods to the market going down. The river was was one safer way to do it. I suppose it was a safe way. But you have to be careful of something. called robber. Barons who stopped ships along their journey but big chains along or across the rhine made the ship. Stop in and steal everything or steal everything in well amount of duties to say you've gotta pay ten percent of what's on your boat to continue down. Yeah i've heard this word robber. Baron castle so maybe the rhine river fabulous is sort of the quintessential example of a robber. Baron castle zone robot. Baron is a term in particular rob nights for a particular phase during the holy roman empire. Where nights had fallen so poor that the only way to keep the status was to rob traders and so on even if it was not their right to do so and eventually the problem became so bad that you had this middle class of nights who had fallen poor and became robust that the big tradings and merchants. The city's gathered union and under the emperor thing was the second thirteenth century or so. They sent this along the rhine to clear out all the rubber nights castles and literally hung them from the trees along the rhine
WBAP 820AM
"roman empire" Discussed on WBAP 820AM
"Played with the girls and and the senators. It could offer the most free tickets. Because I don't go to the games and the most free food. They are the ones that got reelected. But when the barbarians got ready to come in when the wrong with your saying, man, we're at our peak, you look kind of great. We are, uh uh Who's going to fight for the barbarians came in all the slaves ran away. And, of course, the young Romans hadn't had any military experience. They're laying around, eating and playing with the girls. Yeah. Bruce? Yeah. If you read the decline of the Roman Empire, it's pretty interesting. And it's uh, It's interesting in the sense that, um, you know, no nation does something in the vacuum. I mean, it's all happened before at some level, and it's amazing that human beings keep making the same mistakes over and over again. Well, there's Bruce Bruce. Good call, he says, Uh, His number one to pick would have been New Hampshire and Vermont as the most patriotic states. Um I am primarily due to the least amount of of immigration. Kevin in Idaho Falls, Idaho. Kevin How you doing? Well, Good afternoon, Rick. How are you today? I'm well, sir. Thank you. I love your show, and, uh, I have. I have to really question those results myself. My My guess would have been Texas in Idaho and, uh Montana. I highly question because you know they're our next door Neighbors here and They're purple at best. Uh, politically, uh and, uh, yeah. You look at the politics. You look at the military you look at All these different factors. And, you know I'm there in the oil and gas business. I worked a lot Well, I flew in to observe a lot and Miles City and Glenn Dive and you know all of that and so pretty familiar with with Montana, but only in the rural sense. His ex world. The jobs were, but, um, yeah, Kevin, I would. The Idaho seems like a very pretty conservative, but you've got to remember and I had to go back and reread part of it because the question was what is the most conservative state? They said, What's the most patriotic state? And to me, they go hand in hand. You know what I mean? Well, and that's my thinking as well. And I believe they honestly, I believe they do. Um, history kind of demonstrates that as well, Um Um, you know, at least if you look at the last Four or five decades, Um as well, but, uh, more so now than ever. Who is it? That is, uh, advocating for strong defense right for a good strong military for, uh You know, smaller government funding, smaller government and and and really honoring well and look at the whole. Marga movement, You know, it was very It was centered around. Um, hello for America in patriotic love. Support for our military support for those that are protecting our, uh Rights and interests both abroad but within our borders as well. And and I think, Kevin, I think you're right on point. I think you're Kevin is here to say that no matter what the polls say the the poll results came in this morning. He believes Texas and Ida, Idaho are the most patriotic states. Well, we'll take more of your calls. Next on news talking 20. How can Texas not even be in the top 10? I'm sorry. Is it because we've got Beato? Is that it? 1 800 to 8 They w b A P 1 800 to 889227 your call straight ahead. The.
Everything Everywhere Daily
The History of Muslim-Controlled Spain
"In the early eighth century the iberian peninsula was populated by the visigoths who are dramatic people who entered and populated the peninsula after the collapse of the roman empire. During the reign of the caliph will lead the first general. Tariq iban ziad lead moore's forces across the mediterranean and landed in gibraltar on april thirtieth in the year seven eleven. This began a seven year campaign. Where the moore's brought most of the iberian peninsula under islamic control the term moore should probably be explained as i've used it here. In several previous episodes there really are no people called. Moore's the term more was used by europeans to describe muslim inhabitants. From north africa included people of different ethnicities including berbers and arabs. The term isn't too dissimilar from the term francs which was used by muslims in the middle east to describe all europeans. The term comes from the roman province of mauritania which is where modern day morocco is located. The current country of that name is not located exactly where the ancient province of mauritania is located. The invasion began a period where muslim rulers controlled at least part of the iberian peninsula for almost eight hundred years the moore's never completely conquered the peninsula however even at its greatest extent just eight years. After the invasion there was still a part of the peninsula that remained under christian control in the far north the kingdom of asturias remained independent and it was never conquered that being said one of the reasons why they had such an easy time is because they gave very generous terms to the people who they did. Conquer one example of this is theodomir the visigoths chief of america. He agreed to terms where he could still continue to be the leader of his people and practice christianity. All they had to do was pay an annual tribute. The entire region of iberian muslim rule was known in arabic as al
Everything Everywhere Daily
The History of Spanish Africa
"I say that there are parts of spain and africa. I'm not trying to be tricky and play with words. I'm not saying that. Spain used to have colonies in africa. Although that's true. I'm also not trying to define the canary islands. Which are part of spain off the coast of africa as being in africa. I mean in the most literal sense possible. That part of spain is in africa. There are two very small spanish cities located on the peninsula which are on the african mainland ordering morocco and malia and their very existence as you probably would expect are due to historical quirks happenstance due to geography. Spain has always had a close relationship with africa finishes based in carthage in. What is today. Tunisia established settlements on the spanish coast. The roman province of hispania was part of a greater empire that included all of north africa. Which bordered the mediterranean after the roman empire fell islamic moors from north africa conquered and controlled spain for over seven hundred years. So there's always been a back and forth between north africa in the peninsula and malia both spanish territories in africa have different yet similar histories despite being about one hundred and thirty miles apart from each other. Sita is located directly across the sea from gibraltar. So if you ever want stump someone asks them. What country lies. Directly south of gibraltar and what country lies. North of gibraltar. answer is the same. Spain is on both ends. Sierra makes the counterpart to gibraltar for the pillars of hercules which the ancient names of the two promontories which guarded the strait of gibraltar. As with most everything in the region it has an ancient history. Carthage martina and numidians all control the area. Before the romans the you me add caliphate controlled it for centuries when the caliphate of cordoba fell in ten thirty one it was then passed between various north african kingdoms with support from various kingdoms in the iberian peninsula.
