Tag: Rome

Ancient Rome Celegrated!

Italy: Rome Celebrates 2,777th Birthday! (22.4.2024)

“We didn’t plan to come to Rome for the city’s birthday but seeing all this is a great way to spend part of a day, taking it all in,” Loria told Xinhua. “I especially enjoyed seeing the contrasts, the period costumes in a modern city.”

Though the origins of Sunday’s celebrations date back centuries, the events have caught on with travellers as tourism in Italy has recovered from the setbacks of the coronavirus pandemic.

There are no official estimates for the number of people who participated in Sunday’s activities, media reports said the city had deployed extra police for security and traffic control. Hotel bookings were higher than usual for the weekend, media reports said.

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Emails: History & Origins of “Gregorian Chant”! (21.3.2024)

At the time I thought this was Gregorian Chant – but given that Greece is an Orthodox country – this analysis cannot be correct. Therefore, my question is this – did Pope Gregory I (540-604 CE) copy an already existing Orthodox Christian (monastic) practice – falsely claiming he had invented it – presenting this to the world as the Catholic practice of “Gregorian Chant”? 

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Bryn "An army of Gypos Shouting Abuse!"

Turdtowns: Twerton in Bath [Somerset]! (15.3.2024)

One tactic the Local Councils use to assist the tyranny of private land-lords is to have disputed properties declared “unfit for habitation” – and begin eviction and/or demolition procedures. Once tenants (or even “Owners”) are out of the properties – quite often the Local Council hands back the property to the Landlord and STOP all punitive action – as if the condemned buildings have suddenly repaired themselves! I know this because it happened to my parents – who live in Torquay. The rule of law only matters when the Local Authorities want us to do something – the rule of law is quietly ignored when it clashes with the corrupt will of the rich!

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Alexamenos Graffito: Was the Earliest Depiction of Jesus Christ – a Crucified Man with a Donkey’s Head? (6.9.2023)

Although this object originates from the Roman graffiti scratched into the plaster of a wall found in a room of a building (the ‘domus Gelotiana’ or ‘House of Gelotian’) – situated in the Palatine Hill area of Rome (modern Italy – the object subsequently being relocated to the Palatine Museum) – it could be that the ‘artist’ was inspired by the (197 CE) writing of Tertulliani or that Tertulliani was motivated in 197 CE by the already existing graffiti. A third scenario is that Tertulliani and the graffiti are unrelated – but that both represent an underlying and common reality – the essence of which both are referencing. Depending upon the exact date – the ‘Alexamenos Graffiti’ may well be the ‘earliest’ depiction relating to Christianity – albeit in a derogatory form. The crude Greek text scratched under the cross reads ‘ΑΛΕ ΞΑΜΕΝΟϹ ϹΕΒΕΤΕ ΘΕΟΝ’ – which seems to say ‘Alexamenos Ingests [his preferred] God’.

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1936: Did Winston Churchill Grant An Audience to Catholic Fascist (and Future Belgium “SS” Volunteer) – Léon Degrelle? (15.8.2023)

The claim that Degrelle was granted an audience with Churchill comes from the dustcover to Degrelle’s biographical account of his time in the Waffen SS during its invasion of the USSR. I can only find one or two other references which seem to be quoting this same source. It might be that the Churchill apologists do not want the general public knowing that Winston was a firm admirer of Hitler, and if the meeting with Degrelle is anything to go by, something of an ardent fascist himself! As for the despicable Degrelle himself, he had his Belgian citizenship stripped from him, and had to live out his life in exile in Spain. In his book he quite happily admits to committing ‘atrocities’ in the USSR, and is open about why he thought Hitler was ‘right’ to eradicate ALL inferior races! A true pice of ‘sh’t by any one’s standard!

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