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Old 02-24-15, 03:47 PM   #1
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What is historical correct?

Saw a history program about these Gladiators and in this program, a historian said that these pictures of the empire or the people stretching their hands out with the thumbs down was incorrect...the correct procedure-according to this historian-was the thumb near the throat and going from the one side to the other

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Old 02-24-15, 03:55 PM   #2
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What is historical correct? Markus
Well you're probably right but when having fun at our options are limited: .... ....
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Well you're probably right but when having fun at our options are limited: .... ....
Of course-let the imagination flow

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Gladiators were almost like the football player of our time, cost and value great. Losing one is almost a losing Ronaldo, Messi, etc. And the "owners"/sponsors were not very please if that happened.
Of course, the condemned men were to fight to the death or be kill in it.
I am sorry, but I am talking about memory, I have a great book about Gladiators, with great explanations about the first games and so on, the first classes of it and the new ones that began to emerge.
The ones that only fought beast, the several variations of the games/fights. Have to look for it and post here the link or cover.

Fun fact about Commodus, he loved to be a gladiator, who can not like a ruler that decapitated running ostrich with arrows?
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They used to think that the essence of a gladiator gave some of his vigor. So they'd collect the used olive oil that a gladiator had used to bathe (in those days they used tepidarium and fridiaruim to open then close the pores then oil was used with a scraper on the skin to absorb the grime.) This was sold at a price and some women even well uh they acquired other forms of essence.

Anyway I use that tepidarium/frididarium method when I shower sans olive oil though I've used olive oil soap anyway if you've not tried it you should feels very refreshing. Tepid first then frigid and the type that takes your breath also makes you more resistant to changes in tempature like walking in from cold to warm which is a cause of colds.

I'm not selling my essence though to be clear.
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Old 02-25-15, 01:37 PM   #6
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I'm not selling my essence though to be clear.
Purity of Essence,

I first became aware of it, Steelhead, during the physical act of love... Yes, a profound sense of fatigue, a feeling of emptiness followed. Luckily I — I was able to interpret these feelings correctly. Loss of essence. I can assure you it has not recurred, Steelhead. Women, er, women sense my power, and they seek the life essence. I do not avoid women, Steelhead...but I do deny them my essence.

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Someone call Putin, I think Platapus is about to bomb Russia
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Purity of Essence,

I first became aware of it, Steelhead, during the physical act of love... Yes, a profound sense of fatigue, a feeling of emptiness followed. Luckily I — I was able to interpret these feelings correctly. Loss of essence. I can assure you it has not recurred, Steelhead. Women, er, women sense my power, and they seek the life essence. I do not avoid women, Steelhead...but I do deny them my essence.

You'll never crack the return to base code so don't bother trying. The Soviets err Russians must be stopped. I knew that was a Russian code name Platapus it didn't fool me. Now off with you while I prepare my mine shaft which has a fluoridization proof water supply. POE EOP
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