The Breakdown with NLW
How 2,000 Years Of Monetary History Led Us To Bitcoin, With Nik Bhatia
"All right nick. Welcome to the breakdown. How you doing. I'm doing great. Thank you so much for having me. This should be superfund so as we were just discussing following your writing forever. I loved seeing it. Come together in kind of the the full length form In what i wanted to do today is actually kind of go back through history. And i think what layered money does so well is it gives people the context understand this rather than kind of just being like. Here's why bitcoin is awesome. Bitcoin is amazing. Let's actually dig into the history of money that got us here. And so what. I thought would be really fun. Today is actually walk. The listeners through some of that history of money starting way back at the beginning But before that. I guess like start with defining the kind of the central term here the central concept of layered money since the name of the book. It's obviously a really important concept. What is layered money. Actually meet layered. Money is a new framework. And so what i did was i took this idea of assets and liabilities and in our monetary system the way that the way that the system works is that financial institutions have assets and liabilities. They have relationships with each other and through these relationships come. Monetary instruments and monitoring instruments. Because they are within these relationships between financial institutions there is a natural hierarchy there and so the hierarchy of monetary instruments is not something that is common commonly discussed at term. So my goal with layered money was to bring that to the forefront in instead of talking about liabilities talking about a pyramid of money in which there is a hierarchy and at top of the pyramid are certain financial instruments or commodities and certain financial institutions. Right below them using those assets as the base for a whole monetary system and so the idea for layer money actually came directly from a paper in academia called the inherent hierarchy of money by a economics. Professor merlin. And what he wrote was fat. Money is inherently hierarchy go and he provided this academic framework for this and he had a three layered system gold government currency and deposits so a three layer system and i found that paper so fascinating in. So what i did was. I actually tried to trace the roots of that paper. That paper didn't have a historical context. It was about the hierarchy of sheets in the financial system. What i did with layered money is. I tried to trace the roots of that paper and i ended up starting the story about eight hundred years ago in renaissance florence To describe how. I saw this evolution occurred so i wanna get into florence but you actually start the book even farther back. You kind of pull the earliest experiments with coinage kind of set it in historical context. So let's talk about in the sort of ad era. I guess those early experiments with money with coinage What were the important kind of steps on the journey to get to where we get in that in that kind of renaissance that early period. What were the important parts of the earliest phases that you're looking at. So the transition between gold and gold coins is what identified as the first important transition so before gold coins gold was used golden. Silver were used as mediums of exchange. But it was in the form of non standardized fars jewelry etc these days gold and silver items but not necessarily uniform in their measure in weight. So the coin. The coin did was it. Changed this idea that we can to measure or gold and silver. Every time we transacted with each other. Because now the coin that i that you recognized you have acquired that i recognize. I know how much your coin as you know how much mike ways and so we can change We can exchange a lot quicker than if we didn't have the coin so that was very important advance in that happened for the first time. Several hundred years before a renaissance florence in actually in ancient libya which is in modern day turkey so after the after we start getting gold coins then we actually see the greek in the roman empire's us coins To admit coins and to use these coins in order to expand their empires and exert their influence over their subjects and what we saw the roman empire was really example devaluation so this idea that a government can come in mint coin but then the next year put less gold. Silver in the coin and progressively keep cheapening the currency But tried to really get away with this idea that the currency that the issue this year is the same as the currency that they issued ten years ago which had twice as much silver or golden and so the manipulation of currency at through government started to happen as well Along the signed before we get into the rasul's
KLIF 570 AM
"roman empire" Discussed on KLIF 570 AM
"Michael Knowles show. I'm Michael knows this is my single favorite moment of the week when we get to your questions in the mail bag first mailbag question is from Ben. Is there a balance between attaining as much virtue as one should before entering into romantic relationships versus dealing with scruples? How do you know when you are ready to date if you are struggling with vices Okay? Excellent. Excellent question for those who don't know what scruples are scrupulous city. It's uh, kind of the opposite problem that most people are facing. Right now. Most people are facing this problem where they were refused to even acknowledge the reality of sin and vice and they just think we can do whatever we want. A zoo. Long as we all consent. We can do whatever we want, right? We've been talking about that this week on the show the opposite problem, though. But it's also a serious problem is when you think that everything is a sin, even things that aren't since and so you're just so afraid, and you refused to do anything in your kind of your hampered and frozen by fear of sinning, even perfectly ordinary things. And how this relates to dating. It is certainly the case that if you were mired advice and you're a total degenerate derelict, then you can really hurt people when you're dating or dating casually. Or maybe I'm even using the word dating too broadly. But when you're you know, chatting up the ladies, you can do that. And that's something you should keep in check. And just don't be a jerk, you know, and just every time you were attempted to be a jerk, which will be frequent. Don't be. And when you do behave like a jerk, feel bad about it and maybe go to confession. This is Mike sort of Catholic advice on it, but just try not to do it again. But don't don't live your life in fear. Goodness gracious man. I mean the process of Adolescence and beginning to date and, you know, chatting up different girls. Is coincides with a period which you're gonna be learning a lot of things it that process itself will educate you as well. So I would say Go out there, Chat up the chicks and don't be a jerk. But do not be. Do not be hampered by fear you if you wait until you attain perfect virtue. To go date girls. You're probably gonna be sitting at home a lot. And if something tells me That one of the vices you're alluding to is Internet porn because every Every guy basically, who writes into the show with questions like this. It refers to Internet porn at some point or is alluding to Internet porn because it's it's a ubiquitous vice and temptation it relates directly to relationships into romance into marriage. Uh, over 90% of guys well over 90% of guys have looked at it. At some point. Many of many, many of those people look at a very young I think that the average median age of which point young boys are exposed to this is like 11 or something. So yeah, it's a big problem, and it can it can mess you up. But You know you're the only way out is through, right? You're not going to get everything about your life in order personally privately in your own head. And then you're going to be able to go out and interact in society ain't gonna happen. So you got it. You got to just work on all of these things at once. You You can't freeze time We've been We've been talking about this a little bit on the show, too. You know we're living in time. So you've got it. You've got to be able to do multiple things. Once work on yourself and go out and build your life and build your career and build your hobbies, And you can't just on Lee do one of those at a time. Next question from Bryson. Hey, Michael. Congrats on the baby. Thank you very much. My pastor recently preached a sermon online, where he said that we should follow. This is why it was online because, he said, we should follow government lockdown rules because of Romans 13. First one Everyone must submit himself to the governing authorities, for there is no authority except that which God has established. What is your response? When Christians use this verse to say that we must follow the insane China virus restrictions? P s. I love your show. Thank you for all that you do with the daily wire. You or does your pastor read that line from Romans? You mean at the earliest Christians should have worshiped pagan idols. Christianity spread in many ways through the blood of the martyrs. And there were many, many Christian martyrs during the Roman Empire who refused to worship. The Roman pagan gods and worship pagan idols. It was the law, but they broke the law and they've suffered the consequences for breaking the law. And then they went up to heaven because they were martyrs. Is your pastor really believe that Romans is Are saying that we shouldn't do this. Don't I can't imagine he thinks that You know one thing I would recommend on this point because Wait. Do you have to give great deference to civil authority in the civil Authority is there for our own good and the state is not an illegitimate thing. And it is it is there from our own good and You know, hierarchies of rules exist for our own good and exist all the way up to the kingdom of heaven. Sure. However, ST Thomas acquired us recognizes there there are times to overthrow the tyrants, shackles. And so the question is, What is that time? And how should we do it? One recommendation I would give you is to go take a listen to Spencer Claiborne's young heretics podcast. He just did the last couple of days. He's done a series on the right of revolution. And the right of civil disobedience and the right to push back against these things. That would be some great extra listening. I'll give you a short answer here. In case you don't wanna take the time to listen to Spencer Show, which is We're now told that we need to pay obeisance to many rituals of the liberal liturgical calendar, right? We're told it is right and just to go out and perform the BLM rituals. Which mostly involved burning down cities and stealing Gucci handbags. We're told it's perfectly fine to observe the antifa rituals. We can't go to church churches are closed. Big left wing events are open, which have a liturgical and religious character. Those are those are open. The marijuana dispensaries in California. They've been open pretty much the whole time. They're essential, but churches are closed. Would seem to me, obviously not a perfect analogy of vory vory diminished version..
