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The Fact of the Day Thread!! Post a fact that you find useful here :)

Archimedes was a real person, a mathematician and inventor, and didn't die in a battle, he was just killed, whereas Achilles was a legendary hero, and son of a goddess, who died in the Trojan war, which occurred (supposedly) a long time before the earliest Greek literature. Therefore, Achilles would have died hundreds of years before Archimedes was born. Klue, I wouldn't rely on Troy as a source of information about what happens in the Iliad.

While we're on the subject of heroes of the Trojan war, the phrase "between a rock and a hard place" is derived from an episode in the Odyssey when Odysseus must decide whether to sail his ship past the Syclla, a terrible creature that lives hidden, high on a cliff face (the "rock") or the Charybdis, an all-consuming whirlpool (the "hard place").
 
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I get really confused as to the which gods/demi-gods belong to the Romans or Greeks. I know the Romans stole alot of their ideas for gods but not sure about which ones.....anyone have any insight?
 
^Basically, the whole Roman pantheon was copied from the Greeks, often conflated with pre-existing Roman gods. The Romans had a tendency of identifying the deities of other cultures with their own, but the Romans were so impressed by the culture of Greece that they emulated it heavily. For instance, the Roman god Saturn was identified with the Greek titan Kronos (father of Zeus, Poseidon, Hera and Hades), and so Roman portrayals of Saturn differ somewhat from Greek portrayals, and Saturn plays a more important role. In other cases, they just appropriated and renamed the myths; the Roman heroes Hercules and Ulysses are the Greek heroes Heracles and Odysseus.
A few more of the Olympians, the name on the left is the Greek, on the right is the Roman.
Zeus - Jupiter
Poseidon - Neptune
Hera - Juno
Aphrodite - Venus
Ares - Mars
Hades - Pluto
Hermes - Mercury

There are too many to list here, This page has a pretty long list though.

I recently rediscovered my love for Classical mythology. It really is enthralling once you start to get involved. I highly recommend Homer's Odyssey to anyone, it's a great read and you get to feel clever- after all, you're reading one of the first pieces of Western literature.
 
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I have always been intrigued by Classical mythology myself but I just have soooo damn much on my plate it is hard to get into. Your explanation is perfect for my tiny attention span---thanks for the info. You are or at least seem like a very educated person just going by your posts that I have read.
 
^^^Haha....I am serious though...some people are just wiki copy/paste types...you seem like the real deal. The reason why I love bluelight(its the first online "thing" I've been apart of) is because of the general intelligence level of its members. You have to sift through alot of come and go people but you know what I mean.
 
^Hate to be a killjoy, but one- and two-humped camels are two separate species, Dromedary and Bactrian respectively.
 
^You had to expect that a "Fact of the Day Thread" was going to attract smart-arses.
 
NMI is a hard place to keep people posting.....they make their intro's and forget about those of us here in NMI :( Makes me sad but what can I do? I appreciate all of you guys(both flatlines/yerg/serkits) that post in NMI..I get lonely here!!
 
"Ingerland" is how "England" is pronounced when you're drunk and watching the football/singing loudly.
 
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NMI is a hard place to keep people posting.....they make their intro's and forget about those of us here in NMI :( Makes me sad but what can I do? I appreciate all of you guys(both flatlines/yerg/serkits) that post in NMI..I get lonely here!!
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well i'll visit ya here, it's the only place ive found thats taught me about sporked penis's, and thhatt my craappy spellingg is NotHIng to worriE aBoUt :D

here's mine for today:

If couaght in a snow Avalanche you are more likely to die buy axphixiation than being crushed or from hyperthermia.

During the first world war in the Alps invading troops were flattend by man made Avalanches, useing them strategicly by aiming artilery shells at ridges above the advancing forces and wipeing them out compleately.
 
There was a Pythagorean philosopher called Hipassus who proved that the square root of two could not be expressed as a ratio of two integers, and thus discovered the irrational numbers. Unfortunately, the Pythagoreans held that everything was a rational number (as in, literally everything that exists). Therefore, Hipassus's discovery went directly against their teachings, and he was taken out to sea and drowned.
 
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