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Travel / Re: Greetings From Rome! by revontuli(f): 9:26pm On Oct 16, 2018 |
Here is the personification of River Nile with the Sphinx and cherubs. The whole cherub concept is ancient Greek, predating Christianity by millenia. It passed on to the Romans and then Christian art over the time. Rivers are grammatically male in Latin, so they are always personified as male deities. Roads are female and their personification is in the form of female deities. I've seen a coin from Trajan's time depicting Via Traiana as a nude woman holding a wheel. 1 Like
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Travel / Re: Greetings From Rome! by revontuli(f): 9:14pm On Oct 16, 2018 |
Statues and bas reliefs from the Vatican Museums. #1: Sacrifice scene. Roman centurion pours libation on the altar before the sacrifice of a ram. #2: A military scene, I have no idea what this was, there was no plaque explaining it. Beautiful details and craftsmanship #3: Another dramatic scene, again I didn't see any plaque. Those Romans were such a handsome people. #4: 3 male heads. The middle one is an unknown African. The rightmost one resembles emperor Tiberius quite a bit but I can't be sure. I'm a big lover of the Roman military garb, togas and and all those vivid scenes carved with such a amazing skill. Sorry for the dark photos, I was simply too broke to afford camera gear that could take sharp photos in dim lighting without a tripod. This was the best I could do. 1 Like
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Travel / Re: Greetings From Rome! by revontuli(f): 9:02pm On Oct 16, 2018 |
Roman statues weren't white marble as we see today. They were painted in vivid colors. How do we know this? Scientists have found residue of pigments on statues when they analyzed, and could tell what parts were painted in what colors. Pigment residue has been found on the column of Trajan, so the scenes there were also painted in vibrant hues. Here is the replica of Augustus Prima Porta at a courtyard of the Vatican Museum, painted as close to the original as possible. The original marble statue is in the museum. 1 Like
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Travel / Re: New York 107 Years Ago, Wow! by revontuli(f): 5:23pm On Oct 16, 2018 |
Beautyaddy: Cars were still a novelty and not very common. There is a good number of horse carriages in the video. |
Family / Re: Nwanyi Ocha, Swiss Blogger Celebrates Her Nigerian Husband's Birthday In Igbo by revontuli(f): 5:14pm On Oct 16, 2018 |
Fuqman: Exactly my thoughts. 90% of those white oyinbo lady with Naija hubby threads feature old women of retirement age. |
Health / Re: Explorers Welcomes His Little Princess, Shares Hospital Experience(Photos) by revontuli(f): 1:52pm On Oct 16, 2018 |
Congrats bro, big congrats! She is adorable, you wrote it in such a way it touched everyone's hearts. |
Events / Re: Lady Takes 'Bridal Shower' To A Big River With Her Friends (Photos) by revontuli(f): 12:35am On Oct 16, 2018 |
Humility017: Why? What will happen to her husband? Why are you people so scared of this, I don't get it. Do such women do ritual sacrifices or something? |
Romance / Re: Bella Don: Nigerian Lady And Her Older White Lover On Facebook (Photos) by revontuli(f): 11:51pm On Oct 15, 2018 |
xtervaganza: I don't see how those ladies can stomach letting such hideous old men touch them. Ewwww! I'd rather have super handsome and broke guy than ugly old geezer with money. Which is exactly what I have. A Greek god who is broke, we are both broke and who cares. I'll eat a bullet before letting such a hideous grandpa well past expiration date anywhere near me.Yuck! |
Travel / Re: American, US Based, And US Aspirant Derailer Thread by revontuli(f): 11:42pm On Oct 15, 2018 |