SuperTalk WTN 99.7
"roman empire" Discussed on SuperTalk WTN 99.7
"To E? Come on, man, You know if you look at all areas of the market over the past 20 years, it's the top area the market. You may want to know what it's doing. Yeah, but back to Powell, So you know he's not gonna pop this bubble yet, so so to speak, And that's really the big thing about how is the Fed to Papa bubble by increasing interest rates? And is it a bubble number one Think we've already basically put that to bed? But if we look at what the Fed is looking at, they're saying we're not necessarily sitting here. You know, just absolutely tearing our hair out, concerned that we're going to be dealing with inflation. In the near future. Because we're not opening up businesses you say? Well, why isn't the Fed raising? Why wouldn't they be raising interest rates so they don't care what you're running on your CD? You know, that's not necessarily they care, but they don't really care. What's your you know the CD rates, You know, people maybe think back to the 19 eighties and think I remember when my CD was paying 16% And you know my had a CD to pay 12 from the 4 13%. And they don't think about the fact that the inflation rate was 13% at that point in time, and you still weren't earning any money on your CDs. No interest rates are driven by inflation, You know, So if you look at short term interest rates, there is a high correlation with the inflation rates. And right now there's just not a lot of heck of lot of inflation out there to be seen. I actually remember trying to sell bonds during the you know, 80 45 in interest rates were coming down, and it was just very difficult because people just still wanted those high yield bonds. And they still did not realize why should hide your love is all about the risky bonds were just talking about those returns. I had college things that we're doing it in 77 78. You're like people would cancel trades because they bought a bond that was 13%. And two days later before, and that was when the trading settlement. They was five days. My good now it's three. Um, they would say, Well, you know, there's a new point out there for 15. Why should I pay for that Bond? That's 13 right. Cancel trades. Yes, yes, And so that's the issue. That's when we talk about folks when we talk about bonds and the price of bonds and the risk of bonds. That's the real risk, you know. So let's say that you buy a bond, and that thing is paying as Iris said It's paying 13%. Not now. But back, then maybe on then you know you go. I'm gonna lock up my money for the next 10 years at 13%. And you'd be like, Oh, Happy day right now. But back then you're going well, wait a minute. Interest rates are changing on a pretty regular basis, and you'd have a couple days later. Like he said, you'd have a new bond paying 15% for the same 10 year period. Well that that bond that pays 13% is not terribly helpful to you anymore because there's something that's going to pay you on your $1000 bond 15 $150 per year and interest. Why would I want that bond that it's only gonna pay $130 per year. I'm gonna be losing $20 per year. So that person that owned that poor person I mean, we looked at it now and say that's a really high interest rate. Those support person that owned that 13% bond when the new one that came out that paid 15 Hit the market because then all of a sudden they're sitting there going I'm taking if I want to get rid of this. If I've got to get my money out, I'm gonna have to drop the price of the bond, and that's how people lose money on bonds. Yes, because this interest rate risk can be tremendously challenging. Especially as interest rates start to go up. But that's not really what we're necessarily concerned about right now. It's it's really a different deal right now because of the fact that people are looking out there and going well interest rates of super super low And the only alternative really, for any kind of rate of return whatsoever, because even high yield bonds aren't paying much any. No, no. I mean, the spreads air like in in spreads being you know if I lend money to a high quality borrower. Versus what interests White ray to my going to charge them versus if I lend it to a high yield, or a high risk borrower, the spreads are fairly minor. You're not really picking up much additional return for the risk you're getting. You know, And then that's just you see, Look at theoretical return. Well, yeah, And why? Why is that the case was because it's It's like in the days when we talk about when I talk about risk, and I go back 2000 years to the Roman proceeding. Which was the first government bond when it looked like the Roman Empire was rocking and rolling, and things were okay and then we weren't really necessarily worried about a whole lot of things. There weren't big risks on the horizon to the Roman Empire. Those bonds had a very, very low rate of return. And then when things looked risky, That's when all the sudden interest rates went way up. And that's exactly what was happening in the early eighties that IRA was talking about what was the risk in the early eighties. That the dollar was going to drop in value significantly. Well, that risk is all but off the table right now. It's not something that we're sitting there worried about. Now, Some people are out there saying Oh, no, there's a high risk of inflation. But the reality of it is I've been hearing that for 40 years. As an economics major. Back in the early 19 eighties, there was the worry that the government was going crowd out borrowing. In other words, they were gonna borrow all the available money and drive interest rates up. But there's so much cash on the on the sidelines right now. Yeah, And that's really what is driving interest rates right now what they are right now. It is very low rate is because interest rates are so low that nobody really has to pay much to use your money, and that's what you got to look at. You know, people saying all the government's gonna be borrowing like, you know, I love what Reagan says about drunken sailors. You know that That's putting that's giving a bad name, the drunken sailors because they spent their own money, But when we're talking about the government is not quite exactly that case. But but, you know, In fact, when we have the government Necessary, putting out there a lot of cash and and putting that money out there and friending. You think there's gonna be a lot of inflation? It's not showing up necessarily. How do we know that interest rates that is your best predictor? In reality in the in the markets is the best predictor of future interest rates of current interest rates and best predictor of inflation is the short term interest rate, and that's not necessarily what we're saying. Right now. We're not seeing that big run up in that particular area, And there's an article in the journal this morning that talks about the Fed has no intent of raising interest rates for maybe years to come. Yeah, Yeah. Case in point. Your case in point, Ira. That's exactly right. So, So we're seeing that and we're going well, why? Well, the Fed has they have access to all the data that They really want to have as far as what economic activity is, and they're looking at it going. We're not there yet. We're not necessarily there yet where there's an inflationary pressure Now, why is that? Are the reason could be You know this innovation.
860AM The Answer
"roman empire" Discussed on 860AM The Answer
"One. Gabrielle, Welcome to Jason here alive. Hi. I just wanted to call and ask you a legal question. I heard that by them, and I'm not sure if this is completely true is gonna find it. The order to stop the wall from being built. Yes. Can he do that? Yes, about way when Trump could they stopped him with, like 50 lawsuits? They always try to prevent him from from utilizing what the funds. Were They exactly Executive order. But this is what we're past that now. So he was able to do about 400 miles of the most sophisticated most up to date new and you saw this massive decrease. It wasn't an issue anymore. Illegal immigrate, I think because they knew that you were doing this plus enforcement of our actual laws and deportations. But what Joe Biden is going to do is president likely today to sign a border Wall Proclamation executive order that terminates the national road see at the border. Halts the funds for wall construction, directs a pause and ongoing construction as soon as possible, but no later than seven days. Yes, I mean, I mean, but looking at the wheel stops being built. But this is where we go back to the issue that elections. There are consequences with elections and this is one of the consequence of look. We're not gonna be able to constitutionally mandate that he builds a wall. No, okay. We're gonna have to challenge the wisdom off of reducing border security to such an extent that it causes harm to the American people. For instance, now I understand that they stop. This caravan was on its way. Has that been stopped now? What about one of the country's gotta have learned about it? Yeah, I think some of the country's stop it. But it was like Joe Biden was given more welcome in because this 1st 100 days, no deportations. And if you're here, you're gonna be great amnesty. Right? So now some of that he