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Numismatic and History Discussion Forums => Ancient Coin Forum => Topic started by: Alex on June 15, 2002, 06:12:45 am
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This is a very silly ideea, but it thrives on most forums.
I dont have one with me yet, everytime i tried to scan my face, the scaner collapsed. Now its at repairs again. Joking.
I certainly have a photo here, ill have a look for it later.
So lets see you!
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While I suspect this is all just a ruse, that Alex might learn just how "Bella" BellaSanta is ;), let me be the first to post my pic: Many thanks to LordBest and Alex for posting this picture of me in my natural habitat--on the couch with my kitty and TV remote in hand.
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Me 2.5 years ago. ::) In desperate need of a haircut... Give me a few weeks and Ill be able to post a picture of myself in full chainmail wielding a broadsword. 8)
LordBest. 8)
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I just know I am going to live to regret this one. Bound to be some stalker out there who's been waiting for an opportunity like this.
Well, here's the link that'll be the death of me http://www.hj.se/jibs/research/emm_faculty/emm_henrik_agndal.htm
Automan (who wishes he did not look quite so smug on the picture)
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I wasnt expecting models of Greek perfection, but gawds, it was worse than I epected.:P ;D ;D Joking...
Mayadigger. :P
LordBest. 8)
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Not the wreath, but i have the toga, and the tunic. Fro my Byzantine reenactor outfit. 8) Identical to Roman clothing in most things. Here is something taken several years ago, in th above mentioned toga. ::)
Can you say, "OH MY GOD ITS NERO!"? ::) :( :-\
LordBest. 8)
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Hey, mates!
Uhuh, i think, I'm the youngest here? And maybe even the thinnest? :P :P :P ;D ;D
So, if you don't mind, i will post a pic of me...
I am the one to the left, unfortunately you can't see much of my face, 'cause of the glass of beer I was just getting down.
to the right there are two friends of mine, Mark and Andy.
I'm looking forward to your reactions! ;D :D ;)
K.
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Rugser claims he is 73 or so, but i dont believe it :)
Heres a newer one of me.
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Its the center of Bucharest, near the Parlament House which is the third (maybe second) largest building in the world 8)
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Nah, those are sort of huts. The Pentagon is the largest, followed by ours or another one then ours. Remeber we are considering volume not height. Height wise, I knew some television tower in Russia was the tallest.
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Hello Alex,
The House of the people or casa Poporului in Romanian is still the second largest building in the world,
I've been there a few times when I was wandering through the centre of Bucuresti, Its realy huge to see!!!! mostly I was there at the Netherlands Embassy because I had to arrange papers for my wife ( I'm married with an Romanian girl)
I never was inside this building but sure I would like to see whats in there! I like the city very much anyway ;D
In about 4 weeks I will be on a 4 week long holiday in Romania,
Decebal
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I was in NW England in February and visited Hadrian's wall in beautifully and unseasonably warm weather...
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Haha Maya I see you there in the cartoon, let us know what happens after you pull the rope ;D ;D ;D
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Mayà
.....you won't have my scalp also.... :D :D :D :D
ser
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Wolf
When I will have a my decent photo she will show to you.
You know that the old men don't love their photo.... my will be the photo of an old man of 76 years. ;D ;D
Above I have wanted to joke with Mayadigger.. he looks for a my photo like one search one "scalp.". I have put the my smaller niece plays " do the Indian.".
Here to Rome when it is told "do the Indian" it also means that doesn't want to be understood.. .it is a way of think "levantine" (of the middle east).. very distant from your Anglo-Saxon mentality. .
Now has embarked with a speechify that I don't know like it there will have returned from the "Translator."
Hi
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me after visiting a nice rusted shipwreck earlier this month.....
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Where was that? I used to live in Cornwall, wrecks there usually last a few days before the storms break them up. They're all right as long as there's no dead bodies involved, but I'll never forget the night they lost a ship (due to bad design, the air inlets to the engines were too low and let water get in the diesel) and a lifeboat with all hands, and a second ship disappeared without trace somewhere not too far away.
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and now we are so busy posting pics,
Here are some of me
this one is on my marriage day
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and the next 2 are some years ago when I was still in "rock and roll" ;)
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so I did loose some hair in the last 3 years and put on a kilo or 2......
decebal ;)
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me and the guys who are going to have to figure out what to do with Dad's coin collection one day... ;D
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My picture got lost :'(
Here is a picture of me (Chip) taken by Magistra (Susie) while I was being unfaithful to my coin hobby and was messing around with another hobby, digital photography.
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I should have a nice, new picture of me in my reenactment gear sometime in the next few days. :) also, ill post the picture of me drunk mentioned ages ago. Now, to build up anticpation, hers a picture of my cat: ::)
(http://lordbest.napoleonicmedals.org/moppy1.jpg)
LordBest. 8)
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Now, to build up anticpation, hers a picture of my cat.
Bah! You call this a cat? ;)
Here's a picture of me with a cat! I feel this is slightly equivalent to the beast that JD holds on his lap! ;D
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Here's me and the family
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I'm second from the right. Yes, i know my bloody helmet is on crooked but if you were wearing a helmet three times too big for you it woudl slide around on you, too. >:( And i dont have a stupid grin on my face, friggen distorting helmet.
(http://lordbest.napoleonicmedals.org/lal_lal.jpg)
Oh, thats my reenactment group, the New Varangian Guard Antioch Branch. Ive got better armour since then too.
LordBest. 8)
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Just thought I'd inflict my image on you all as well ..................
Alex.
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After some deliberation I have decided to post an image of myself. This one is of me (the one in the spectacles) and my son. I also have a daughter and one on the way!!!
Maridvnvm
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OK, I'll share, Aug. 2001 in Jena:
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A latest photo of me...I very rarely show up on film. This was taken a few days ago as my lovely part of the world, the Northeast of the US, was getting its usual "blizzard like conditions". We're expecting over 170 inches this season...whoopee!! BTW... that's my 3 year old son helping me with the lazyman's snowman. ;D
Ken
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Jeez Ken, I hope you're a lot farther North in NY than I am.... 170 inches!!! We just got 20 and I'm sick of it!
BTW.. nice snowman, but it looks like it's spent too much time at the head-shrinker.... 8)
Peter
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Yep...good ole' central upstate New York. Last year we broke records at 155 inches and this year is expected to make last year look like a "dusting" of snow. Can't wait! >:( ;)
Ken
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I saw some snow once. Reminded me of sheep. I dont like sheep. Was falling out of the sky it was. The snow, not the sheep. Very unnatural. >:(
LordBest. 8)
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I'm beginning to wonder how many of us are in central or western NY. I know TKE and dad are in Rochester but now KKJr and Bluefish are 'fessing up. I've always felt a little isolated here in Buffalo, I know No other collector here. Maybe we can form a WNY chapter!
