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orichalcum at 11:57am on 21/02/2007 under baby history
orichalcum at 11:57am on 21/02/2007 under baby historySo, the largest number of babies are born in the August-October range. Medieval Europeans (and many modern Catholics) were traditionally supposed to eat a large amount of fish during Lent, a time that would coincide with key neural developmental points for such babies. The extra fish would give the fetuses needed Omega-3s. Huh. Maybe the Catholic Church was onto something. :)
Rome game update: Senators were skeptical of consul Cicero's claims that there was a dangerous conspiracy, led by the notorious wastrel Catilina, which was planning to burn down Rome and kill all the elected leaders in five days. He initially said that his informants were all secret and so he could not provide direct evidence. He proposed a revolutionary new law giving him and his fellow consul temporary power to do "whatever was necessary" to deal with the crisis; the Senate was reluctant. Eventually, they promised witness protection (totally historical!) for his informants and a woman named Fulvia, the mistress of one of the alleged conspirators, testified to her knowledge of the conspiracy. However, one of the populares Senators noted that the woman's cousin, the Vestal Virgin Fulvia, (not, as first thought, the woman herself) had been accused of sacriliegious intercourse with Catilina, and suggested that maybe the witness Fulvia had invented her testimony out of a grudge against Catilina for ruining her cousin's reputation.
After much debate, the Senate decided to put Catilina under (voluntary) house arrest, to recruit a temporary police force for Rome out of Pompeius' veterans, armed with clubs and some daggers and bronze armor, and to establish a special council of the two consuls and eight praetors to make quick decisions if necessary in the crisis.
Rome game update: Senators were skeptical of consul Cicero's claims that there was a dangerous conspiracy, led by the notorious wastrel Catilina, which was planning to burn down Rome and kill all the elected leaders in five days. He initially said that his informants were all secret and so he could not provide direct evidence. He proposed a revolutionary new law giving him and his fellow consul temporary power to do "whatever was necessary" to deal with the crisis; the Senate was reluctant. Eventually, they promised witness protection (totally historical!) for his informants and a woman named Fulvia, the mistress of one of the alleged conspirators, testified to her knowledge of the conspiracy. However, one of the populares Senators noted that the woman's cousin, the Vestal Virgin Fulvia, (not, as first thought, the woman herself) had been accused of sacriliegious intercourse with Catilina, and suggested that maybe the witness Fulvia had invented her testimony out of a grudge against Catilina for ruining her cousin's reputation.
After much debate, the Senate decided to put Catilina under (voluntary) house arrest, to recruit a temporary police force for Rome out of Pompeius' veterans, armed with clubs and some daggers and bronze armor, and to establish a special council of the two consuls and eight praetors to make quick decisions if necessary in the crisis.
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