radautoworks: I was in San Antonio. I've been to Houston many times to visit friends but its air was too dirty and there was too much traffic. I moved from San Francisco Bay Area to Texas so the culture shock was massive, work culture was outright hostile compared to the Silicon Valley and full of ridiculous bureaucracy + stupid dress codes. Not all of them was like this, one had no dress code and relax culture but unfortunately it was so awfully noisy it drove me insane I had to leave. I can do wonders in the right conditions. I can't tolerate bright lights and noise, especially lights above my head. Those stupid halfwits didn't let me remove or loosen the light bulbs above my head.(Californians had no problem, half of the people removed the overhead lights and no one cared.) They forced me to sit under that terrible light and endure the torture, and expected me to be productive. the neatness of light bulbs was more important than the wellbeing of the workers. I felt like a slave there majority of the time. Except for the last place where I did night shift and sat in the dark and quiet. I felt less tired after the 12 hour shift there than 2 hours at the other ex-workplaces. I'm in Finland now and living the dream. It's paradise on earth(for me at least.) They leave me the f alone at work, let me shut off the light, plug my ears, let me do my thing and I do wonders. I had crap performance in Texas cause it was oppressive, horrible environments most of the time. Now I'm treated like a rock star cause I deliver like one. It's really utopic, no desert heat, no rattlesnakes, scorpions and deadly poisonous spiders. Those terrible spiders get inside no matter how much you watch, if you are watching the floors they crawl from the doorframe above your head, and always get into the house I know some people who got disfigurations from chunks of dead flesh being surgically removed as the result of that spider's bite. I saw rattlesnakes in my and other people's backyards more than once. And then there are the fire ants. God forbid if you are into gardening, step on their nest and they crawl all over your legs, their bites sting like hot needles being stuck in your skin, and leaves nasty blisters. Maybe Houston suburbia isn't such a jungle. Austin and San Antonio both were, full of nasty creepy-crawlies. The heat made me sick, I couldn't go out in daytime and had to buy groceries after sundown. You leave the car in the sun for 5 minutes and even if you put a shade behind the windshield you will find it a furnace when you come back from the store. We all know one won't be able to buy food in 5 minutes.... more like 40 and you can cook an egg inside that car with the ambient heat. Someone actually did experiments baking cookies in side a car in Texas heat. LMAO. It legit becomes an oven and you can cook stuff without any need for fire! If you love heat it's great. I didn't like being locked up inside all day cause of the oppressive heat. It was so depressing. Now I'm quite happy in Finland with the snowy winters and frozen seas. I can go out whenever I want, bicycle and run without the fear of heat stroke. I can go ski on the frozen seas in winter. Freezing cold is fresh and makes me feel alive, not lethargic and half-dead. 1 Like |
Travel / Re: American, US Based, And US Aspirant Derailer Thread by revontuli(f): 9:23pm On Oct 15, 2018 |
radautoworks: Texas was hell on earth for me with its terrible desert heat, endemic mental illness, poisonous biting nasty things like rattlesnakes, brown recluses, scorpions and swarms of wasps. One man's paradise is another's hell. If you are doing your own business it's great with low taxes, low cost of living, cheap fuel and labor. For wage slaves it's absolute hell with the extrmely hostile work culture and intolerant mentality. |
Romance / Re: 'I Can’t Date A Guy Without A Car, Talk Less Of Marrying Him' - Lady Says by revontuli(f): 4:03pm On Oct 15, 2018 |
kodded: Come to the Antarctica thread of Explorers, we talk about space and climate science there. https://www.nairaland.com/4783721/what-happens-when-cook-antarctica Also my Rome travel thread in Travel section, I write about history and ancient engineering wonders. Science and technology section has some good threads but the Travel section has some gems too. 1 Like |
TV/Movies / Re: More Photos Of 'The Mountain' In Game Of Thrones And His Tiny Girlfriend by revontuli(f): 2:55pm On Oct 15, 2018 |