can't do know that has to go through Congress and have amnesty cannot be done by him. Right, Doctor. These temporary things can be But the full on amnesty would have to take Congress and listen. Uh, Congress, you might be able to get it through the house. But it's not getting through the Senate likely so he's also going to make promises that he won't this happen with President Obama Lot they made promises they could never deliver on And I think you know it didn't cost President Obama's much because there wasn't a great you know, they weren't great candidates, especially. I think Mitt Romney versus Obama. Everybody was giving. It knew that president was like going to get re elected. You fought it out, but it just wasn't there. The passion wasn't there. And but he made promises He couldn't he couldn't give Joe Biden will do that. The question the media that doesn't hold him to account at all. That you already see the shift going forward. I mean, because you're watching it. It's like I'm trying to figure out why are people going to turn it on? You're not They're not going to turn on praise Joe Biden Networks and because it's not interested. You they want your policy disputes they want here. What does he want to do? They don't wanna hear about his dog. They don't care about him. The personal stories don't really matter anymore. He's the president. What he does is president does or what? He doesn't do my great fear. And all of this is we've had four years with no military incursions. Yeah. I mean, Wes, you served in the military. You retired as a colonel from United States Army. My concern is he's brought the same people back that got us into conflict after conflict after conflict. Absolutely. You made use of the word. Justin. George Bush did that to you Meet your men to go that elections have consequences. I hope Mr Biden will learn quickly that words in policies have consequences when you telegraph weakness. You are enemies like Iran or to her adversaries like Russia and China. They will take advantage of that weakness. When you telegraph weakness on border security. You get 9000 people, stubborn, your border. I mean the policies and the way he telegraphs weakness, like Obama did will have disastrous consequences, And it seems like that's what he's going to do. I want to go to Andy on this one. Because is that any is a historian, and that is historically at this moment. If you lose your comparison in history, yes, Yes, One of the things that we learned in the Roman Empire in the history of the Roman Empire was something it says very carefully if you conquer and if you win, and you prevail as he has done, okay. Don't over conquer. Don't overplay your hand because that will come back to destroy you ultimately, and this is what he is doing. He doesn't understand the importance of consensus and the fact that 75 million people in the United States voted for Donald Trump for president of the United States. There's two of their because and unfortunately politically, I think has been the case for a long time. But they have tried to, like, drive that wedge like you know, they drive that would show you supported President Trump. You're bad. You're bad person. You're not You can't be another system. The world America first. That's racist. That's it A phobic on get. I think he listing Richards call out of Kansas because I think this is important. If you want to see the ideas of President Trump Continue. How do you see? How do you see that done? And I think Richard is right. Richard. Welcome to J Secure life. You're on the air. All right. Thanks for taking my call. Yeah, the Americans first movement has to start We have to pick up the mantle in our local communities in ourselves in our in our neighborhood. Work up from there and take care of our local governments are county governments in our state governments? You have to monitor them. We have a declaration of independence that sets forth our government governance. Well, I think you're absolutely right, Richard, that people have got to wake up because we saw Republican legislatures all over the country dropped the ball. I'm not going to re litigate that, but they did. We saw horrendous Republican elected officials run horrible elections and then do it again in Georgia. And and you know, they should face electoral consequences for that. Because you have to make a decision. If you're if you if you vote more likely Republican and Democrat is Are you like those Republicans stay in office. You're gonna let is that who's gonna leave your party at the state level at the statewide level? Well, Richard's talking about is even getting more locally involved. Who is your state? Rep. Can you hold them to account? If you live in a Republican state represents district and they ran on being trump supporter of this American for Are they actually doing that the state level Are they doing that at the at the visit local level state level as your mayor doing what they said they were doing going to do is your congressman or woman doing what they said they were going to do is your senators that you elected? Who ran ads with President Trump in them. Are they still holding that Mantle? Or if they run away from it. Those the ones. Those are the people who should be canceled out of the party. That the person who got them elected Because it running with that message. That's the truth. That's how that could hold today that we just, you know, take in today. Be ready to fight tomorrow. Yeah, I think Look, I mean, I think the president said.
KQED Radio
"roman empire" Discussed on KQED Radio
"For many people. When you say the Coliseum they often think of this. Oh, you should see the Colosseum. Spaniard. 50,000 moments 40 every movement of your sword. The Majesty of the Coliseum as described by Proximo in the movie Gladiator. Roman Coliseum has stood for nearly 2000 years. Interestingly, after the fall of the Roman Empire for hundreds of years, since it has had no floor visitors instead peer into the tunnels and systems of pulleys once used by gladiators and the wild animals they fought. Now the Italian government says restore the floor. Paolo Carafa teaches Roman archaeology at last Sapienza University in Rome the Carlos soon today, he said. Huge view in Anyway, it is still possible to figure out how it could have looked like when it was still entire. And what elements that are not there today in the Coliseum did exist during the Roman Empire. They see key. We missed everything that was connected to the decoration, marble seats, marbles, cultures, collars. And things like that, and we have lost the wooden floor. And what about the floor? So it was covering a set of tunnels? What were those tunnels used for? They are basically four corridors with pillars. And with a sort of concrete boxes with elevators inside to let people and animals appear in the arena. I know. Italian authorities are currently accepting design proposals for the new floor with a deadline of February 1st on there's a budget of $12 million. How accurate of a redesigned should we expect? Will the floor do you think be made of wood again with sand on top? Well at the moment, we cannot be that sure that in the end, we will have a flow ER, which would be identified as a proper copy off the original one, but for a long time, the ecological administrations They think that preserving a ruin means Mantei Ning in the state of ruin. I seen that important point is to explain. The largest number off people possible. What that ruin looked like What it drawing was used for the firm point, basically, is the respect for the ancient structures. And from that architects could have a new idea. Also, for example, I gather that despite strict health measures, you and your students, Paolo have been able to continue your work and the Roman Forum and the Palestine Hill. It must be strange without all the tourists around or I don't know. Maybe it's an unexpected luxury. Yeah, it is a luxury and in some sense, as you would say, is really cozy is such a wonderful place all for yourself with wonderful weather. And is really nice at the moment and you can really appreciate you're fired, analyzing and enjoying all you see, I'm jealous. Power corrupts now you don't have to Telegrapher teaches Roman archaeology at last Sapienza University in Rome, which is where he's been speaking with us from Paulo. Thank you very much. Thank you very much and goodbye. You're listening to the world. It's 20 minutes after two o'clock, There's been a lot of trouble getting onto the Bay Bridge heading in the westbound direction. Julie de Fishes here did give us the details. Sandy good have to do And it's all because the media re lights were turned on about 11 30 this morning of the Bay Bridge Toll Plaza big back up into the maze, and it's affected your ride. 80 westbound. That's a crawl from Golden Gate Fields near Hercules have got a solo spin out highway for westbound before Franklin Canyon on the right shoulder. Pleasant in rec. 5 80 westbound before Foothill Road couple vehicles, Sarah, but no lane strip locked. Julie devilish working. Q. E D. Thank you. Julie, and traffic support comes from European Sleep works. I'm Judy Woodruff on the next news our words to mark this moment we hear from the poet tapped to speak at Joe Biden's inauguration..
