Word: juliuses
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...become fetid and knotted with traffic. Local rulers became so fed up that they declared: "The circulation of the people should not be hindered by numerous litters and noisy chariots." It was an early salvo in what would become an endless, thankless, unwinnable war. Around the same time, Julius Caesar introduced the first off-street parking laws. In A.D. 125, a limit was placed on the number of vehicles that could enter Rome. For as long as there have been roads, it seems, there have been crowds of swearing, sweaty drivers - and schemes to get rid of them...
...Like Julius Caesar's Gaul, the ice that covers Antarctica is divided into three parts. There is the small ice of the Antarctic Peninsula. There is the big ice that covers the solid, continental block of East Antarctica to a depth, in places, of nearly three miles. And there is the middle-size ice of West Antarctica, much of which lies below sea level, so that its outermost fringes come into potentially perilous contact with seawater...
...Half Vatican, half Disney World, the Holy See is a particularly fitting home for Caodaism, a kaleidoscopic faith that combines all the major world religions and counts Julius Caesar, Thomas Jefferson and Vladimir Lenin among its saints. Since its recognition by Vietnam's communist government in 1997, Caodaism has flourished, and now tourists flock to its mecca in Tay Ninh province, about 90 kilometers northwest of Ho Chi Minh City. Visitors can wander the gaudy halls of the Holy See in search of enlightenment?or an eyeful. Murals depict the sacred eye of God in a triangle and recreate...
...person who addresses issues that are high on the public agenda and writes in a way that his material or her materials are accessible to a broad audience” is a public intellectual, says Geyser University Professor William Julius Wilson...
Gekas certainly dates himself. In their first TV debate last week, Holden accused Gekas of voting to eliminate Social Security cost-of-living increases, and the senior incumbent dismissed the vote as having occurred "back when Julius Caesar was in command." (Actually it was Ronald Reagan.) But Gekas, a former prosecutor, showed his vigor in the face-off, interjecting his pet themes--like his "perfect" 14-out-of-14 vote rating from the Farm Bureau...