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I saw some snow once. Reminded me of sheep. I dont like sheep. Was falling out of the sky it was. The snow, not the sheep. Very unnatural. >:(
LordBest. 8)
LB,
I thought that the anipodeans were fond of sheep... ;) especially for social occasions
Maridvnvm
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Yeah, but most antipodeans werent chased around a paddock by a hoard of vicious sheep at age 5. >:(
LordBest. 8)
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It is rather humerous to look back on,but its left me with a strong hatred of sheep, but a very, very strong taste for lamb. 8) Those little bastard chased me round the paddock for 15 minutes before someone opened the gate to let me out. :(
LordBest. 8)
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I got chased by a mad pig when I was nine. Lucky I climbed over the gate quick, those things will really chew you up.
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Ok, figure I'll join the mugshots. The one they have up at the post office wasn't very flattering, so here's one with the wife-to-be. (Hopefully). A woman who actually thinks my coins are "neat". Who's luckier than me? 8)
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Oooops. Sorry. Didn't think it would be life-size. :-\
Gotta read the manual on this scanner.
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Alas, it's time for me to throw my face into the mix. The pictures a tad old, but I haven't changed much, except height wise. Just look at those evil, hollow eyes... :P Lookin' foreward to your reactions... :P
Evan the gorgon 8)
ps. I know, the tan is weird. I had long hair that summer and spent the entire time sailing, then got my hair cut. Bad idea.
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Evan, a Canadian with a tan!!!? - In January !! (must have been a summer photo, 'eh?) . Today it is -34 where I live. We were the coldest place on the planet this week. On Monday we broke a temperature record with -53 windchill . Today we are going to have a blizzard with 10 centimeters of snow and deep cold warning. I plan on cleaning a few coins by the fireplace!! (No tan 8))
It was taken just a week into Sept, after I had spent 4 weeks sailing Lasers and 420's. Feel sorry for all you interior folk... it's a balmy 6 degree C right now and CLEAR SKYS!! That's a first for the west coast...
Evan 8)
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In Jardin de Louxembourg, Paris, this Christmas.
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Brugges, Belgium, a week ago.
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And a most beautiful city if I may add.
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Here is a quite realistic picture of me from the Comic Festival in Angouleme last year, a scetch made by a comic artist. I'm in my 'professional comic festival clothes' with my scetchbook in front of me.
Jochen
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Jochen: If you ever decide to make a few extra dollars in your spare time, walk into any Central Casting office....I can think of many different roles you would be perfect for, spanning many eras. ;)
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Hi Bluefish!
I will discuss this with my wife. Perhaps so I can get some more bucks for coins!
Jochen
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hi thats me and my daughter maryam ,in hostrical city GERASA at jordan,she like ancient coins alot heheh.
salem
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Very nice Salem to see you for the first time!
So here's me, teaching colosseo info to my friend from University of Sherbrooke.
Plato
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As you can see, the colloseo is my favorite monument...
Martin
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After almost a year in the forum i decided to pick a picture of all my family:
Here are my wife, Rocío, our sons, Alejandro and Ignacio, 5 and 4 years old and our daughter, Ana, 20 months, and me.
Ignacio.
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This one was taken a few months ago at a gallery show in Palm Beach. ;) Simon
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Shushhhhhhh don't tell anyone I'm on the internet!!!!! HE is listening!
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No, that's not a sunburn... just bad photography!
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Hi
Probably regret this but wedding last year in Venice photo - Im on left!
Cheers
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As per request, here's another pic of me. A bit out my element...
The quiz of the day: Where am I?
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I wild guess ;D Gamla Stan on the Stockholm Tunnelbana.
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The quiz of the day: Where am I?
New York city, Times Square subway station, possibly the IRT 2/3 Broadway express downtown track....
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I have no idea where you are, but is that Mercury behind you with the glowing shoes?
Rhetor
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I'm going to guess 45th and Lexington. Platform is too clean for Times Square, and the aliens (Glowing-sneaker man) don't stand out so much aroung the 42nd St. area............ ;D
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If you look at the sign behind Hermes' head it says union square.
I do not typically make use of public transportation (except when flying, of course, or unless I absolutely have to take the train), but the person I was travelling with was a lot more adventurous than I, so I made an exception.
Driving around Manhattan (in a rental car) for a few hrs was one of the highlights of the trip (driving there I truly felt in my element!), although we soon determined that it would not be very practical to keep the car for the duration of our stay in NY (we'd driven to NY from outside the state).
Auto
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Here is a picture of me from about 5 years ago. The hair is a little longer and grayer, and I have a few more wrinkles.
As a little background, I live on a tropical island in the Western Pacific. The island I live on is called Tinian. It is about 5 miles wide and 10 miles long. It is part of the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, a little known part of the United States.
I have been coin collecting for about 25 or 30 years. I started out with US coins and slowly moved to ancients in the last 10 or 15 years. I speciallize in coins from the Middle East and Southeast Asia.
Howard Cole
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LOL...its just a perspective thing. I am sure there are Roman pillars that can dwarf a man that much. But the perspective works. The Pillar is in York and is outside Yorkminster. Ok.....here is me. You will admit I am handsome :D
Oh the jokes I could have.... alas my good friend I cannot wound you in such a manner.
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Is this informal enough? Taken by a four-year-old friend.
P.L.
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Good Lord Pat, the four year old takes better pictures than half the adults I know, including some Wedding photographers I've worked with! Perfectly centered, no "red eye", your head isn't cut off.....
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The Yorkshire (UK) branch of the Board on their Christmas "do" at the old Roman city of Eboracvm. The redeye is the camera - not the fault of the empty bottles! ::) ;D
From the left Adrianus, Lee Toone and Mauseus.
A very merry Christmas to each and every one of you. May your stockings be full of rattling silver, bronze and maybe even gold! ;)
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Hey, I choose the same place for my Honeymoon 12 years ago. We toured the Yucatan Peninsula looking at about four or five different Mayan sites. It was a nice two weeks.
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This one's only about a year old...
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To commemorate my fairly recent promotion to Praetorian, I thought I'd inflict two pictures on all of you. The first was taken two years ago in the lovely Tuscan hill town of Cortona; Lake Trasimene is in the background. And the other...
Rhetor
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...is my alter ego. Thangyouverymuch.
Rhetor
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Here is a fairly recent pic of me. This one didn't make it into the official file because it isn't so great, but I can't find an e-copy of the better one.
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Page 6 clearly shows that ancient coins transcend age, rank and music tastes!
Magistra
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My 85 year-old father is sitting next to me. (picture March 18th)
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Gunner - Almost time for the hospital? She's barely showing!! Your lovely wife will appreciate a petite 'Gunnerette' - both my boys came in at roughly 11 pounds!