All the jobless are thinking about the sex life of these two. People looking for staff should be posting their ads here |
Romance / Re: Bella Don: Nigerian Lady And Her Older White Lover On Facebook (Photos) by revontuli(f): 10:33am On Oct 15, 2018 |
xtervaganza: This is the best comment in this thread. |
Events / Re: Lady Takes 'Bridal Shower' To A Big River With Her Friends (Photos) by revontuli(f): 9:48am On Oct 15, 2018 |
Ziel20: Why, what would she do to him? Why are you people so scared of water spirits, what do they do? |
Travel / Re: This Is What Happens When You Cook In Antarctica At -70°C (Photos) by revontuli(f): 10:34pm On Oct 14, 2018 |
njelrapheal:
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Romance / Re: Nairaland Get Together Party 5.0 by revontuli(f): 7:11pm On Oct 14, 2018 |
Boat cruise sounds awesome. Some day when I'm not broke I'll go to Naija to join those Nairaland boat parties. Do you do foam party too? |
Travel / Re: This Is What Happens When You Cook In Antarctica At -70°C (Photos) by revontuli(f): 5:59pm On Oct 14, 2018 |
mexzony: Python for the most part, I'm doing automation projects. |
Travel / Re: This Is What Happens When You Cook In Antarctica At -70°C (Photos) by revontuli(f): 5:54pm On Oct 14, 2018 |
njelrapheal: That whole flat earth nonsense started as a joke to troll the internet. You must have slept through the optics lessons in high school. Sometimes you can see super far places due to the refraction of the light amplified by temperature differences, flat earth trolls are using those to brainwash the ignorant people. That whole thing was a troll project like the flying spaghetti monster, but flying spaghetti monster usd no conspiracy element so it found no believers (not because it was any more ridiculous than the flat earth nonsense.) Don't believe evertyting you read/watch on the internet. Rather than watching ridiculous videos, study the laws of optics and basic physics and try to understand how things work. Flat earth believers are thr laughing stock of the educated people as well as the trolls who created that nonsense. |
Celebrities / Re: Ufeli Mariam Discovers Blessing, Groundnut Seller With Hazel Eyes by revontuli(f): 2:08pm On Oct 14, 2018 |
abbeyty: Ugly guys grow beards to hide it! |
Celebrities / Re: Ufeli Mariam Discovers Blessing, Groundnut Seller With Hazel Eyes by revontuli(f): 2:04pm On Oct 14, 2018 |
floraojo: You can get any eye color and makeup you want with youcam makeup app! It's free and you can try expensive brands and every kind of style and color, including contact lenses in dozens of colors. See my profile pic, I got yellow lizard eyes 1 Like |
Travel / Re: This Is What Happens When You Cook In Antarctica At -70°C (Photos) by revontuli(f): 1:54pm On Oct 14, 2018 |
olujastro:You are too kind! I was interested in space, astrophysics and universe studies when I was a teenager and read a lot on those subjects. I'm a sofware engineer, my formal education has nothing to do with those subjects, just computer code. 2 Likes |
Travel / Re: New York 107 Years Ago, Wow! by revontuli(f): 1:51pm On Oct 14, 2018 |
BedLam: Those are yesterday's things, I've seen the 2000 year old great old Roman structures, bridges, aqueducts, sewer tunnel. They are still in use today. 1500 year old Byzantine cisterns survived underground with no maintenance at all. Egyptian pyramids have been standing for thousands of years. 3 Likes |
Health / Re: Nigeria Among The Top 10 Countries With The Highest Fertility Rates In 2018 by revontuli(f): 11:21am On Oct 14, 2018 |
SilentListener: My people are a small nation. We never used slaves, quite the contrary we were enslaved by the Turks and the Russians & our people were sold in slave markets. The country I am living in right now has no history of colonialism and slavery either, you are using the wrongdoings of 3-4 imperialist nations to judge an entire race. |
Travel / Re: This Is What Happens When You Cook In Antarctica At -70°C (Photos) by revontuli(f): 2:08am On Oct 14, 2018 |
