You could call NASCAR, or the National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing, a successful business but that would be an understatement. NASCAR is the biggest spectators sport in America, out of the 20 highest attended sporting events, in America in 2004, 17 of them were NASCAR events. NASCAR has 75 million Americans follow NASCAR. That is one and three people in the US that follow the sport, and it’s the number two rated regular season sport on TV in America. Their was more than 2 billion dollars in licensing in 2005 and over 200 licensees.
Bobblehead - Barter | Evergreen Mills: Bazaar, in a dark cave-nook in the corner of the room to the right ofSmiling Jack. Jump over the work bench, it's on the right-most shelves. | | Bobblehead - Big Guns | Fort Constantine: CO Quarters (little bungalow), in the basement. It is in an open safe along with some caps, and the ICBM launchcode. | | Bobblehead - Energy Weapons * | Raven Rock: On the right desk in Colonel Autumn's bedroom: after you pass the huge door from section 2B to 2C, when two Enclave soldiers come out of the right door, take the left door.
Titus opened it , still unfinished and imperfect , in A .D . 80 , with impressive gladiatorial games . The amphitheatre was completed by Domitian , Titus brother and successor , and later had to be reconstructed several times because of fires due to lightning and damages due to earthquakes . The Colosseum was the largest amphitheatre in the Roman world , and modern estimates have put the capacity in the region of fifty thousand spectators . Colosseum was constructed for the purpose of gladiator fights .
In his ‘The Life of Nero,’ 25, he describes how Nero enjoyed and wore ornaments or accessories that are considered as useless and abusing. With sentence like “Returning from Greece, since it was at Naples that he had made his first appearance, he entered that city with white horses through a part of the wall which had been thrown down, as is customary with victors in the sacred games. In like manner he entered Antium, then Albanum, and finally Rome; but at Rome he rode in the chariot which Augustus had used in his triumphs in days gone by, and wore a purple robe and a Greek cloak adorned with stars of gold, bearing on his head the Olympic crown and in his right hand the Pythian, while the rest were carried before him with inscriptions telling where he had won them and against what competitors, and giving the titles of the songs or of the subject of the plays. His car was followed by his claque as by the escort of a triumphal procession, who shouted that they were the attendants of Augustus and the soldiers of his triumph.” Suetonius also criticized Nero for not doing anything for the soldiers, in ‘The Life of Nero,’ 25. “Returning from Greece, since it was at Naples that he had made his first appearance, he entered that city with white horses through a part of the wall which had been thrown down, as is customary with victors in the sacred games.
The streets were filled with horse drawn carriages and automobiles, all arriving for a night to remember. Little did the people of San Francisco know, this would be a night to remember for a whole different reason. At 5:12 AM on Wednesday April 18, 1906, a foreshock of an earthquake occurred with intense force that was felt widely throughout the entire San Francisco Bay Area. About 20 to 25 seconds later, one of the most significant
Today, people don’t even know the Etruscans language. However, we do know their type of clothing (toga). 3. In the Roman Republic, there were 2 consuls and each had veto rights. Also, there was a senate with 300 rich men.
Caesar pushed Pompey's measures through, helped Crassus' proposals, and got for himself a five-year term as Proconsul of Gaul after his consulship was over. | 58 BC | Caesar left Rome for Gaul to conquer more land for the Republic to inhabit. | 56 BC | The First Triumvirate met in Caesar's province to renew their coalition. Pompey and Crassus were to become consuls again and Caesar’s command in Gaul was extended to 49 BC. | 54 BC | Caesar led a three month expedition of the first Roman crossing of the English Channel to Britain but did not establish a permanent base there.
All of these questions are asked regarding Elvis' death, and the answers are as follows. First, a little background on his accomplishments as a singer. Through his whole career, "he sold more than 500 million records worldwide and made 33 films. He was a millionaire living in his Graceland Mansion behind locked gates." He had more money than anyone could ever dream of having.
The Slaughter of America’s Horses Any one who has wanted to travel to Europe or Asia, or go on a cross-country trip should follow along with one of many horses at local auctions. That s right, the symbols of the Wild West get to travel where most Americans will never go in their lifetime. However, its recommended that traveling and housing accommodation be booked separated from the horses. One morning they get on a trailer, a week or two later they are on plates as delicacies in other countries. For years the slaughter of horses has been a highly profitable, low guided practice and what takes place from the time killer-buyers get hold of them, to the time they become another dish, has been kept from the public.
Legend has it that Emperor Nero watched the city burn while playing a lyre. 79ad myt. vesuvius erupts and destropompei 80 AD - The Colosseum is built. One of the great examples of Roman engineering is finished. It can seat 50,000 spectators.