Here's me and my pal Maggie.
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Here is my latest one week old pic :)
Alex
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Where was that taken? I wish I still had my old climbing photos but they were lost in a fire years ago.
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In the Carpathians, on an obscure 6000ft peak. Mountains have become my second largest mania besides coins lately :)
Sorry to hear about your pics. I guess another advantage for the digital pics we take today...
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Well, I guess it's my turn. Photo is of three bums in Jacksonville, Florida, and one good woman (married to the bum in the middle). I'm the one on the left, teaching that palm tree a lesson it won't ever forget. ;)
I pondered what photo to post here. Finally settled on this one. Never had big adventures. Don't have cool photos of me while traveling around the world. Just a pretty normal guy. And some of the members of the boards no doubt recognize that daily life can be a pretty big adventure sometimes, and that is fine too.
Three pretty normal, average, middle-aged guys. All of us missing one leg each. Two years ago the three of us rode bicycles as a team from Seattle, WA to Jacksonville, FL. Visited with amputee support groups along the way, as well as 15 rehab hospitals. With the notable exception of my marriage and my children, the single best thing I've done in my life to date. I am more proud of this than anything else. So it's a worthy topic to share, I guess.
Mark
PS -- check out www.amputeesacrossamerica.com for info about the folks doing the ride this year (from San Diego to Boston).
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In the Carpathians, on an obscure 6000ft peak. Mountains have become my second largest mania besides coins lately :)
Sorry to hear about your pics. I guess another advantage for the digital pics we take today...
I agree, climbing mountains can get as addictive as collecting coins. When I was younger, I climbed over 50 peaks in one summer in the Casades and Sierra Nevadas of California and a few random peaks in Nevada and Utah. But that was a long time ago and before I moved to a tropical island and had a kid.
I did talk my wife into climbing Mt. Kina Balu, 4101 meters, on Borneo while she had just gotten pregnant with our daughter. It has the biggest stairway in the world. You really get tried of steps after awhile.
Now I live on a tropical island, in the Mariana Islands, with the highest point is 200 meters. I do spend some time walking in the jungles and exploring caves. You never know what you will find in the jungle because of all that is left over from when the Japanese ruled this area and World War II. Still find live bombs in the jungle, which adds a little adventure to the hiking.
By the way, a volcano three islands (Anatahan) north of us sent a cloud of ash over my islands (Tinian) a week and a half ago. It made the sky dark around 10:30 AM to about 1 PM. I have added a picture of the sun that was taken around 10:30 in the morning. It also made a great sunset. I have added another picture of my daughter at the beach on that day.
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If I had the money to go gadding around the world I don't think wild horses would drag me away from volcanoes! Of all nature's wonders, those are the ones which fascinate me yet. I've never seen one in action yet, but I will.
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If I had the money to go gadding around the world I don't think wild horses would drag me away from volcanoes! Of all nature's wonders, those are the ones which fascinate me yet. I've never seen one in action yet, but I will.
I was descending Ampato in May 2000 when Sabancaya boomed a column of ash and caused a "slush slide" shooting down the next arroyo.
You can have them.
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That sort of stuff's scary. I once sat in a valley off Glencoe in a sudden thaw and watched half a dozen gullies avalanche one after the other. Not the time to be caught in one!
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My scariest experience up there was the first time I went in winter, I set out for a walk and ended up hepling to carry down my first dead body, a walker who was going along the edge of the cornice in a near whiteout (!!!!!!!!!). The inevitable happened, she fell through, went almost 1000 feet down the mountainside, and died as we were carrying her down to cloudbase to meet the helicopter. Not nice at all, she was screaming all the way till she died.
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Hi Robert,
How long were you up here for? Did you do voluntary work with the Mountain Rescue?
Alex.
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I was around most winters in the latter half of the '70's, and got involved with all sorts of stuff.
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Same era as me. Fort William was my home from home throughout the seventies and early eighties. I always brought in the New Year there.
Alex.
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I used to live down south and just go up when I could get away, unfortunately. I'd have given a lot to live at Fort Bill or anywhere up there.
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The moment you have all not been waiting for, an up to date pic of me. :P Dressed as an 11th century Byzantine soldier, sans armour.
LordBest. 8)
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LB, you continue to terrorize me!
Evan :o
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Ok let's face facts, here I am... After giving up hoping that I'll get a good pic of mine within a decent amount of time I made one myself; this is about correct, makes me neither uglier nor better-looking than I really am. 39 years, 180 cm, 90 kg. Note the Roma beside my neck :).
Rupert
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Ave!
Well, here's something you don't do every day...hand-feeding stingrays. 8)
Just back from Grand Turk Island, BWI. These pix were taken on the tiny island of Gibb's Caye where the stingrays come in every afternoon to get some easy dinner. Below is a big Atlantic Ray (3.5 feet tip-to-tip and about 75 pounds) coming right at you! :o
Below is me, feeding the rays in about one foot of water. Swimming with them was another story.... ::)
Lot's of fun!
Kevin
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In the early 90's, before my daughter was born, I got a chance to SCUBA drive with Manta Rays in the German Channel at Yap. I also enjoyed looking at the displays of stone money in several of the different villages we visited.
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Ave!
Hi Guns! Ava's a real cute kid, my friend; you must have been holding your mouth just right! ;)
Posted by: hcole_1989 Posted on: Yesterday at 11:58:09 PM
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In the early 90's, before my daughter was born, I got a chance to SCUBA drive with Manta Rays in the German Channel at Yap. I also enjoyed looking at the displays of stone money in several of the different villages we visited.
Howard, funny you should mention it. Sheri and I are off to Micronesia in November to scuba dive with the Mantas on Yap and hang with the sharks on Palau. Too Cool!
Posted by: ancientcoins Posted on: Yesterday at 08:08:10 PM
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wow kevin! on my april vacation, i went to stingray city in the grand cayman islands... stingrays up to about 5 feet long! u know i was white going into the water, lol. but once i touched my first one and just glided by, brushing against me, i was fine. the feeding scared me though! the thing was a vacuum, and almost sucked my hand right in with the squid! also, when are you new uncleaneds going to be put up? and is the price still $1.85?
andrew
Andy, you're lucky you kept your fingers OUT of their mouths. Those suckers have real crushers!
K
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Hi Mayadigger,
I live in Micronesia, so I have been to most of the different areas. Can't say I have been to most of the islands, since there are thousands of them.
I have been to Palau (the wall dives are great!), Yap, Truk (didn't like the people, but great diving), Majuro (in the Marshall Islands), Pohnopei and Kosrae. I have also been on all the settled islands in the Mariana Islands and one of the active volcanic islands up north (Pagan).
