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...POST Job has the benefits of being in Rome without an unruly amount of work
...leisurely stroll than a hike, the walks usually run two hours, and at a price of 5[Pounds](about $7.50), and 3.5[Pounds] for seniors and students, they are a great bargain in this pricey country. And they are catching on beyond England. Similar excursions are thriving in Paris, Rome, Prague, New York City and San Francisco...
...rule, from 37 B.C. to 4 B.C., of Herod the Great. Herod is one of ancient history's extraordinary figures. Ten times married, a serious drinker and a half-Jew who was half-trusted by his subjects, he played the superpower politics of his day consummately. In 63 B.C., Rome became Judea's ruler, succeeding Babylonia, Persia, Greece and the Jews themselves. Herod, who hailed from the neighboring province of Idumea (which included part of today's West Bank), won and maintained his position as the empire's proxy King of the Jews by allying himself successively with Julius Caesar...
...Rome reserved crucifixion primarily for capital crimes and discontinued the practice in the 4th century. Historians learned considerably more about its specifics in 1968, when the remains of a man crucified in his mid 30s were discovered north of Jerusalem with a 7-in. iron nail still embedded in the heel. The state of the bones indicated that the condemned man's arms were outstretched and that his feet had been placed sideways, with the nail driven first through a small block of wood and then through both heels into the cross. Later the wood block would prevent the feet...
...Street guy who kept offering to "take care of me" and making me look at his date. And I couldn't say yes to the guy with a bandage on his nose who wanted a sympathy ticket for his "deviated septum" surgery. I turned down people who came from Rome, Paris, Greece, Miami and "all the way from the Upper West Side." I was on so much of a power trip I sent away Puff Daddy's bodyguards. That may have been a bad call...