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without-ado · 2 months

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Road map of the Roman Empire (x)

#topography #road map #roman empire #history #maps #rome #all roads lead to rome

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therulerofallpotatos · 11 months

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First Sentence Tag War

tagged by: @wincestation

Rules: Post the FIRST sentence of a wip you haven't published yet - could be a oneshot or a new chapter of a longer story, but the sentence has to be the first one of the fic/chapter!

alright. here’s something for...Chapter One of All Roads Lead to Rome

“You there!” a woman with no eyes cried out from across the street, pointing at Tyler and his mom. “Son of Addam! I need to talk to you!”

Tagging: @wincestation, @realisticintentions, @realmermaid333, @suchaladyy, @cosmic-lullaby, @nonamemanga, @badmoodbatflowers

#my writing #All Roads Lead to Rome #first sentence tag war #wyler #wednesday addams #wednesday netflix #tyler galpin

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silence-herault-of-joy · 2 years

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“And then...one touch of your hand and God comes rushing back„

#cesare x lucrezia #the borgias #dark academia aesthetic #all roads lead to rome #lucrezia borgia #cesare borgia #borgia aesthetic

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zsugamialba · 1 year

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When all roads lead to Earth, it's really hard to go on that vacation to Apalapucia you were planning.

#classic doctor who #funny #third doctor #claws of the axos #all roads lead to rome #galactic yo-yo #the doctor's bad driving skills

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poems-from-around-the-world · 5 months

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All Roads Lead to Rome - Immanuel Mifsud - Malta

Translators: Ruth Ward and Immanuel Mifsud (Maltese)

As we walk amidst cars, trams, and scooters in the same whereabouts where legionnaires, centurions, and gladiators marched ready for blood, we indulge discussing time without noticing it is discussing us with itself.

#All Roads Lead to Rome #Immanuel Mifsud #Malta #translation: Maltese #poem #poetry #poems from around the world

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kcdahippie · 7 months

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"You know, I am so constantly outwitting the opposition, I tend to forget the delights and satisfaction of the arts, the gentle art of fisticuffs."

-The First Doctor, saying he's ready to throw hands whenever

#the first doctor #the romans #all roads lead to rome #classic who #kc and the quest to watch dr who

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haveyouseenthisromcom · 3 months

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#movies #polls #all roads lead to rome #sarah jessica parker #raoul bova #ella lemhagan #drama #ended #result: unheard of

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collective-remnants-rwby · 11 months

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You're still doing those character asks? If so, I'd like to see an OC based on Coppelia, preferably as an evil counterpart to Penny.

I actually have a Nuts & Dolts RWBaby based off this girl. Her name's Zirconia Rose, a consummate gearhead and absolute sweetie (sorry for not making her a villain) who wields the receiver dishes, gauntlets and bangles that unfold into bladed chakram she can turn into laser cannons, which she wields using her Semblance, Tech Support, strings of Aura that allow her to telekinetically manipulate digital technology.

#RWBY #RWBYOC #RWBY OC #character ask game #All Roads Lead To ROME

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oldfilmsflicker · 9 months

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new-to-me #652 - All Roads Lead to Rome

#2023 in Films #All Roads Lead to Rome #Ella Lemhagen #52 films by women #directed by women

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sukimas · 1 year

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jugdral and archanea (/valentia) may constantly be being ravaged by dragon bullshit but in terms of fire emblem continents they're probably some of the best to live in by virtue of running water (at least in the cities) and non-disgusting sewage systems

#all roads lead to rome #valentia has the giant sluice gate so there's even evidence for water engineering outright

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bookanimeart · 1 year

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All roads lead to Floam.

#all roads lead to rome #floam #pun #funny #humor #joke

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therulerofallpotatos · 1 year

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Had to wait like an hour last night for a maintanence thing to go back to bed so i started writing while I waited. Was it chapter 4 of Rome? No because I'm currently learning poker until I can finish that scene. Did I start a new multi-chapter where Wyler met when they were 13 and maintained a penpal relationship for the two years before Wednesday enrolls at Nevermore? Maybe

#rome is still the priority but cmon #i get to write love letters #wednesday netflix #wednesday addams #tyler galpin #wyler #my writing #all roads lead to rome #love letter au

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and-they-were-tombmates · 2 years

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If the Ancient Romans had Google Maps

By FRANK JACOBS

OmnesViae is a modern route planner based on the roads of the Roman Empire.

Like us, the Romans were adept at scrolling — except they used actual, unwieldy scrolls. They would have loved OmnesViae, a handy online route planner, just for Roman roads. Handy, yes. But crossing the empire would still be a schlep of more than 250 days.

In 20 BC, the emperor Augustus had a giant gilded spike installed next to the Temple of Saturn on the Forum Romanum. This was the Milliarium Aureum, or Golden Milestone, from which distances to cities throughout the empire were measured — and the true subject of the saying: omnes viae Romam ducunt (“all roads lead to Rome”).

It was a boast with more than a little truth to it. The Roman Empire’s extensive network of well-engineered, preferably straight roads was one of its main unifying features, a fact Augustus himself was very aware of. He put considerable effort into his reform of the road administration, had several roads built out of his own pocket, and created a courier service to optimize the usefulness of the network.

Not for nothing did his litany of honorifics include the title Curator Viarium (“Steward of the Roads”).