If any one makes it out to Tinian, I will be happy to show you around, except during June or July. We are in California during that time. By the way, there is a big sixtieth anniversary of the atomic bomb dropping happening here in August. Four of the crewmembers, including Tibbits, of the Enola Gay will be here.
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Seeing all the Mountain pictures posted on this link makes me feel at home and has inspired me to post some of my own.I will give a brief decription of the pics from left to right.
1.That's me (in red circle) belaying the last pitch of the arduous 4000 ft ice and rock west face of Huanya Potosi alt.20,000+ ft.This was done in one 26 hour continuous push.Pic taken by an associate meeting up with us for much needed supplies and assistance.
2.Climbing 150ft wall of "plastic"(perfect climbing) ice on a glacier above base camp.
3.Me "zenning" out at a base camp before ascending what turned out to be an epic ascent during hurricane force winds of a 21,000ft peak in Bolivia.
The next set of pictures is why I became semi-retired from Mountain guiding and other extreme adventures.With another reason on the way in Nov.
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I never got that far afield, but I used to do plenty on Scottish ice some years ago.
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ice..... in a malt...???
Thats a waste of good malt.
:-[ Decebal
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The sweaty old man is me (after helping my son lug a 200 lb dresser from my house to his)! The beautiful angel is my brand new grand daughter, Sarah, born on the 17th of May, 2005!!
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Congratulations indeed. I must admit that with my youngest being 15 months now you start to forget that they were ever that small!
Regards,
Martin
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what a beautiful granddaughter!! Make sure to spoil her rotten ;)
Jim
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Scotland varies from day to day. You can get gorgeous snow-ice, when everything's easy, then you get a thaw and it can vanish just like that. I once saw a 50-foot icicle come away from the rock (it was thawing hard and there was water running down the back of it) with a climber attached. He was OK, he just swung out of the way on a peg. Of cource, I was immediately below, traversing across to get to the safer slabs round the corner. We were moving together, I don't know how I managed to stay put, and I finished the climb (Tower Ridge on the Ben) with concussion. Then another time you get half an inch of verglas, nothing grips, and the easy routes become hard. You're dead right about the weather; I was once involved in rescuing a walker who was blown off her feet and several yards sideways on Bidean nam Bian in Glencoe (God alone knows what they were doing up there; I was hard put to it to keep my feet on the road); she went over the edge into a gully, and fortunately for her, kept a grip of her axe. She just about managed to stop, with several broken ribs, just short of the rocks 500 feet down.
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me and my best friend tonite :)
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Hello Seth,
Well thats my friend tonight to... to be honest on most saturday nights ;)
Why not drinkin Ciuc? To me thats one of the better Romanian bere...
Of course I like bere Ursus too and Silva... in about 4 weeks I will drink lots of those again on my holiday I think....
Decebal
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Forgot to say noroc! :)
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The world has waited long enough for a pic of me in all my glory! Here I am, speaking at an academic conference (in Egypt) a few months ago. The audience response wasn't too good, well, there wasn't an audience, apart from the camerawoman. Still, "England expects that every man will do his duty" - and I did.
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P.S. They had decided to start an hour later, and informed all the conference participants - except for the first speaker. My colleague and I couldn't resist staging a photo...
Anyway, an hour later they all turned up and I socked it to them!
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Well, this is me having had a long day (first picture).
The second picture shows my beloved girlfriend Tamara (got this one: https://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/displayimage.php?album=560&pos=0 and this one: https://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/displayimage.php?album=561&pos=1 from her :)) trying to open a bottle of champagne (It's an older picture though, at the age of 18).
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She had passed some sunny weeks in France when I took this picture... at least it's a bit more up-to-date, at the age of almoust 20.
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Very attractive young lady! Lucky you :)
Gunner
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Yes, she would look great on a sestertius.
Rupert
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Thanks to you both! I will pass the compliments on to the government ;)
Regards
Lars
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Hi,
Took the plunge and tried to take a pic of me this morning. The confused look is me reaching for the camera wondering why it has not gone off.... and then it did ::)
The background is home, right in the heart of the "norn iron" countryside. Belfast is about 30 miles behind the brown cow to the right ;D
All the best
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Nice! That an M-16? Did you torch that Vehicle? lol Now..that must be FUN!
Its an AR-15, a Bushmaster 20" Hbar A2. Yeah, the car was donated by a local sheriff's dept where we gather to shoot, and it didn't make the day without going up in smoke.
I know where you can get a cheap Dodge Astrovan, no money down. ;) Its a fixer-upper!
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some more ice for those that prefer it to a stay at home :)
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I don't have many pictures of myself, but this one re-surfaced recently. It's a bit old (1992) but I don't think I've changed that much. I look very sporty with all those names emblazoned across my T-shirt, but don't be fooled (the tummy's a giveaway). I'm sitting outside the Montjuic stadium in Barcelona where I was assisting NBC with their coverage of the Olympics. And it wasn't all sitting down drinking cold drinks either!
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Some pics of me and my wife on honeymoon in Greece (about 2 years ago now)
Nico
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My god, Nico! Are you a giant or is your wife only 4 foot 6 inches tall?
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I'm 1 of the surviving giants who fought against Zeus ;D.
I'm 1.94m. Thats about 76 inches. (between 6 and 7 feet??)
The picture together is from Olympia.
The picture alone is taken in ancient Corinth, in front of the temple of Apollo
Beneath myself and my wife.
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The quality of the pictures isn't so good :-\.
But it was taken with my first digital camera.
The last 2: me as Hercules and my wife as Xena, the warrior princess ;D
Grtz,
Nico
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She has a great smile, Nico. And she buys you denari. You are indeed a lucky, lucky man.
I also noticed you with a beer in front of you, no doubt upholding national honor (Belgium is the source of the best beer in the world, isn't it? ;))
Mark
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ANOTHER Nice Looking Lady! Are we all married to supermodels?
Gunner
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No, darn it, but most of us got better than we deserved.
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Thanks guys, for your sweet comments.
I will pass it to my wife. ;D
Belgium has indeed the best beer in the world.
But sadly enough, in Greece they had only dutch beer :-\.
That like drinking the water you have washed your dishes in...
But it was warm then,...so I would have drunk everything. 8)
Nico
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for the guys: 1 more pic of my wife ;D
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and me as emperor Nicolus Augustulus in Delphi
(that was the last one (promised ;)))
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But sadly enough, in Greece they had only dutch beer :-\. That like drinking the water you have washed your dishes in...
