Balbas's Journals
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Technical Concerns at AW
General
| Might be your connect speed is too slow as well.Then again, it may be these guys ... *G*... |
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Working in 3D
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| ... is as easy as visiting Bloisville, just one of many cities at My-Mini-City that you can live in. Create one and invite your friends to click the U... |
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PRAEFECTUS !!!
Historical
| I know, I know. I haven't been looking out for many of you in the district. A domus wall collapsed exposing someone's rather poor taste in whores when... |
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Living in RL
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| Scary if this is true, which it just can't be due to the wacky neo-Nazi anti-nutrient theories or how hate-crimes legislation will undermine Christian... |
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Yet More Goldfest
Social
A participant plaque for the Roman Graffiti Contest:
3rd Place in the Roman Archaelogy Acumen test:
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Restaurant Food
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| Click to view the recipes:
Herbed Pork Medallions with Cheese
Peppercorn Crusted Pork Chop with Maple Sage Cream
Honey Pecan Pork Loin with Dijon... |
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Group Postings
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| ... and the members who post in them. Some are still active, many are not, and a few are truly dead. As we often say, "If AW is going to continue than... |
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Welcome, welcome! Please come in and sit a bit, talk of great or subtle things, and enjoy fresh olives of every variety and several kinds of wine; my Greek slaves have lamb roasting on a spit daily; whatever your pleasure, just inform my slavegirl house-babe Sabina of your needs.
I am an architect by training, and I daily oversee numerous building projects throughout the city. I've also been made Praefectus of my district -- a thankless job to be sure, though many local women have thanked me personally here at the Estate.
Ahhh... the wonders of being idly rich, replacing the black marble with red, though the Lapis Lazuli to inlay the inscribed text, still draws gasps of delight. My white marble atrium and poet pool, however, will remain pristine. In an adjacent domus I house my culina, triclinium, and praefecture offices; those rooms in this building have given way to cubiculums, of which many a woman has frequented. My Latrinum has several well-trained slaves happy to quote from the latest literary works while you strain.
If you'd like to visit, I live in the very fashionable Collis Caelius district (click Germania Zeppelinia aerialgraph) a block away from the huge Temple of the Divine Claudius:
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Pеволюция
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Of course, all of this is creative writing. I'm not really in Rome, Balbas is not an historical figure, and I'm not allowed by the laws in my country to legally own slave girls.
What Ancient Worlds is all about is history. Some of it is serious, some is camp, some is in between. And if this is your first time here, you might like to take a look at:
Welcome to Ancient Worlds
We have a newspaper, The Acta Diurna
If you've been here awhile and as of yet don't know about article writing, read this post from Sankira Qin.
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 Adopt-an-Inmate from Megalith Mau's Correctional Facility Great Cat Necropolis - Per-Bastet - Egypt
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Popped a DemiGod I Did! Splashed Her Into a Vat of Cheesy Dormice Broccoli Soup! I Did!
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Credits: Avatar is a Photoshopped (yellowed) statue bust of the great Roman orator Cicero; Doorway courtesy of Titus Longinus (with enhancements by me); Rome: We Play Hard plaque from antiquity & my creativity with Photoshop; "If You Can't Be Good... " plaque courtesy of Sextus Crassus; Collis Caelius image is from AW; oyster graffiti is from Luna Nebet; Background tiling is from Absolute Background Textures Archive; Bibliotheca's perspective is from a Albert J Moore painting via GoodArt; Tablinum's & Hortus Frappuccino's frescos are from New Horizon's Ancient Roman Gallery; the abacus hit-counter is from Amazing Counters.
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| Found this little trinket whilst travelling in the mystical Orient; it seems to have the ability to "know" when you're here.
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All Posts (839) Messages posted by Balbas
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Balbas's 44 Groups
The Cheese Shrine
Position: Cheesemonger
Level 5
For Discussion and Study of all things CHEESY!
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PAX ROMANA
Position: General Editor
Level 5
For two centuries, 27 BC to 180 AD, the Roman Empire flowered. For historical discussions of the Caesars from Augustus to Marcus Aurelius.
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Inventions of Mankind
Position: Inventor
Level 6
For the discussion of inventions and the technologies behind them
Who were the men behind the inventions,why did they build such things and what techniques did they use?
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Licentia Poetica
Position: Scribbler
Level 2
"Words are things, and a small drop of ink,
Falling, like dew, upon a thought, produces
That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think."
Lord Byron
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Roman Africa
Position: Members
Level 2
The History of Roman Africa
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The Tenth Muse
Position: Member
Level 2
Devoted to the sharing of poetry of all periods; encouraging citizen-poets to post their own verses.
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Quantum Physics
Position: Anti-matter
Level 3
The wonderful world of physics...for dummies.
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AncientWorlds Underworld
Position: Run of the mill Minion
Level 2
For those who are Members or Minions of The Unholy Alliance.
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Ars Amatoria
Position: Reader
Level 3
Love and Lust in the Ancient Cultures
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Renaissance and Raptures
Position: Servants
Level 2
A celebration of the Tudor era and it's five unique personalites...Henry VII, Henry VIII, Edward VI, Mary I and Elizabeth I. Included in our group is the half century before the Tudor era which is commonly known as the Wars of the Roses.
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Complete List of Balbas's 44 Groups
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