it's not quite up there with the stabbing of Julius Caesar (see image above) by people he considered friends. But if open RAN had a voice, it might be gasping "et tu, AT&T" with
On July 3 the German Catholic League (founded 1609) and the German Protestant Union (founded 1608) kiss and make up and sign the Treaty of Ulm, under the terms of which the Protestant Union declares neutrality and drops its support of Frederick V of Bohemia, stabbing him in the back and...
But what Rome viewers didn’t realize — yet perhaps could feel on some unconscious level — is that Taylor researched each of Caesar’s 23 wounds to make the stabbings accurately placed and in their correct order. So: Cinematic, yes, but also precise....
Now hop on over to the Roman Empire and Julius Caesar. He was dealing with major seasonal drift on calendars used in his neck of the woods. They dealt badly with drift by adding months. He was also navigating a vast array of calendars starting in a vast array of ways in the...
Japan: 4 Injured At Stabbing Inside Tokyo Train, Suspect Arrested At Akihabara Station 02:53 Reenactment of Julius Caesar's assassination marks anniversary of Ides of March 04:58 Judge criticises drill music after boy 14 was fatally stabbed in gang feud ...
Welcome back to The Play's the Thing where we're talking Shakespeare one act at a time. This week, Heidi, Matt, and Brian discuss Julius Caesar, Act III. There's lots of speech-making in this act so, yeah, they discuss that. And ambiguous characters. And whether stabbing Caesar was ...
Heart-broken, Dido commits suicide by stabbing herself on a funeral pyre with Aeneas’ own sword, predicting in her death throes eternal strife between Aeneas’ people and hers. Looking back from the deck of his ship, Aeneas sees the smoke of Dido‘s funeral pyre and knows its meaning only...
Sauron’s Orcs mutiny against him in a brutal stabbing reminiscent of Julius Caesar. Initially, I scored this scene with tension and horror. Patrick McKay suggested I was missing a sense of epic, barbarous beauty, and cited the score toConan the Barbarian. Once you mention Basil Poledouris’ ...
The double-edged long sword was the main weapon of the Gauls, a collection of Celtic tribal peoples that inhabited what is now France, Belgium and Western Germany. Unlike the shorter Roman “gladius,” which was primarily a stabbing weapon, the iron swords employed by the Gauls were designed...
Thus when the Batavi, exchanging blows, striking with their shield-bosses, stabbing at the enemy faces and, felling those who held the level ground, began to force their way uphill, the other battalions positioned themselves to charge in emulation, and slaughter those nearest, and in victory ...