Well, I admit that I like Duivels, but boy, if you offer me a Heineken, I won't say no too! And I don't care if you call it a mass market product ;)
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Another of the wife and kiddo :)
Gunner
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If you all save your coin money for a year
You know exactly that this isn't possible ;D
But you can come over here to Switzerland to try Seeland Bräu, Felsenau, Ueli Bier etc. ;)
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I've always had a soft spot for Hoegaarden (and "the forbidden fruit"). I was in Brussels in March and brought loads back. Which reminds me........ :D
-:Bacchus:-
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Roland my friend, on this picture you're looking like some communist guerilla fighter! ;D
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The latest foto of me and my wife here on our holiday in Romania
Taken somewhere near the Bran Castle aka as the Castle of Dracula.....
Decebal
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2 more from our honeymoon in Greece.
A friend of mine and myself at the entrance of the stadion in Olympia and the stadion itself.
But it's a pity that the quality of the pics isn't that great :-\.
Grtz,
Nico
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Thank you, Lars. It looks like you are a nice and clever boy ;)
;D *rofl* (I believe this means "rolling of laughing" and is some kind of chat language, but who knows... ???)
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ROFL means "rolling on the floor laughing". ;)
andrew
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Thanks, now I've learned something very important ;D
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I pray this works this time..........Victory!?!
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BBrrrrr Eduardo.... is very could ! !
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The latest foto of me and my wife here on our holiday in Romania
Taken somewhere near the Bran Castle aka as the Castle of Dracula.....
Decebal
Is that a sluice box in lower right of the pic? ;)
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Here are Namissa and I out for our 10th wedding anniversary last week at the local Vietnamese. You can see I'm looking a bit bleary; I was coming down with a chest infection which brought me to a grinding halt for a bit, which is why I didn't post the pic earlier.
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Hi
That's me in my preferite beach in Sardinia
Plinius
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Ave!
I am both Peruvian and Belgian. I love Belgian beer and the high Andes (as a sight not to
climb) The highest mountain in Perú is the Huascaran (6768 mt about 18,000 ft) and today my wife and older son are very close to it. Make up your minds and come down and see it.
Eduardo
If you don't enjoy the beers from the Belgian Trappist Monks, you have a dead palate.
Besides, drinking is fun...or at least as seen on this sign photoed on Caye Chaulker, a tiny coral atoll 15 miles of the coast of southern Belize, POP 315.
[See first photo below]
Hoo Haa! Ain't that grand...and I give you joy! You certainly won't find an advertisement like this in the USA or Europe, either. But I give them 4 stars for honesty.
And speaking of drinking.... ::)
Just a few months back, (stay with me, now) Sheri and I scuba-dived on Grand Turk, a smallish island in the British West Indies, POP 2,300. One day, we dived off the coast of an even smaller island, Salt Caye, POP 74. After our two dives, we lunched in the only open restaurant/bar on the island. The proprietor challenged me, or anyone else, to take a shot of all five of his various animal-named brews...and still stand up.
Well! Not being one too let the USA down, I went for it, dispite Sheri's misgivings...and that's not a good thing, trust me.
Here's pix of my third drink.
[See second photo below]
And after...
[See third photo below]
DOH! Happy, happy Kevin! ::)
Here's my souvinier...Wolf!
[See fourth photo below]
And last but not least, here's a photo of Sheri (SWMBO) having fun sitting on the double-headed Jaguar throne of the ruling lord of Uxmal, located before the House of the Govenors, Yucatan, Mexico.
[See fifth photo below]
The interesting thing about this throne is that it was not discovered "in situe", rather it was returned to the surface from where it had been inturned 500 years in the past by two of the most colorful and insiteful explorers that you could ask for - Stephens and Catherwood (God bless them both!), circa 1840.
K
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Curses! My secret winery in the Caribean has been discovered!
Evan
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This is a picture of me in Heidelberg.
Andreas
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Hi Andreas!
If you had taken the pic from the other side of the Neckar we would have seen you together with the Heidelberger Schloß!
Best regards
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MY GIRLFRIEND AND I =)
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Not as big as the other, but still pleasant to catch
Nico
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Hello All,
Just got home from vacation in New York and had a great time. If you call a great time spending too much, eating too much and drinking too much! This snap was taken prior to a New York Yankees game with my bride of 15 years next to me. Oh, the things she tolerates.
Kelly
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ok. finally, I have decided to show you my picture! ;D
This is me at an excavation this summer in Israel, at Gat, the most powerful of the five Philistine cities. If you look to the lower right, there is one of my bigger finds, a small Iron II A juglet, completely intact 8). After this picture, I found another one sitting next to it.
~Zach
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nice! so, howd you get to dig at an excavation site in israel?
andrew
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I've got connections. 8)
No, just kiding. My grandmother's friend (an egyptologist) suggested that I go on a dig with him, but the US state department wouldn't let me, because I was under 17 and without a gaurdian. So I ended up finding one on line (dig-gath.org) and applying. This was one of the few that allowed 16 and up, as opposed to 18 and up. So I was there for three weeks doing archaeology! It was awesome. I highly recomend this one, it is very "volunteer" oriented. (I put it in quotes because my friend described it as very much like the whitewashing scene in Tom Sawyer, because you have to pay to do it).
~Zach
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Kelly -- thankfully you realized in time that a visit to the big apple requires paying homage at Yankee Stadium vs. that silly, pathetic place out on the island -- shea stadium (caps not warranted). ;D
Zach -- Oh, man, you've got to tell more about that time at the dig in Israel.... Maybe under the Archaeology board?
Mark
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Thought I would bump this topic up to the top.
Kelly
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Might as well update my pic... me on a Cadet field exercise with some of my webbing in the wilds of British Columbia, and another in Alberta.
Evan
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Alright, I've finally learned how to use iPhoto!
Here's me a few days ago, posing for a picture to send for the Brown application...
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Very nice! Do you have one of the cameras on which you can turn the monitor around so that you can look to frame your own photo? Or have you an iMac G5 allowing you to photograph yourself sending yourself an e-mail? Pat L.
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no... that would be nice. I meant I never knew how to downsize the picture from 900 KB to under 250. But finally I learned. :) I had someone else take my picture.
I love Macs, but it was just this particular thing that I could never figure out.
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Well here's a bit of a fun one - Here's my new set of legionary armor (minus the helmet, sword and caligae). It made a great Halloween costume, and I completed the look by drinking limoncello from a non-Roman era glass mug.
Sorry for the darkness of the picture - It was taken indoors and without a flash. But I ain't putting that armor back on just for a picture - it's harder to get in and out of than you might think! ;)
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Since it's a long time ago that I posted a pic:
here is one of my wife and daughter this summer on holiday in Croatia.
Nico
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I wish people would quit posting pictures of themselves and post more pictures of their wives. How 'bout it sseverus?
Although I see Pat like's the guy pictures. I guess you can keep posting th guy pictures for Pat (and Curtis who took an interest in basemetal's picture). Just messing with you Curtis.
