Comments on: Audio Slideshows from Italia 2008 Travels http://hundredmountain.com/archives/8 Thu, 29 Jul 2010 01:49:17 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: admin http://hundredmountain.com/archives/8/comment-page-1#comment-11 admin Wed, 03 Sep 2008 01:49:10 +0000 http://hundredmountain.com/?p=8#comment-11 I have a permanently etched arm to at least prove I was there (on the other hand, I COULD have gotten this tattoo in a drunken stupor in Milton, WV. Hmmm.....) Thanks for viewing them, Savage Queen | yrs, Doug I have a permanently etched arm to at least prove I was there (on the other hand, I COULD have gotten this tattoo in a drunken stupor in Milton, WV. Hmmm…..) Thanks for viewing them, Savage Queen | yrs, Doug

]]> By: tracy edmonds herz http://hundredmountain.com/archives/8/comment-page-1#comment-10 tracy edmonds herz Wed, 03 Sep 2008 01:42:12 +0000 http://hundredmountain.com/?p=8#comment-10 Doug, i am so touched by these lovely pics and thank you for sharing it with us. The photos are amazing. Are you sure you took them? hahaha The Savage Queen Doug, i am so touched by these lovely pics and thank you for sharing it with us. The photos are amazing. Are you sure you took them? hahaha The Savage Queen

]]> By: admin http://hundredmountain.com/archives/8/comment-page-1#comment-7 admin Mon, 01 Sep 2008 16:18:05 +0000 http://hundredmountain.com/?p=8#comment-7 Dear Donna: Work on the boy. Would love to have you at Culturefest. There is a nice state resort called Pipestem 5 minutes up the road, if you don't want to camp. And suggest to Rick a Fred Flintstone OR Mister Spock tat. Tell him he has to keep up with his brother (even if our mother is spinning in her grave, tattoo-wise) | Doug Dear Donna: Work on the boy. Would love to have you at Culturefest. There is a nice state resort called Pipestem 5 minutes up the road, if you don’t want to camp. And suggest to Rick a Fred Flintstone OR Mister Spock tat. Tell him he has to keep up with his brother (even if our mother is spinning in her grave, tattoo-wise) | Doug

]]> By: Rick and Donna http://hundredmountain.com/archives/8/comment-page-1#comment-6 Rick and Donna Mon, 01 Sep 2008 15:39:00 +0000 http://hundredmountain.com/?p=8#comment-6 Most entertaining. I'm gonna have to go with “AN ITALIAN TATTOO TALE” as my fave. I liked the song in “I RAGAZZI e ME". Great photos all around. Lucas looks like a Bernini statue. __Rick Cool pics. I love your story telling on the Tattoo Tale, also my favourite. Maybe I can talk Rick into getting a Tat when/if we go to Culture Fest 2008. D O N N A Most entertaining. I’m gonna have to go with “AN ITALIAN TATTOO TALE” as my fave. I liked the song in “I RAGAZZI e ME”. Great photos all around. Lucas looks like a Bernini statue. __Rick

Cool pics. I love your story telling on the Tattoo Tale, also my favourite. Maybe I can talk Rick into getting a Tat when/if we go to Culture Fest 2008.
D O N N A

]]> By: Rich's comment http://hundredmountain.com/archives/8/comment-page-1#comment-5 Rich's comment Mon, 01 Sep 2008 14:42:12 +0000 http://hundredmountain.com/?p=8#comment-5 <em>One of my fave English professors from my Miami University days, Rich Erlich, passed on this comment in an e-mail about the "Roman Coliseum Jazz" slideshow above -- Doug:</em> RICH WRITES: "You’ve got the start date right for the Coliseum/Colosseum: it was shortly after the end of the first big revolt in Judea. Given that date, there’s a good chance that the Colosseum was built with Jewish slaves taken in suppressing the revolt (and others, I’d think, especially for the skilled work) and using loot from the Jewish defeat/Roman victory. "According to a reconstructed inscription found on the site, <i>'The emperor Vespasian ordered this new amphitheater to be erected from his general's share of the booty.'</i> This is thought to refer to the vast quantity of treasure seized by the Romans following their victory in the Great Jewish Revolt in 70. The Colosseum can be thus interpreted as a great triumphal monument built in the Roman tradition of celebrating great victories. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colosseum" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colosseum</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_ancient_Israel_and_Judah#Jewish-Roman_Wars" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_ancient_Israel_and_Judah#Jewish-Roman_Wars</a> And that was the story my group got when I toured the Coliseum. One of my fave English professors from my Miami University days, Rich Erlich, passed on this comment in an e-mail about the “Roman Coliseum Jazz” slideshow above — Doug:

RICH WRITES: “You’ve got the start date right for the Coliseum/Colosseum: it was shortly after the end of the first big revolt in Judea. Given that date, there’s a good chance that the Colosseum was built with Jewish slaves taken in suppressing the revolt (and others, I’d think, especially for the skilled work) and using loot from the Jewish defeat/Roman victory.

“According to a reconstructed inscription found on the site, ‘The emperor Vespasian ordered this new amphitheater to be erected from his general’s share of the booty.’ This is thought to refer to the vast quantity of treasure seized by the Romans following their victory in the Great Jewish Revolt in 70. The Colosseum can be thus interpreted as a great triumphal monument built in the Roman tradition of celebrating great victories.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colosseum
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_ancient_Israel_and_Judah#Jewish-Roman_Wars

And that was the story my group got when I toured the Coliseum.

]]> By: admin http://hundredmountain.com/archives/8/comment-page-1#comment-2 admin Tue, 26 Aug 2008 03:33:43 +0000 http://hundredmountain.com/?p=8#comment-2 Let me know what you think by posting comments here on individual slideshows. | doug Let me know what you think by posting comments here on individual slideshows. | doug

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