THIS DAY IN ANCIENT HISTORY

ante diem xvi kalendas decembres

• ludi Plebeii (day 13)
• 42 B.C. -- birth of the future emperor Tiberius

::Sunday, November 16, 2003 9:30:34 AM::
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NUNTII: AWOTV

The weekly version of the AWOTV listings are now available ....

::Sunday, November 16, 2003 9:27:54 AM::
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NUNTII: Latest Explorator available

Issue 6.29 of Explorator has just been posted ...

::Sunday, November 16, 2003 9:05:22 AM::
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AWOTV: On TV Today

4.00 p.m. |HINT| England's Great Wall
"Stretching roughly 80 miles across northern England, Hadrian's
Wall split the country in two, serving as a barrier against Pict
marauders. Did the Roman army build the wall to protect their
new province, or as some historians argue, to build-up the
phenomenal ego of Emperor Hadrian, which was nearly as big as
the wall itself?"

7.00 p.m. |HINT| Time Team: Wadden, Dorset
"When Time Team descended on Wadden in Dorset, England, they
outnumbered residents--the village consists of 5 houses. They
were invited by neighbors David James and Grace Brooks, who
found a huge amount of old pottery in their shared garden during
excavations for a septic tank. The pottery dated from Medieval,
Roman, and Iron Age days. The name Wadden derives from Wode Hill
and dates back a 1,000 years, but what lies beneath the handful
of houses that remain? Time Team has 3 days to find out."

HINT = History International

::Sunday, November 16, 2003 9:03:10 AM::
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CHATTER: Sporadic Posts today

We're nursing a virus (the human kind), so I suspect posts will be rather sporadic today ...

::Sunday, November 16, 2003 9:02:17 AM::
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