Barry Murphy
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OK, Barry, here's my boy. Somewhere I have the photo a Viennese photographer took of me, kneeling, while I was taking this picture. Basemetal's light on the shoulders did greatly remind me of him. If I can find that photo, I promise I'll post it. Unhappily, Michelangelo only saw the Belvedere torso and the Laocoon, much inferior works; he would have loved this one, which, I cannot prove but strongly suspect, was made for one of the kings of Pergamon. That time. More or less that region, too, though the artists had long traveled widely. From where I was kneeling masked only by a Nikon, the picture is pretty funny. Pat L.
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Alright, I've finally learned how to use iPhoto!
Here's me a few days ago, posing for a picture to send for the Brown application...
By "Brown Application" I assume you mean University? Why would a university require a picture?
Although I see Pat like's the guy pictures. I guess you can keep posting th guy pictures for Pat (and Curtis who took an interest in basemetal's picture). Just messing with you Curtis.
Barry Murphy
lol! I don't think we've seen a picture of you yet Barry!
Evan
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I've seen Barry. He's a young guy (mid to late 30's I'd guess). I pegged him to be much older from his knowledge base.
He did call me a "Perv" accusing me of purchasing my CTG barb because of the explicit exergue! and now this? He wants to see all of our wives? PERV!!!!!!!!
Gunner :tongue:
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I read the first sentence of your post and then saw the picture... ;D
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This one is espescially for Barry:
another pic of my wife.
Btw Barry, can I now have discount in the future when I buy some coins of yours? :tongue:
Nico
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She's a little hairy, but what the heck.....to each his own!
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Hey this is me :)
(http://www.radioactive-lizard.com/images/Photos/INRACI/regie/002.jpg)
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What an effort only to take a pic of a coin!
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Poor? You look pretty rich to me!! Congratulations! When is the new little coin collector due?
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Thanks!
The boy is due in March...A little nervous about the whole thing but hope I can manage not to faint in the delivery room. :)
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Evan -- yeah, the university, and for some reason, they require a picture...it's the only one I'm applying to that does that. Maybe they only admit good looking people so they can make a good impression when people visit... :tongue:
Well, after all these pictures, it looks like there is some hope for coin collectors after all! ;D
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Thanks!
The boy is due in March...A little nervous about the whole thing but hope I can manage not to faint in the delivery room. :)
Ecoli, don't bother, the midwives will be used to fainting fathers-to-be ;), and it's such an overwhelming experience that it's not a shame to faint IMHO. I didn't faint at the birth of my three boys, but after my eldest son was born, I cried with relief and happiness like I think I never did in my life.
This is me with the boys last summer.
Rupert
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You have wonderful boys Rupert...
Do you allow them to handle your coins? ;)
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Dear ecoli,
Now we shall keep you in our thoughts most hopefully, just as we did Gunner before his little girl came. Your wife is lovely.
Pat L.
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You must also remember that the delivery room is sort of like Las Vegas....whatever is said or done stays there. I was nearly knocked senseless with a steel bed pan...though in hind sight the comment that my soon to be born son must have inherited my nose and thats what was holding things up was probably better left unsaid. ::)
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Joe...... Your little angel has that special look that says he just realized that he could use your coin collection to buy candy and ice cream!!!
Bob
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Thankfully he is very insistent that green coins are Daddy's. He's very good at finding the odd stray one that fell off the desk
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Hello
I guess we have drifted (ok collapsed) into family pictures ie. 'Post a pic of you' is now 'Post a pic of any children/newborns!'
So here goes, Aiyana Sofia Boggis aged couple of days...and erm me - the pig was walking past and wanted in on the photo
Brgds
Alex
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Since we're posting pics of family, here's Olakumbi, my elder girl, who's definitely not interested in coins, allotments or beekeeping, but shares some of my tastes in literature.
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........... and these are my offspring, taken in the summer, like Robert's none of them have any interest in coins except those that can be spent in the shops. :'(
Alex.
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With my three boys, I still have hopes that they'll get interested; a little they are already. I let them handle the not-so-important ones.
Rupert
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Robert...... I never had the joy of having a daughter, but I confess that none of my sons shared my zeal for any of my interests or hobbies. Respectfull of their father, yes, but I can still see their eyes roll when I tried to inspire them with my passion of the moment!!!
Bob
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Kumbi's the only one who's interested in my writing, but apart form that, nothing. I'm sure I'm not the only one who gets a bit discouraged at times. 'I am not going to that allotment. It is muddy, and there are bees. They will sting.' Aargh!
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Well one might have a point on the bee stinging thing.... ::)
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........... and these are my offspring, taken in the summer, like Robert's none of them have any interest in coins except those that can be spent in the shops. :'(
Alex.
Middle one looks like a rebel, Alex. ;) Keep a short lead! I wish my parents had...
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Middle one looks like a rebel, Alex. ;) Keep a short lead! I wish my parents had...
No wolfgang, he's just facing the sun ;)
Potator
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Middle one looks like a rebel, Alex. ;) Keep a short lead! I wish my parents had...
No wolfgang, he's just facing the sun ;)
Potator
Potator is right, the sun was in David's his eyes. He is, in fact, quite laid back, not at all rebellious.......yet. ;D
Alex.
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Actually you'd have to do something really stupid to get my bees to sting. The hives just sit in a corner, and with no low-flying bees due to the hedge in front of them, you wouldn't know they were there. I open the hives weekly at the height of the season with 40-50 000 bees in each one. I only get about one sting a month, off four hives, with all the aggravation I give them.
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I wonder what will happen if a pet dog only bites people about once a month ;)
I love animals though...unfortunately, my wife has somthing against small furry animals, so I can only manage to have these...
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I wonder what will happen if a pet dog only bites people about once a month ;)
That depends entirely on the size of the dog and the way it bites. I know cat owners who are mostly quite scratched up. I wonder where's the fun in there?
Rupert
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What's funny is that I get bit from my fish about once a month. When I move the rocks to clean gravel, they come up and bite my arms. Their teeth are too small to break the skin but for their size, they are mean!
I still have scars on my arms from the 2 siamese cats I used to have a decade ago. They used to poke their claws up my nose in the morning(4 am) to wake me up so they could be fed.
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Here's my youngest with that "I bet you can't guess what I did with your new box of coin flips" look.
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Here's my youngest with that "I bet you can't guess what I did with your new box of coin flips" look.
Or with your loudspeakers ;D
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If you did something nasty to your dog once a week, and it bit occasionally, you wouldn't have a complaint. If you pull beehives to bits all the time, you get stung. That's a fact of life; if you don't like it, don't keep bees! The point is, other people don't get stung, and there's no reason why they should. I've had those hives, with close neighbours, for six years, and never annoyed anyone.
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And I bet the honey is delicious!!
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It is, since it hasn't been processed, which removes everything that distinguishes honey from invert syrup. Put it on a burn and keep it covered, it heals up in no time.