ROME'S ROADS REALLY TIED THE EMPIRE TOGETHER

In its heyday, Rome’s cursus publicus (“public road network”) consisted of about 380 interconnected roads, totaling around 50,000 miles (app. 80,000 km). Way stations and milestones facilitated the movement of traders and soldiers. In other words, they where vectors for the extension of Rome’s wealth and power. And they really did tie the empire together. Find yourself anywhere on the network, from the frozen wastes of northern Britannia to the shores of the Persian Gulf, and you easily could find your way back to Rome.

Easily perhaps, but not necessarily quickly. Lacking motorized transport, Romans could travel only as fast as legs could carry them — their own, or if they could afford them, those of their horses.

Unfortunately, ancient Rome also lacked a decent internet connection, otherwise travelers could have looked up the course and duration of their trip on OmnesViae.com, the online route planner the Romans never knew they needed.

OmnesViae leans heavily on the Tabula Peutingeriana, the closest thing we have to a genuine itinerarium (“road map”) of the Roman Empire.

Ancient Rome certainly had maps, but none from that time survive. The Peutinger Map, a 13th-century parchment scroll, is a copy of a much older map, which is only two “possibles” away from the Steward of the Roads himself: It may date from the 4th or 5th century, and that version may be a copy of a map prepared for Augustus around year 1 AD.

One argument in favor of the Augustan link: the map includes ancient Pompeii, which was destroyed by an eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD and never rebuilt, which points to an earlier origin. (Modern Pompei was founded only in 1891.) Yet it also includes Constantinople and prominently features Ravenna, which suggest the map copied by that anonymous 13th-century monk was an updated version from the 4th century (at the earliest), or more likely the 5th, as it splashes the name Francia (France) — after the newly arrived Germanic tribe of the Franks — across what until then was known exclusively as Gallia (Gaul).

ROMAN MAPS WERE JUST LIKE... TUBE MAPS?

Whatever its ultimate age, the shape of the Tabula — about a foot high and 22 feet long (33 cm by 6.75 m) — tells us that it cannot be topographically accurate. Instead, it focuses on presenting road corridors and connectors, with a few branches forking off through Persia all the way to India. By sacrificing topographic accuracy for network connectivity, the Peutinger Map is strangely reminiscent (or should that be “predictive”) of the London Tube map and other modern metro maps.

Geolocating thousands of points from Peutinger, OmnesViae reformats the roads and destinations on the scroll onto a more familiarly landscaped map. The shortest route between two (ancient) points is calculated using the distances travelled over Roman rather than modern roads, also taking into account the rivers and mountains the network must cross.

The Peutinger, for all its historical value, is not complete: It misses Britain and Spain. The roads of those Roman provinces were reconstructed using other sources, including the Itinerarium Antonini, a register (rather than a map) of Roman roads, way stations, and distances, possibly based on an empire-wide survey carried out in the time of Augustus.

GOODBYE, FLOUR SACKS!

So, what’s the farthest distance you could travel on Roman roads? From Blatobulgium to Volocesia must come pretty close. Blatobulgium was a Roman fort in what is now Dumfriesshire, Scotland, at the northern terminus of Route 2 in the Antonine Itinerary (also known as Watling Street). The fort’s name, Brittonic in origin, may mean something like “Flour Sacks” — a reference to the place’s granaries. It was occupied for about a century following 79 AD.

Volocesia, placed by OmnesViae near the Kuwaiti island of Bubiyan, is sometimes identified with a modern place called Abu Halafiya, on the banks of the Tigris in southern Iraq. According to OmnesViae, the distance between both is MMMDCCLI (3,751) Roman miles (about 4,100 modern miles, or slightly more than 5600 km). That trip would take you CCLI (251) days to complete.

That’s not a road trip to undertake casually, but a life-altering (and possibly life-ending) journey. Come to think of it, the same could very well be said today of a walk (or even a ride on horseback) from Scotland to Kuwait — and that’s with Google Maps.

Source: https://bigthink.com/strange-maps/omnesviae-roman-roads-map/

#all roads lead to rome #topography #roman history #archaeology

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2nd-book-of-lamentations · 27 days

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Dirges of the Damned

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Another Fool in a New Time Proclaims Himself the World

Another declaration etched upon The Roman road's Marker: al-Jamud al-Hallaj, "أنا اللهم"

So riddled with signatures One must erase to scratch anew Riddling what came before Suf rug pulled out from under And over the jaundiced I's Until the overwrites are autosaves And all names of God are forgot

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evilhorse · 6 months

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All roads once led to Rome and it was burned to the ground.

(X-O Manowar #20)

#x-o manowar #Aric #atom-13 #all roads lead to rome #ominous #threatening #matt kindt #juan jose ryp #valiant comics #comics #2010s comics

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poetiosity · 7 months

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What if I Pick Wrong? What if I go Down the Wrong Road?

When I was learning to drive, my dad would have me drive “out in the country” and away from traffic. He had an amazing sense of direction and also taught me the logic of road numbering and naming. (It’s not random?!) He used to say, “All roads lead to Rome” when we’d end up a little farther away than expected. That proverb can mean many things, but when he said it to me, he meant: Don’t panic.…

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#All roads lead to Rome #SARK #The Hero&039;s Journey

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