![]() Surveying numerous aspects of life in the Roman army between 264 BCE and 337 CE, Gladius-the Latin word for sword-draws not only on the words of famed Roman historians, but also those of the soldiers themselves, as recorded in their religious dedications, tombstones, and even private letters and graffiti. Rather than a history of the army itself, or a guide to military organization and fighting methods, this book is a ground-level recreation of what it was like to be a soldier in the army that made the empire. In Gladius, Guy de la Bédoyère takes us straight to the heart of what it meant to be a part of the Roman army. The Roman Empire depended on its army not just to win its wars, defend its frontiers, and control the seas, but to act as the very engine of the state. ![]() ![]() More than that, it was the single largest organization in Western antiquity, taking in members from all classes, from senators to freed slaves. ![]() The Roman army was the greatest fighting machine in the ancient world. ![]()
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![]() ![]() She is white as snow and has scales, though only on her brow and neck, hinting that her father is actually Seath the Scaleless. Her mother is unconfirmed but that won't stop us as well as other fans from speculating: Priscilla is the only dragon crossbreed in Lordran and most likely in the game world. (speaking with her doesn't make her aggressive) If you do not wish to fight her, simply walk past her after talking to her, and proceed towards the open ledge to trigger a cutscene and your return to Anor Londo. ![]() An optional boss, she wields a giant scythe and has the ability to turn invisible. Half dragon boss found in Painted World of Ariamis. ![]() Weakness:fire,projectiles(while invisible)Ĭrossbreed Priscilla is an optional Boss in Dark Souls. ![]() ![]() ![]() Despite the variety of voices and poetic forms Newman uses (haiku, pantoum, villanelle, and others), the poems read as a somewhat repetitive chorus of rage, shame, and disgust (“I can take anything/ I’m tough as time/ But when I saw him/ between the two of them/ trapped in that truck/ it made me want to heave,” says the road). Writing from this personal viewpoint, Newman crafts 68 poems, imagining the perspectives of Shepard, his convicted killers, the stars above, the fence to which he was tied, a nearby deer, and many more. Just days after 21-year-old Matthew Shepard was killed in 1998, Newman (Heather Has Two Mommies) visited his school, the University of Wyoming, as the keynote speaker for its Gay Awareness Week. ![]() ![]() ![]() According to Pearlman’s numerous sources, Trump was, as we might expect, an aggressively unpleasant individual only interested in self-aggrandizement. The veteran sportswriter’s new history of the USFL, Football for a Buck, is happy to heap much of the blame on our current president. This thesis would get no argument from Jeff Pearlman. The other owners reluctantly agreed to the move, which, along with an ill-advised antitrust lawsuit the USFL brought against the NFL at the Donald’s insistence, contributed to the USFL’s failure. ![]() Trump, who bought the New York/New Jersey franchise, the Generals, after the league’s first season, immediately started pushing the league to switch to the fall, thus directly challenging the NFL. That upstart entity, the United States Football League, which played eighteen games every spring from 1983 through 1985, with varying degrees of popularity and success, might well have found a more permanent footing had it not been for the meddling of a brash young New York real estate developer. It was, he argues, none other than Donald J. ![]() In Mike Tollin’s 2009 documentary Small Potatoes: Who Killed the USFL?, he answers the question posed by the film’s subtitle in no uncertain terms. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Unsolicited advice that is actually really terrible. Crayon or paintbrush? It depends what I’m trying to make. If you were to get a tattoo, what would it be? Why? I think about this a lot and still have NO idea. Someone even came to a talk I was giving because she thought I was Pam. Have you been told you look like someone famous? I used to be told I look like Pam, from The Office all the time. Because he gets to say “meep,” race around happily, and he always manages to avoid falling objects and dynamite. ![]() Quirky Questions If you were a cartoon, who would you be? And why? The Roadrunner. For more info, visit her website, blog, Facebook, and Twitter. Jo lives in Vermont with her husband and son. Some of her awards include a New York Times Editor’s Choice and Notable Book of 2012, Amazon’s Best Middle Grade Books of 2012, An International Reading Association Favorite 2012 Book, an American Library Association Notable of 2012, two SCBWI Crystal Kite Awards, the PEN New England Children’s Book Discovery Award, and YALSA’s Best Fiction for Young Adults. Introducing Jo… Jo Knowles is the author of Living with Jackie Chan, See You At Harry’s, Pearl, Jumping Off Swings, and Lessons from a Dead Girl. ![]() |