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Also, to the folks that were disparaging PBR's fine brand of malty goodness earlier...good sirs, I doth protest! PBR is a fine American beer in the grand tradition of "Macroswill" lagers, and everyone should enjoy it daily!
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Also, to the folks that were disparaging PBR's fine brand of malty goodness earlier...good sirs, I doth protest! PBR is a fine American beer in the grand tradition of "Macroswill" lagers, and everyone should enjoy it daily!
Can you say--bitter beer face? :-X
Voz
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Come to this late but in for a penny......
The first is me and the two most important things in my life, my wife and my son.
The second is me on a bit of R+R from the job in Crete.
The third is my most favourite site from ancient history..............
A fairly innocuous looking field but one which has produced 2 Celtic gold staters of the Corieltauvii, 9 Republican denarii, a Julius, 7 Augustus and 2 Tiberius.
The fourth is my hound who accompanies me on all my historical forays in the mud of East Yorkshire, often with much greater enthusiasm!
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looks like a nice field to search in! thats one nice looking dog, you should train it to sniff for coins ;)
andrew
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This hound, lovely though he is couldn't find a barn door!!
He's a failed drugs dog, sacked for being completely useless!! ;D
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Since we are sharing kiddos! I can't resist!
My lil Man:
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ha, i feel so young here...maybe its because i am, im not much older than some of your little kiddos around here PFFT! lol!
if i had a half decent picture id post it...but i dont :-X
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To re-animate this thread here is a picture of me demonstrating how to tell the authenticity of 19th century Chinese amulets. - Or it might be my son, we look alike though, of course, I am slightly older.
Malcolm
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Since the theme is posting images of those dear to us, I thought I'd post a picture of Jake.
We have two dogs now who are beloved pets. Buster a lab/chow mix that if human would be Jethro Bodine on the Beverly Hillbillies movie star handsome and in training to be a "Double-naught Spy", and Lucky, a lovely wirehair terrier/basset mix who if human would say:
"I don't eat meat cause I'm a vetrenarian" Yep. Beloved but really that dumb.
And then there was Jake. While he was alive the two above were HIS pets.
Jake used to go flying with me often. He'd sit in the back seat as if it were a stationwagon look out for a while and then go to sleep. He could count-if it involved how many pieces of ham you'd put back in the refridgerator. He was a fixture at the local airport and would lie in the grass beside the taxiway while planes taxiing for takeoff cast their shadows on him and snooze away. He would somtimes do his "I want to go out" routine and when you got up to let him out, he'd jump into the place you occupied on "his" sofa. He left us in 1999 but is here everyday in our hearts.
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Well, after 36 hours of failed induce labor and one C section...
8lb12oz of a crying/sucking/pooping machine ;D
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Oh, he is beautiful, and may he bless you both. But 8 pounds and 12 ounces!!!! Mercy! Pat L.
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Thank you Pat. All the honor belongs to my wife. This certainly raises my admiration of the fairer half of us to a brand new level.
My wife was really wanting the natural birth experience; but after 36 hours of induced labor(induced contractions 4 minutes apart) to open the cervex to only to 7 cm and and a pretty bad reaction to the epidural, both of us could not bare it any more.
Both mother and the baby are fine :)
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Very cute baby, conratulations to all the family, long and beautiful life to the baby
Regards
Potator
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My congratulations as well! You must be a proud daddy!
Lars
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Congratulations.
It is not the journey but the end reult that is important in this case and as long as mother and baby are OK then that is all that matters.
Regards,
Martin
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Congratulations. He is beautiful. Welcome to the world of Daddy-dom...where all your past anxieties can be swept away with a look...only to be replaced by an entirely new set. not the least of which is keeping your coin collection out of the little tyke's mouth. ;D
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Congratulations from me too, ecoli. A beautiful baby, is it a boy or a girl? My first-born (boy) was by section but if it's any consolation to your wife the next three (girls) were normal births. ;D
Alex.
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A bright spot of Sunshine for the day! Congratulations, he is beautiful! :)
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This is yet another example of "From the Wallet of Basemetal"
That is not a surprised look. It is a confused one. My normal state, usually.
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I figure I will follow Basemetal and post a pic of me- though I prefer posting pics of my lil one or coins :)
Me - about 6 months ago getting ready to go out on the town.
~Robin who is a She Robin and not a He Robin :tongue:
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Should we be adding this to the forgery reports perhaps, Robin? :tongue:
Evan
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I dont think so Evan...you just cant fake that hair color. :)
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Should we be adding this to the forgery reports perhaps, Robin? :tongue:
Evan
We get to blame basemetal for this one...
Robin, I think Evan just piad you a high compliment. ;)
btw, thank you all for your good wishes...I am on night feeding duties this week...it's going to get interesting when I return to work next week. ;D
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Evan,
It does not matter. If the trick be true, I hope that our Arizona Robin does not tell. Beauty is a wonderful thing. Here is my wonder of a grand daughter, and a true babe, Sarah!!!
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This is yet another example of "From the Wallet of Basemetal"
That is not a surprised look. It is a confused one. My normal state, usually.
I don't knoe base, you carry pictures of yourself in your wallet more than anyone I know ;D
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Me, I think I'll get a hair cut. And no more pictures taken with flash! Pat
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Dear Pat
I think you're hair is similar to Robins - you should let it flow freely
;D
Alex
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Truly beautiful women are all alike....they find fault with themselves. How lovely you are!
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Rousing out of lethargy....what? Robins image...blame me?..ah....mmm...Oh!
Ok you are right ecoli...yes I am totally responsible for that image....somehow....I own up to it....ah...it is a responsibility I accept freely. Let me look at it.... again... ArizonaRobin....yep..my fault no doubt about it.
It's a curse and a blessing. Truth be told I also had something to do with the lovely Slokind's image too. Call me a hog for punishment....
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@Basemetal: Loved the picture of Jake; It's easy to see why you miss him.
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Thank you Anticus......
yes. everyday.
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Here's my ugly mug.
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Oh and nice pics everyone, especially the ladies. ;D
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Here I am where I spend most of my time,... At work, urggggggg.
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A newish one of me.... I can really follow instructions eh? :tongue:
Evan
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Well alright...here's the whole family. Little Joshua is about three weeks old here.
Look out! There's a killer cat behind us! Run!! Run for the hills! ;D
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Here's a more recent picture of Joshua on his first St. Patty's day. You gotta love the lil irish lad!!
Has it been six months already? Sometimes I wish I could slow down time...
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Evan.......Truly you are a rebel without a clause!!
Vitruvius......Take lots of pics, they grow up too fast. That is one great shot of little Josh. By the way, do we call your wife Mrs. Vitruvius?