martyns303: They can fly there only during the 3 months of summer. Icing is one thing but the extreme winds are a big problem. Katabatic winds of Antarctica can be as severe as the hurricane force winds. There are ice runways in Antarctica, they landed a Boeing 757 there first time in 2015. But like I said only in summer. Near the coast the temperature can exceed +10°C at times in summer, far inland it's about -30. So de-icing gear must be the same as Canada. No one can fly there outside of summer though 1 Like |
Food / Re: Cook In Your Kitchen, Take Pictures And Post It Here. SIMPLE! by revontuli(f): 1:21am On Oct 14, 2018 |
iamloyalty: Looks delicious! 1 Like |
Travel / Re: This Is What Happens When You Cook In Antarctica At -70°C (Photos) by revontuli(f): 1:13am On Oct 14, 2018 |
olujastro: If you are floating in the space, there is no up andd down. The concept of up and down is arbitrary and gravity is the only thing making it real. If you are floating in a zero gravity environment, you won't know up and down. Besides how do we know north is the right side up? It's all arbitrary. Maybe antarctica is 'up' and the north pole is 'down'. It's all labels we made up to make sense of the world we are living in. Try to step out into the space and look at planet Earth from there. Every side will be the right side then. Even the concept of time is arbitrary, time as we know disappears at the event horizon of a black hole, as it's different at the fringes of the universe. If you travel a bit at the speed of light, when you come back you will find everone you know dead and gone and their grandchildren too, while you are the same age as you left. Up, down, north, south, hours, days.... All arbitrary things that will make no sense when you step out of this planet and space-time continuum. All goes out of the window. All those little things we invented to anchor our little brains in the endless vast universe. 7 Likes 1 Share |
Travel / Re: Greetings From Rome! by revontuli(f): 12:19am On Oct 14, 2018 |
DeeMain: Thanks you for the kind words! There are still hundreds of photos to pick from. Lots of stories to tell, time permitting. |
Travel / Re: Greetings From Rome! by revontuli(f): 12:16am On Oct 14, 2018 |
Tellemall: I'm a big fan of Roman engineering. It's incredible so many of those bridges and structures still stand intact. Roman concrete is superior to modern concrete. They do toga parties, it would be great to do it. There are guys who run around in gladiator outfits and charge money to take photos with the tourists. I wore medieval costume in old town Tallinn and walked around like that. It would be fun to go around wearing togas in Rome, it doesn't even look weird cause there are all those gladiators around. 1 Like |
Celebrities / Re: Ufeli Mariam Discovers Blessing, Groundnut Seller With Hazel Eyes by revontuli(f): 11:50pm On Oct 13, 2018 |
I got an idea of getting a makeover, since I'm broke as hell and don't know any makeup artists, I used a free app to put on makeup and change my looks for the better. I'm putting the result as my profile photo The app did wonders ! |
Events / Re: Lady Takes 'Bridal Shower' To A Big River With Her Friends (Photos) by revontuli(f): 11:37pm On Oct 13, 2018 |
chinjo:Is that the name of a water spirit? |
Romance / Re: Nairaland Get Together Party 5.0 by revontuli(f): 11:34pm On Oct 13, 2018 |
vizkiz: Pfff what does it have to do with race, I'm scared of loud aggressive men and run a mile wherever see them whatever color they are. I get off the metro car and move to the next one to avoid loud and scary groups of drunk white men too. |
Religion / Re: Traditionalist Who Didn’t Marry His Baby Mama, Reveals Why. Photos by revontuli(f): 11:27pm On Oct 13, 2018 |
PAGAN9JA: It's great that pure traditional religions survived in Africa. Europeans except for the Greeks and the Romans had no writing before Christianity, and the witch hunts+massacess of pagans+complete destruction of temples and everything else left very little to survive to this day. Christianity destroyed or bastardized the traditional wisdom and heritage of South Americans and Europeans for the most part, but failed to wipe the traditional African religions. |
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