expect plenty of nail-biting fights and gritty detail as you watch the lives of Cato and Macro play out on the barbarian frontier of the Roman Empire.
In the Roman empire, win- emakers and wine sellers often sweetened wine with sapa, a syrup of grape juice reduced to one third of its volume through boiling in a lead vessel. This additive helped the wine to preserve longer, but also had the negative effect of causing severe lead ...
The Book Of The Month Jerry Pournelle Monday, July 17, 2006 For many years the Book of the Month has been a feature in the Computing At Chaos Manor column. This was in two parts: The Book of the Month, which is general reading, and The Computer Book Of The Month, which is self ex...