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"roman empire" Discussed on KDWN 720AM
"That in my opinion, anyway, should be put on Donald Trump. Obviously, the people who committed the violent acts are responsible. But I also believe those who enable Donald Trump and spread the misinformation and lies about how Democrats stole the election and that Joe Biden is not going to be a fair. It wasn't a fair election. Those people that have been enabled Donald Trump. Just a zit fault is Donald Trump. And when you're taking your we're taking your phone calls right now on that. Are you worried on Inauguration day? Do you think something bad is going to happen? And why I'm asking you that question And how much responsibility will you put on Donald Trump? And I hope I'm wrong. But if something horrible happens on Wednesday, which I hope it doesn't The number to call to 5753967022575396. So we had to cancel culture Maggot idiot who just called up. I'm talking to you, Robert right now, because you're a coward. Robert just called up. He spoke to our producer Shawn. He said. He's gonna report me to the FCC because I'm wishing death on people. So for Robert Who has crap for brains. Robert, I'd like you to listen to me. I said if Congressman or congresswoman We're responsible for aiding and abetting of what took place on Capitol Hill weaken half ago. I hope they get the death penalty. That's the first thing I said the second thing I said about Cove, it is that if you're one of those people that's not wearing a mask that refuses to social distance. If you get the virus, I won't feel sorry for you. If you die of the virus. I won't feel sorry for you. That's what I said. So, Robert, Go ahead and call the FCC and say, Hey, this radio host said he doesn't feel sorry for people who died of the virus who don't practice social distancing and wearing a mask. I'm sure the FCC will just throw me off the air. Go ahead and tell them I want representatives, Congressmen and congresswoman held responsible to the highest extent of the law. If they were a part of what took place on Capitol Hill Week and a half ago, Robert, You're a coward. You're not even you don't have the intellectual ability to even have a conversation with me. You call up and say you're gonna call the FCC. Guess what? I'm calling the maggot dope Association of the world and I'm going to tell them, Robert They're gonna force you to take off your Donald Trump Kneepads. I'm going to force them to take them off your knees. What do you think about that? Robert? Go ahead and complain to the FCC about that, too. You dope Funny. These are the same people who complain about cancel culture. Oh, my God. I don't like what Brian said on the air. He's trashing the orange turd. Oh, my God! Get that guy off the air. You people are so dumb. It's just unbelievable. Get something else to do with your time. Robert. Sounds like you need a hobby. Take those knee pads off, and then we'll have a conversation. Okay, Robert number to call 7022575396. All right, let's start off with Gary. Gary's first up here. What's up, Gary? Hey, there you are. What's a head cause my neighbor on God, I'm on it. I'm on national radio. Hey! Yes, it's local radio, not national local. Hang up, please. Gary. Who were you talking to? My neighbor. She needs a cigarette. I'm so sorry. I apologize. Now before all that a second. Can you put your neighbor on the phone? Yeah, I put my name. Please do well, I get her a cigarette. Put her on the phone. I want to talk to him so much. I wanna talk to hang up. Don't do not hang up. I'm not a coward. I want to talk to your neighbor. Put your neighbor on the phone. Yeah. What are we trying to win? No, no. Well, you just want a cigarette from Gary. You shouldn't smoke, though. It's not. I'm sorry. What's your name? Young lady. I don't know that you might be the F B. I know I'm not the FBI, but you're not breaking any laws smoking a cigarette. I'm not. What's your name? Michelle. So, Michelle. How do you know Gary? Because Gary calls into the show all the time. He's quite the character, isn't he here? He said you called to show too much. Inboard, sweetheart. He really he wouldn't hurt if he seems like a nice guy. I agree with you. He seems so are you Are you dating Gary or kicked, like? Is there anything going on there? You guys dating or what's What's the deal? Are we dating? Hey, He said he deployable did Gary he wants to talk? Are you guys live? Can you do me a favor? Gary. Gary needs a date. Will you go on a date with Gary? You want a date with me? Yeah, Yeah. Go on a date with Gary. Let me I'd just like to Gary. Okay. Put Jerry back on the phone. Take that letter. Take that lighter. Spoke to the secretary. Sorry, everybody. Gary. I'm trying to help you out, man. I'm trying to hook you up on a date. I'm trying to help you out. Gary, wait. I need to say something yet. Please do. Carrie. Carrie, Why don't you make a move and ask this nice? She sounds like a very nice lady. Why don't you ask her out to dinner or something? She sounds like a very nice lady Gary. You're changing the self interested? No, you You know your preposterous do fist and I'm not a fan of Yes, I am. Yes, I have. And I know you're a phantom. I feel very bad. Alright happened to you What you want to thank you? I think I'm going because of you. I'm going to get Um, At least I'm going. I'll take the vaccine. I'm also gonna get down those pneumonia shots. My health insurance company will pay for it Some, please. People on hold. Yes, please. Um, I'm not a Democrat. And I'm not a Republican. And I know if radio was possible during the end of the Roman Empire, this might it might sound something like this because we're going Really scarily down really bad road, Ana. I could talk about a lot of things. Well, Gary Gary Gary, let me just start off by saying this, and I always appreciate it when you call in instead of giving this nice, lovely lady, a cigarette, which which can hurt her health. Why don't you try by giving her a kiss on the cheek or kiss her hand or something Doing nice gesture like that and say I care about you. I don't want you to smoke cigarettes. Can you do that right now? Right now? Right now. Right now, I want you to give that I want you to give her a kiss on the cheek right now..
5 Minutes in Church History
The Birthplace of Saint Augustine
"World of augustine encircled the mediterranean sea spain and portugal. To the west france switzerland and the british isles to the north greece turkey israel to the north and to the east. Of course italy extending right into the sea the boot poised to kick a soccer ball also known as sicily and stretching all along the south egypt in the coast of africa. Agusan is from africa. Now that's the modern designation as are all of those country names. I just listed for you and the three hundred and four hundred. This was all rome. All of these peoples were roman or were to be considered roman and all of these places were part of the far flung roman empire augusta was born specifically in what was called new media the roman province of namibia. It is modern day algeria. His hometown was aghast. It was originally a village of nomadic. Berbers and back in the two hundred and one hundred species does the punic. Wars rome took control of this vast area as guston was born. Rome reached its zenith as augusta and lived roman declined and as guston died. Rome fell well. The gas was two thousand feet above sea level. It was surrounded by mountains that were another thousand feet or so and it was a very fertile plain. In fact the most fertile land in north africa it was a great place to settle and farm. Corn olives were mostly harvested and had a great economy one. A story noted how it became a retirement destination spot for roman soldiers. Did you ever wonder where the lions and bears and tigers in the roman amphitheatres came from. Will they were caught in the mountains and in the plains around agustin's hometown of the gas one hundred and seventy miles away to the east was the massive city of carthage. It was bustling with people and trade. It was second city only to rome and sixty miles or so to the northwest hippo regis. That city would come to play a significant role in the life of augustine. Near the end. Agustin's father was patricia. S a roman pagan. His mother was monica and devout and sometimes mystical christian much much more on her later as our book unfolds. Augustine had siblings. But we know very little about them he had at least one brother navigate. Send at least one sister and he likely had more brothers and sisters. But we just don't know that much about them at all. He was born on november thirteen. Three fifty four. This was a full generation of post. Constantine rome one. After constantine's conversion did you see the air quotes there. i put around network. that's important. This was the christian era at the end of the roman empire of course alongside of christianity. Plato's philosophy and the schools that followed him ruled the roost. That's important. It was a time of doctrinal advance. Augusta lived right in between the nineteen creed three twenty five and the cow sedonia creed of 451 that's important. He also lived during the time of heresies. They were springing up all over the place. Will that too is important if you were to ask a young augusta playing in the streets of the gassed. What do you want to do when you grow up. He would answer with one word. I wanna be
TED Talks Daily
Globalization is ending. What's next?
