Word: germaniae
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...such forecasts of the future are told only in retrospect. Nostradamus wrote in 1555: "Beasts wild with hunger will cross the rivers/The greater part of the battle will be against Hister/He will cause great men to be dragged in a cage of iron/When the son of Germania obeys no law." But nobody stepped forth to warn Germans to be on guard against somebody named Hister or Hitler or something along those lines. It was only after Hitler's Germany had devastated Europe that students of prognostication noticed the references to "Hister" and "Germania" and credited Nostradamus with foreknowledge of World...
...wind. It's a hauntingly serene image, ghostly and tranquil, the kind of shot a director like Terrence Malick would undoubtedly be enraptured with. And those few seconds are about as long as it takes for Ridley Scott's adrenaline-charged combat epic to hit overdrive, rapidly shifting to Germania, where the seemingly unstoppable Roman army (a second century equivalent to the Yankees) is waiting to do bloody battle with the rebellious locals. All eyes are trained upon the formidable General Maximus (Russell Crowe), a man of impressive stature and rock-hard determination, who commands his troops to give...
...Adams/Boston Beer Company 30 Germania St. at Bismarck St. Boston (617) 368-5000 T: Orange Line, Stonybrook. Tours: Thursday and Friday, 2 p.m.; Saturday, 1 and 2 p.m. The tour is free, but the $1 suggested donation goes to Youth Enrichment Services, a local charity. Directions: From Stonybrook in Jamaica Plain, turn left on Boylston St., walk two blocks and take a right on Bismark St.; the brewery is straight ahead...
...beer aficionados out there, when the local bar doesn't cut it, head to the Boston Beer Museum and Visitors Center. Over two hundred years of beer history is packed into this building, and they may even be generous with samples. 30 Germania St. 522-9080. 2 p.m. $1 admission...
...Suspect) to be resourceful. Instead of a lavish (and possibly campy) physical re- creation of the new Greater Germany, he suggests it in small, swift strokes. Tour buses carrying Western reporters on their first visit since the war roll past billboards touting one-world harmony and vacations in "Paris, Germania." (There's also an ad for the Beatles; those Hamburg clubs apparently survived.) The country is repressive and regimented, but the "Heil Hitlers" have grown routine and less convincing; the bureaucrats are cynical and restive. The SS and the Gestapo are at odds, like the FBI and the CIA during...