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Some Greek lawyers are threatening to sue the filmmakers of 'Alexander' for suggesting that Alexander may have been bi. (Oi pink rock.) Lyric on the Cauldron suspects that the Greek Orthodox Church may be involved with the suit.
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dhole. How can I resist a song with lyrics that go "Just take a point called Z in the complex plane / Let Z1 be Z squared plus C / And Z2 is Z1 squared plus C / And Z3 is Z2 squared plus C and so on . . ."
Accepting Jesus into your gaming group. Fromlarksdream. "Doesn't the entire concept of this game offend Your Christian sensibilities?" "Nah. I'm Jewish."
Fear the Karate Chimp. (Found in comments to a recent post ofqarylla's, requesting entertainment and/or monkeys. Posted by enochs_fable.)
Erm. It's a matter of leverage. And center of gravity. (Frombrooksmoses.)
Aztec astrology. Frommicheinnz.
Electroluminescence in pickles. Posted to rasfc by Neil Barnes.
Peepshow gnomes. No, really. (I had to show this toblacktarrant, and it occurred to me belatedly that it oughta go in this list.)
I know I have a package of henna around here somewhere that I dedicated to Set in March. So why the hell can't I find it at this point in time, one in which I want to redye my hair and am able to do so?
Bah. Broke my sleep again by being sickish.
Nerd rock, as described by
dhole. How can I resist a song with lyrics that go "Just take a point called Z in the complex plane / Let Z1 be Z squared plus C / And Z2 is Z1 squared plus C / And Z3 is Z2 squared plus C and so on . . ."Accepting Jesus into your gaming group. From
larksdream. "Doesn't the entire concept of this game offend Your Christian sensibilities?" "Nah. I'm Jewish."Fear the Karate Chimp. (Found in comments to a recent post of
qarylla's, requesting entertainment and/or monkeys. Posted by enochs_fable.)Erm. It's a matter of leverage. And center of gravity. (From
brooksmoses.)Aztec astrology. From
micheinnz.Electroluminescence in pickles. Posted to rasfc by Neil Barnes.
Peepshow gnomes. No, really. (I had to show this to
blacktarrant, and it occurred to me belatedly that it oughta go in this list.)I know I have a package of henna around here somewhere that I dedicated to Set in March. So why the hell can't I find it at this point in time, one in which I want to redye my hair and am able to do so?
Bah. Broke my sleep again by being sickish.
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"It is indeed terribly frustrating that almost every aspect (no matter how seemingly insignificant) of Alexander the Great's life is subject to such widely varying interpretations with very different conclusions. Any study of Alexander forces the researcher to sift through multitudinous accounts and choose those which seem most plausible. Unfortunately, this is exactly the same procedure that most Alexander-scholars have been following for hundreds of years, and it has only led to the creation of more and more variations of the story.
The greatest problems in an examination of Alexander the Great are the early sources of information about him and the different interpretations to which these sources have lent themselves. There are five historians from antiquity whose works on Alexander are still in existence. They are Arrian, Plutarch, Diodorus, Justin, and Curtius. These writers lived and produced their works hundreds of years after Alexander's death. However, it is upon these works that we must rely because all of the many accounts of Alexander's life which were written by his contemporaries and associates have been lost to us forever."
... apparently there's enough in Plutarch's Lives about Alexander's relationships with Hephaistion and Bagoas to make the supposition that he was bi a reasonable one.
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