"We are at the end of globalization. We taken globalization for granted and as it drifts into history. We're going to miss. The second wave of globalization begun in the nineties and it delivered a great deal. Billions of people rose out of poverty. More impressively both prattled congress like vietnam and bangladesh increased by over six times in the last twenty years. The number of democracies rose in countries as diverse as chile malaysia. Estonia held free and fair elections. The role of women improved in many parts of the world. If you look at wages policy and companies like spain or access to education in countries like saudi arabia economically supply chains spread like webs around the world with car parts criss crossing borders before the final product. Coming into place is also changed the way we live now. it's changed our diets. It's changed how we communicate how we consume news. An entertainment how we travel and how we work but no globalization is on its deathbed. It's run into the limitations of its own. Success inequality a new record levels of business for example world to gdp is now pushing that was not seen since the polio wars. Two hundred years ago. Show us that. The advantages of globalization have been mis directed. The global financial crisis was the result of this mismanagement. And since then policymakers have done little but contain rather than solve the problems of our age. Now some highly globalised countries. Such as arlanda in the netherlands managed to improve income inequality in their countries by better distributing the bounties of globalization to higher taxes and social welfare programs. Other countries have not been as good russia. And especially the united states hub extreme levels of wealth in policy more extreme even during the time of the roman empire and this is convinced. Many people that globalization is against them and that the bounties of globalization have not been shared with the many a now in twenty twenty were confronted by the pandemic which has shaken the groaned under us on further exposed the frailties of the globalized world order in past international crisis. Most of them economic or geopolitical the hers usually ultimately been a sense of a committee to save the world leaders leading nations would come together but this time uniquely there has been no such collaboration against the backdrop of trade wars. Some countries like the. Us have outbid others for masks. There's been hacking of vaccine programs on common enemy. The pandemic has not been met with the common response to any hope that we might have a world vaccine or world. Recovery program is in vain. Snow worth the end over nira in history. An era that began with the fall of communism that set in train the flow of trade of finance of people under ideas
Miss Information: A Trivia Podcast
The Roman Empire (with Hannah McIntyre)
"This is wonderful because we've actually had some requests Yes for this this topic and neither of us have been able to bring ourselves. Haven't been have mustered up enough courage. I can I can do the pronunciations justice. Oh, see now that's bullshit. Tell. You land. Will probably bad. So don't worry. Yeah that didn't Stop Hannah. As I have never done a Roman episode either I don't know why I'm up here on my high horse but anyway. Thank you for this I'm so excited. Please Hannah we get away. All right well, the Roman empire was the Post Republican period of ancient Rome the generally accepted dates of the Roman Empire from twenty seven BC to four, seventy, six, eighty although I'll talk about some of the differing opinions about the exact dates. Later, I WANNA start off by laying some of the groundwork of how room operated before we get into the Roman Empire itself. This city and Kingdom of Rome was mythological founded around seven hundred and fifty BC with seven fifty three BC being the most commonly accepted date. It was founded by Romulus the city's namesake and his brother Ramos who are nursed by she will after being abandoned on the banks of the river. Tiber. ROMULUS ended up killing his brother during a dispute over which the seven hills to build the new city on and became the first. King of Rome who? Start. Yeah, just you know as you do murder brother side, you want to build your city on late normal things normal Italian things I would say. Yeah. That's. That's true. So. The Roman Kingdom was the earliest period in Roman history when seven kings ruled before it became a republic. So in five Oh nine BC, the monarchy was overthrown and the Roman Republic was established the majority of the former king's functions were passed onto two men named consuls who are elected to term of one year and could be prosecuted after council ships ended if abuse those powers Ooh I like that. Yeah. That's a little. GonNa Balance. Right there. Yeah exactly and under the Republic Room also began the practice of assigning dictators basically, if things got. So Harry that they're like now we can't risk multiple dudes working to solve this problem. Just let one guy decide everything. So elegant stunned, they could choose a person to be a dictator for six months for six months. That's Max dictator I think you know yeah, I like. It was their choice and also if whatever the dictator was chosen to carry out, usually it was war like somebody or something I if that finished earlier than the six months period, the dictator was actually expected to them be like, okay, that's it. I'm done and dislike resigned their dictatorship. Okay, that's also something that the Italians are really good about is giving power. and. They were actually fairly common until the end of the second punic war, which is the one with Hannibal and the elephants and actually did work pretty well late the Roman republic was basically constantly at war during this time since it went from essentially being a city sitting on a bunch of hills to being invaded by gulls then they took over the entire Italian peninsula and they defeated Carthage over the course of the three punic worse than they conquered all of modern bakeries and finally they had three different slave revolts with the last one being the one with Spartacus said everyone who's about and. So obviously that much war and that much rapid expansion meant there is like unrest in the air and it opened the door to a lot of military leaders to make their mark in the world, which is where we're gonNA start our main story about the empire. Julius. Caesar was never an emperor of Rome and died under the Roman Republic and not the Roman Empire that you cannot start talking about the Roman Empire without first talking about my boy JC.
Your Brain on Facts
It's the Little Things
"For want of a nail, the shoe was lost for want of a shoe. The horse was lost for want of a horse. The rider was lost for want of a writer the message was lost for want of the message the battle was lost for want of a battle, the kingdom was lost. Small things can have reverberating effects on history both good and bad. In fourteen fifty three, the great walled city of Constantinople fell it had withstood sieges for eleven hundred years. It had held off fire from the then state of the art cannons for weeks. The Byzantine said even Ford soldiers trying to tunnel under the wall autumn Turks were finally able to overrun the great city because someone left the door open. One of the many gates in the fourteen miles of wall had been left open during the night and the Ottomans flooded in. Killing Constantine the eleventh in the battle and bringing an end to the eastern Roman Empire. My Name's Moxy and this is your brain on facts. It was a freezing Christmas night in Trenton. New Jersey during the revolutionary war. The English Colonel Johann Gottlieb Rall. Commander. Of a mercenary infantry regiment of fourteen hundred has seen soldiers from Germany sat down to a good supper and an evening of entertainment. He and his men were celebrating their recent victories over George Washington's volunteer army, and of course, the Christmas holiday. Safe from the bitter cold and the pelting sleet inside a wealthy merchants home that they had commandeered. They relaxed safe in the assumption that no one in their right mind would possibly try to cross the Delaware River at night in a blinding winter storm. Someone challenged role to a game of chess, and before long he was deep in tactics and strategy. There was a knock at the door. And exhausted young. Messenger boy came in bearing a note from loyalist farmer. It's important to remember that about a third of colonists still consider themselves to be British and didn't want the revolution. Raw paid the boy little notice took the note and put it in his coat pocket without opening it. That pocketed piece of paper would cost him and the war effort nearly. Two hours earlier and ten miles away. Washington's men had begun being ferried across the icy Delaware. River. It took over ten hours to get all twenty four hundred men over to the New Jersey side. The conditions were so adverse five men froze to death. Then began the arduous march to Trenton in the dark. The plan had been to attack the town from all sides before dawn, but the troops didn't arrive until eight am. During the attack which lasted only an hour forty of the German. Henson's were killed and the remaining thousand surrendered. Colonel was mortally wounded. When his body was found the unopened note warning of Washington's crossing was still in his pocket. If role had read it, he would surely have had his gross of professional soldiers prepared. He allowed his pride and the weather to lull him into thinking his enemy was not a threat. Had he won the battle he may well have killed George Washington James Madison James Monroe John Marshall Aaron Burr and Andrew. Hamilton The. Second, most common premise in alternate history circles behind what if Germany won World War Two is what if the south one the American civil war? Two pieces of paper dropped in a farmer's field almost brought that about. Confederate General Robert E. Lee. Whose statue in the middle of my hometown of Richmond, Virginia has recently been given the historical context. It's so sorely needed. In the form of tons of. Graffiti. Issued Special Order one ninety one during the Maryland campaign before the Battle of Antietam. In the order lead divided his army, delineating the routes and roads to be taken and the timing for the units to reconvene. Adjutant Robert H Chilton penned copies of the letter endorsed them in Lee's name. Staff. Officers distributed the copies to various confederate generals. General Thomas Stonewall Jackson in turn copied the document for one of his subordinates, major general, D H Hill who was to exercise independent command as the rearguard. A Union soldier Corporal Barton W Mitchell of the twenty seven. Th Indiana volunteers found two pieces of paper bundled with three cigars as he marched across a farm in Maryland an area recently vacated by Hill and his men after they had camped there. The order provided the Union army with valuable information, concerning the army of Northern Virginia's movements and campaign plans. Upon receiving lease lost order. Major General George McClellan leading the Union army of the Potomac proclaimed. Here is a piece of paper with which if I cannot whip Bob Ely, I will be willing to go home. He immediately moved his army in hopes of foiling lease battle plans. When Lee heard a copy of special order one, ninety, one was missing he. He knew his scattered army was vulnerable and rushed to reunite his units Antietam Creek near Sharp's Berg. Lee's troops arrived tired hungry and many were sick. The Battle of Antietam, would go down as the bloodiest battle of the American civil war with casualties recorded as twenty, three, thousand dead wounded, which was usually as good as dead or unaccounted for over the course of the half day battle. That's nearly two thousand soldiers in our one every two seconds. When night fell both sides ceased fire together, their dead and wounded. The next day Lee began the painstaking job of moving his ravage troops back Virginia. Here, some scholars argue another solitary decision had far reaching consequences. Despite having the advantage. McClellan. Allowed Lee to retreat without resistance. From his point of view, he'd accomplished his mission by forcing Lee's troops from Maryland and preventing confederate win on union soil. President, Lincoln however thought McClellan missed a great opportunity to potentially end the war three years earlier than it ultimately would.
