The Fate of Rome: Climate, Disease, and the End of an Empire
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A sweeping new history of how climate change and disease helped bring down the Roman Empire Here is...
Gladiator (2000)
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A man robbed of his name and his dignity strives to win them back, and gain the freedom of his...
Amazons, Wives, Nuns, and Witches: Women and the Catholic Church in Colonial Brazil, 1500-1822
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The Roman Catholic church played a dominant role in colonial Brazil, so that women's lives in the...
Skull's Vengeance (Curse of Clansmen and Kings #4)
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A Celtic warrior queen must do the impossible—defeat her sorcerer half-brother and claim the...
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David McK (3816 KP) rated Ben-Hur (2016) in Movies
Nov 20, 2019
And this is pretty much a straight re-make of that move; pared down somewhat and with Jack Huston's Judah Ben-Hur unable to hold a candle to Heston's take on the same character.
We do, however, still have the same main points from the earlier movie: early 30s AD setting in Jerusalem. Judah forced to become a galley slave after he is wrongly accused of treason by (here) his Roman foster-brother, chariot-racing, his family stricken with Leprosy, miraculous cure following Jesus' crucifixion ...
Handmade Interiors
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Make your home uniquely yours with Handmade Interiors, the one-stop guide to creating your own...
Archaeologies of Colonialism: Consumption, Entanglement, and Violence in Ancient Mediterranean France
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This book presents a theoretically informed, up-to-date study of interactions between indigenous...
Gardening Women: Their Stories from 1600 to the Present
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From Flora, Roman goddess of plants, to today's gardeners at Kew, women have always gardened. Women...
Pocket Museum: Ancient Rome
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If all the portable artifacts of Ancient Rome were in a single location, the lives of students,...