BrainStuff
What Ruined City Lies Under Tunisia's Waters?
"Episode from our former host Christian Sagar. This one is about the ruins of a lost Roman city off the coast of Northern, Africa and evidence about what led to its loss a. plus a more fishy finding. FEHB rain stuff Christian Sager here archaeologists recently discovered more than fifty acres twenty hector's of Roman ruins off the coast of northeastern. Tunisia. That's a small country on the northern tip of Africa and situated on the Mediterranean Sea the discovery has researchers believing they may have finally found some convincing evidence that the city of Neapolis not to be confused with the Italian city of the same name that Neapolis was wiped out by a natural disaster about a thousand, six hundred and fifty years ago in addition to streets and monuments. Researchers found about one hundred tanks that would have been used to produce a garum that's a fish based fermented condiment commonly consumed in ancient Rome. In an email, how stuff works spoke to Carlos F Norrena associate professor of history at the University of California Berkeley he says that the discovery is important because it lends support to the theory that Tunisia Neapolis was submerged by a soon Nami in the fourth century. That's a useful reminder that environmental catastrophe is not only a phenomenon of the modern world scientists wrote in a twenty thirteen study in the journal Nature that as soon Nami was caused by an earthquake that occurred in three, sixty, five C E in Crete. There's no sure fire way to know the extent of the quake since measuring tools didn't exist at the time, but scientists believe to separate tremors happened in. Succession and the larger one had a magnitude of eight point zero on the Richter scale. The resulting soon Nami destroyed about fifty thousand homes and killed approximately five thousand people in the city of Alexandria Egypt and because the geological fault at the center of the earthquake was located off the coast of Crete that Greek island was actually lifted up in certain areas by as much as thirty three feet or ten meters. Historian. Honest Mercer lineas recorded the event and the newly found ruins reveal that there's much more to the story. NERINA says, the discovery also illuminates the economy of Roman. North Africa and provides further evidence for the popularity of Garum in the Roman Diet. The detail is significant. Garum was a big deal throughout the Roman Empire and as Italian archaeologist Claudio Geraldino has NPR it played a major role in the society's economy. He says that according to the Roman writers, a good bottle of garum could cost something like five hundred dollars today but that they also had garum for slaves that extremely cheap. So it is comparable to a modern amenity like. For instance, the underwater findings of Neapolis and it's abundant manufacturing materials indicate that the city was a major historical hub Neapolis, which means new city
Software Engineering Daily
Facebook Dialogue Platform with Stephen Roller
"Stephen Roller welcome to the show. Thanks for having me. You work on dialogue research at facebook dialogue research. I. Think of as a better way of describing chat bots. So I may refer to chat bots and Dialogue Research interchangeably during this episode. Why are chat bots useful? I think it's a longstanding dream in the field of artificial intelligence and computer science. Right? We've we've always had the dream of what if I just talked to my computer like I talked to other people. In converse with them, they would know what are my intentions? Why am I asking them this? What can they do to make my life better or help me along and you know? Programming is fun I love programming, but you know it'd be nice to just communicate with. Computers as well. And what about you? Personally, why are you personally interested in chat bots? Have you pursued this line of work of of all the different kinds of computer science research you could be doing? Yeah. You know I sort of stumbled into this area join fair after my phd where I did work in natural language processing but my my work, my background work was like a little bit more linguistically oriented focused on like the meanings of words a little bit more like what can computers just about language rather than how do we teach computers to understand language? And so you know when I joined. Fair. I was looking for for projects to join projects to collaborate on. So I gave dialogue a shot and it turns out to be a really great ren for me a mix of novel research using using the greatest and latest neural networking and machine learning techniques as well as a bunch of interesting software engineering problems and opportunities for Staley and things like this. What are the domains in which conversational agents or chat bots are actually useful today? What are the places where they're useful versus the places where they're not so useful? Meaning like, what's the? What did they do major? We've actually conquered rather than the ones we're stumbling. Yeah I think you know obviously, you've seen a wave of digital assistance and I think that work is very exciting. a lot of what we focused on in dial in par lay in the dialogue research at facebook is on open domain chat bots, which are chat bots that can talk to you about like literally anything and they're usually not focused on. Accomplishing tasks for you rather like the goal is just to have a conversation with you about anything for as long as possible. So that's primarily where we work and I think we've seen a lot of exciting advances over the past couple years to where I think if you were to try some of these newer chat bots that have come out in the past year you, you'd probably be really impressed with like Oh. Wow. This was further than I. Expect. So I think you see commercially is a lot of digital assistants a lot of success in this a lot of customer service type things when I'm really excited about when I think we've you know where things have made big strides in an big strides in the past year is on these open domain chat bots can actually talk to you about anything. Really so as in I can sit down with a chap today and say, Hey, what's the weather and what is this spot on my skin and recommend me a restaurant that looks appealing. I can do I can ask all of these things of a chat bot today. Yeah. I would put those still in the category of like task oriented Tech Chat bots where there's like some goal in mind like you know answering medical questions or tell me about the. Weather when I really tend to work on and what I'm excited about is these chat bots right so rather instead you might ask what's your favorite chess move and it might go into into detail about like what's its favorite move and why that is or what's your opinion of the fall of the Roman. Empire let's let's debate that. So it's it's it's less about you know what can you do for Maine and more about like let's enjoy the experience together. So, can you give a few more descriptions of what a general purpose chat Bot would be doing? Yeah I think the end game here either. You know wear a true general purpose chapman should do both of these things right? Like if I ask it to to. But Mia, calendar and by then it should absolutely help me out with that where I focused my research is the social part. and. So I think we should see a mix of. The box that we've been developing really focused on I'm having a few different behaviors that I don't think you tend to see any sort of assistant on type chat bots they have consistent persona so they'll have like personalities like. I love basketball or I have. Friends in in the tech industry or something like this, and they can use this information like. Consistently referred to it. You know one of the other attributes that chat bots working on developing and believe Ms really important is empathy bright. So a chat Bot should understand you know as as it's talking with you, what's your mental state like how are you feeling and respond emotionally appropriately to that so no if you say something like my just ran away, you know the chat bots should restall on appropriately with something like, oh, I'm really sorry to hear that have. You say something like I just got a promotion than the Chat Bot should respond Oh. That's great to hear. Congratulations. So responding emotionally appropriately is a really important characteristic of a of an open domain chap on the last one is general knowledge. So you know I think when people talk to to chat bots, they expected to know things about the world some of that's encyclopedia some of its common commonsense reasoning but you know if I ask what's the tallest building in America? You know I sort of expected to be able to have this have this information available to it and be able to answer some questions like that or even integrate this information in in common and common dialogue just oh by the way you know what's what's interesting or you know funny story about that sort of thinks. So consistent personality empathy and a knowledge about the world. These are all things. I think are really important in general demand. You know Geno Purpose Chat Bot. Empathy you mentioned empathy s one of these things that requires some maintenance of context as to what is going on in the conversation. The Chat Bot needs to be able to acknowledge the perhaps sad state or happy state of the person. It's Inter locating with tell me about context how does a Chat Bot retain and understand context in a conversation? Yeah there's a few different ways that people go about it. So one of the more classic ways that people will do and approaches that people will take is they'll do something off dialogue state tracking. So you have like some information about the dialogue like, Oh, the users asking about a restaurant and they wanted to be on fifth street right and you'll have this as some sort of state. That you could do say like some sort of database query about and help them then like when you're doing dialogue research or billion Chapa, the task becomes a lot of like keeping track of that state and updating that state as the conversation goes on. The way that we often approach it is a much more like role neural network fashion. So we just like input all the dialogue context all history as one big stream. You know sort of same person. One said this person to says that person one said this person to said back? What do you say next? So we just treat things as as raw strings and habit. Input that in the model has to figure out Oh, what do we do with fat? How do I respond? Who said what all this has to be from scratch? I'd like to get into. A little bit more of a conversation about facebook. So if you imagined facebook in five years, what are the tasks that you envision dialogue models fulfilling for facebook? That's an excellent question I. Think you know there's all sorts of places where we're dialogue can be helpful to our users. We already have this product called portal. which is a a really excellent product lets you make video calls with people. In. One of the things you can you can do, you can already say like hey. You know call mom. And it starts dialing up on. And that super? Nice, you know some of the other things might be no. As I might have an assistant on on Messenger that that's helping me keep track of what's going what's going on with my friends. You know I might say a assistant you know where the latest updates on my friends and they could. Integrate that information. And you know look through my my news feed for me and say, Oh, Hey, your friend Jim has new photo. He got married right Oh that'd be really cool. So, I think there's a lot of places for for dialogue to be part of FACEBOOK PRODUCTS You work on par lay, which is spelled P. A. R. L. A.. I. What Is Parlay? Parlay is a platform for doing dialogue research. It's an open source platform. It's gotten over one hundred contributors and it's it's got you would need to do to dialogue research so whether that's a collect data set or I want to train a new model, and there's all these data sets out there and I just WANNA use those without without trying anything. I want to create a new new model and I need to compare two baselines compared to other other approaches of people tried before I can just sort try those those different models. It's got a model. Do you know what are the pre-trade models somebody else's released in leverage those when building minute chat? Bot and then it's got everything you will need. To also evaluate a chat, Bot. So you know once you have Chapada unlike a lot of areas in I research it's it's not always clear how to evaluated except the have people talk to it. So we've got all the tools that you need to connector Chapada, Amazon Mechanical Turk and have people chat with it and you give evaluations or give. Performance rating instincts like this. A little bit deeper into the problems that parlay solves for researchers that are using it. Yeah I think quite a few different problems especially in all those all those different spaces you know when you're you're a researcher and you want to create a new data set that you know, let's say you want to create a new data said that teaches the model how to how to have empathy. The thing you're going to do is have humans talk and exhibit empathy and annotate their their their utterances with this sort empathetic information. So we have tools so that you can like creek quickly spin up user interface where you can have that chat where you can annotate that information and sort of build what you need for that. So similarly with evaluation you know I need to connect with the Amazon Mechanical Turk and had people evaluate. You know I don't WanNa have to spend so much time focused on building the UI of this tool or dealing with the engineering of connecting Amazon Mechanical Turk impairing humans together, I. So abstract way from you and when we do that is by treating all. In the in the world as agents so whether you're a data set or Talking to it on Mechanical Turk or human talking to it at your local keyboard or a AI agent everything is agent. So we treat them all the same. This gives us really nice distractions to work with so that we can sort of plug in AI model in place of a human or plug human in place of the model really easily. Parlay makes available a wide set of data sets through its API. How does parley use these different data sets? Yeah, we have over one hundred data sets in parlay. Some of them are from our group some of them are from external groups. And so one of the things we really focus on as a first class feature in. If I want to train the AI that exhibits multiple behaviors. I'm a train, a multiple data sets at the same time. So you it's really easy to sort of say. Okay. That set a data set the set see in start training three of them at the same time and get a model that can do all three of these behaviors on. So that's sort of first class functionality within within parlay. When we were talking earlier about having a model that exhibited the consistent personality empathy in knowledge, we did this with a sort of multitask training as it's called where we train on all different data sets. So if you're a new user or new researcher who wants to come into dialogue, you can sort of take the stock wouldn't data sets out there already and just start utilizing them as needed and if you wanna mix and match behaviors? Hey, no problem. described. The workflow for training chat with parlay. Yeah. So we have a lot of it's very command line, heavy utility or command line heavy platform. So if you want to train a new model, it can be as simple as calling the train model command from the command line and you just sort of say are here the tasks I want here's the model. The model that I want what's the model architecture and things like this? And you know here's the learning rate and all the other neural network parameters and you hit go and start training. alanna researchers went to do a more sophisticated, maybe make a custom architecture or make a custom data set and it's really easy to just sort of build only the part of the data set you need or build only the what's special about your model. She might go right a little bit of custom code utilizing are sort of abstract base classes and things like this. And you'll be off on your way training, your special model, and if you don't WanNa mess with data, you don't have to mess with data you can just use the existing data sets. If you don't WanNa mess for modeling, you don't have the mess with modeling you can just just the data in and start training
5 Minutes in Church History
The Plague of Justinian I
"Welcome back to another episode of five minutes in Church history. On this episode, we're talking about a very dark moment in church history and history the plague of Justinian. The first first let's talk about just in the first he was born in four eighty seven. He came to be Roman emperor in five, twenty seven and he reigned until his death in five sixty three at the time of becoming Roman emperor the barbarian tribes controlled much of what was the Roman Empire The ostrogoths controlled Rome in the boot of Italy that extends down into the Mediterranean Sea the visigoths controlled Spain, the vandals controlled what was formerly North Africa the Roman empire was a fraction and a mere shadow of its former self just Indian ruled from capital at Constantinople. He was determined to bring back the glory that once was the Roman Empire. To do so he would need to launch military campaigns to the east into the Iberian Peninsula to the south and the vandals to the West and the ostrogoths into the north. He had to launch military campaign literally in every direction. And he was very successful after a decade or so of military campaigns warfare. Then in five forty, two Justin faced a new invisible enemy. Well, we'll get to that in a moment first a few more points on just in the first, he is known as giving us the Codex Justinian us it's also sometimes called the Corpus juris civilised. This is the body of civil law. Someone took the time to count it. It's somewhere around the neighborhood one million words. It was a massive rule of law to govern the Roman Empire contains laws on criminal and civil matters on trade, but it also controls laws regarding heresy and Orthodoxy, and even laws regulating paganism. Another thing about just in the first is that he is the creator of the Huggy Sophia he was not the architect though he had significant conversations with the architect and was very influential in the plans but it was under his watch that the Haganah Sophie was built from five, thirty, two to five, thirty seven the old basilica had fallen during riots in that city and just in use the occasion to build what was the biggest church the Roman Empire ever saw its length was two, hundred, sixty, nine feet. Its width was two hundred and forty feet and extended a height of one hundred and eighty feet. It was a massive structure. The HAGIA Sofia. Well, that's just any in the first. Now, briefly on his plague in five, forty to the bubonic plague broke out. This is the your cineas pestis. What came to be known as the black plague. It would come again in the thirteen hundreds and it would manifest throughout the Middle Ages and the time of the reformation. Back in five, forty, two, it is believed to have started in Egypt. This plague then carried on merchant ships too many nations and to three continents. Africa Europe Asia it is credited as the first pandemic in recorded history. It brought all of the efforts of Justinian one to a stop it ended the military campaigns devastated the economy. It ended up killing millions at its height. It would take five thousand lives a day in the city of Constantinople alone. Even. Just any in the first contract. Did it. But he survives one of the stories from that time PRA copious notes of the effect of the plague on the people it caused them to shake off the unrighteousness of their daily lives and practice the duties of religion with diligence but sadly, he also notes. That as soon as they were rid of the disease, they went right back to their old ways. Well, that's just any in the first, and that's the justinian plague five, forty two