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Massanutten,
I agree you can never take too many photos. My wife's name is Erin. I don't think she would be fond of Mrs. Vitruvius, when it comes to ancient history and coins she thinks I'm a "dork". ::) The only time she shows interest is when she's having trouble sleeping at night. Then it's "Can you put on that Roman documentary you taped the other night?" It works every time...she's asleep within minutes!! :) Oh well, at least I have the Forum to share my thoughts...
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These are the things you relly need in life... eat, drink, family, Forum...
Rupert
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Here's a couple of "new" ones, about four months old. Probably the only travel I'll get, since they're now blowing the hell out of everything here in the Sinai...
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Not me, but my precious Trilliums, which I've been busy hand pollinating.
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Rupert,
You said it best!!
Robert,
Those are beautiful Trilliums. From what I understand those are rather rare and tough to grow! Very nice work. :)
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Vitruvius, what do you feed that cat?? That's the puffiest blue point I've ever seen! Beautiful family as well. Is the little tyke taking after his mom or his dad when it comes to ancients? ;)
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Jbaran,
Thanks for the kind words regarding the family. Joshua seems to be getting into the ancient world. The other day we watched "Building an empire"...he seemed really into it!
Sierra is a mix between a blue point siamese and a Himalayan persian. I think she gets her fluffiness from her dad, who was persian. All I feed her is steak, chicken, live birds ;D No really, purina one about 1/2 cup twice a day.
When I lived in Clearwater, Fl. she was known to go out in the yard to catch and eat the various lizards that roamed the area. She would also stash remnants in my shoes to be found later. ::)
Have a good night!
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Ok, talk of cats means I have to show off the little queen of my household. :tongue: I say "little"...
LordBest. 8)
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Why many of my coin pictures have cat hair in them:
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Awesome scan. :laugh: I'm glad my cat hasnt tried that, she would break the glass.
LordBest. 8)
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Here is my mug, on Hawaiian travel
www.kudrya.smugmug.com
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Alright, Alright I give in.
Below you can see me. But, this is me about 13 months ago before chemo. I will send in a nicer image of me once I take a new image.
But I thought I supply you with a bit of laughter.
One thing you shouldnt do. You should never have 8 Kilos of Ancient Coins in your backpack while going through airport security looking like this. If you follow this then you can save up tp 2 hours and dont miss your flight. I assumed that the age of judging people by their looks was long gone, but appearantly not at airports. I was held 2 hours in Philly going to Frankfurt.
LOL.
And to quote my girlfriend: "You look like someone from Metallica"
Well I am drummer, thats how you are supposed to look like.
I was 22 years old when this one was taken.
Best wishes and hope you laughed
Burak
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Wonderful Metallica pic! ;D
Lars
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Istinpolin:
A perfect full frontal of Jovian!
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No pics yet but Buster the Wonder Dog passed away on April 26. He was 13 and had been with us since 1994. We lost a family member. Then on May 10, Corine the Wonder Mom passed away. Another family member. Life is quite transient.
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Alright, Alright I give in.
Below you can see me. But, this is me about 13 months ago before chemo. I will send in a nicer image of me once I take a new image.
Burak
Hey, er... "chemo" sounds mighty bad. I hope it helped and you'll be well again!
Rupert
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Thanks Rupert
It means a lot to me.
Never fear anything and always have a smile on your lips and nothing can happen to you. I have beaten the first wave and hope another will never come.
Thanks again
Best wishes,
burak
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Istinpolin:
Hang in there. I'm now on my sixth year after being diagnosed with Melanoma stage III. The median survival rate is around 30 months. It can be done.
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That's impressive. Survival is formative. I had breast cancer 25 years ago; a quarter century, thanks to prompt action surgically, seems worth celebrating. I usually mention it only to persons who won't get mammograms, but the quarter century is, yes, worth celebrating. Pat
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Me too. Had to have much of my esophagus removed 'cause of the scary C. five years ago. Still suffering from secondary problems, but God blesses us each and every one. Perhaps He/She(?) enjoys our efforts in coin collecting!!!
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"the age of judging people by their looks was long gone, but appearantly not at airports"
Sadly, it's the same everywhere in the world ... It's the same than the racism ...
But clever people don't do that !
Alright, Alright I give in.
Below you can see me. But, this is me about 13 months ago before chemo. I will send in a nicer image of me once I take a new image.
But I thought I supply you with a bit of laughter.
One thing you shouldnt do. You should never have 8 Kilos of Ancient Coins in your backpack while going through airport security looking like this. If you follow this then you can save up tp 2 hours and dont miss your flight. I assumed that the age of judging people by their looks was long gone, but appearantly not at airports. I was held 2 hours in Philly going to Frankfurt.
LOL.
And to quote my girlfriend: "You look like someone from Metallica"
Well I am drummer, thats how you are supposed to look like.
I was 22 years old when this one was taken.
Best wishes and hope you laughed
Burak
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Hi all
Gee !!! coin collecting seems to be dangerous, I am also a cancer survivor : ten years next july since I started surgery and chemo. All is OK now, so, for tose still "in" it, don't give up... :afro:
Potator
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Potator:
I think it has to do with wiping off all that Dellar's Darkener! :tongue:
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Wow folks,
I didn't know I was on the "Tough Fighters And Survivors" Board here!!! Be sure I keep my fingers crossed for all of you, even if you outbid me on Fleabay every now and then!
Rupert
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Ok here's a few of pics of me-
The first one is of me all costumed up prior to a performance of Purcell's Dido and Aeneus last month-I must explain that whilst also doing an Ancient History degree I'm also a bit of a thesp!
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Here's one of me and a couple of freinds on my course
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Welcome to the boards, CANTANATRIX!
Nico
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Ah, Dido and Aeneas --- Dido's Lament (the final part of the opera) is one of the most beautiful pieces of mourning music ever written. I love it!!!
Rupert
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Yeah it's heartbreaking-our Dido was amazing-there wasn't a dry eye in the house!
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Hi,
Until now I've only appeared here with two friends, board members Adrianus and Leetoone, but here I am with SWMBO - Valerie. Photographed here in Northern Cyprus we love the island and have visited both sides on a number of occasions. This year I'm taking her back to Italy.
It was Val who told me to look up the words "frivalous expendature" in the dictionary. I'm glad I did ;D, I try to adhere strictly to the definition!
Regards,
Mauseus
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One of me, taken last week...
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Here is a photo of me and my wife Boom (a pretty common Thai nickname)--her 'real name' is Krittiya. We are at the ski lodge at the top of the Sandia Mountains just outside of Albuquerque, and it was late last summer. As you can tell, it's sunset. We were visiting friends who live in Santa Fe. Boom and I have been married for the better part of six years, and this (besides being on an air plane) is the highest in altitude that she has ever been. I grew up in the Southwest region of the U.S., and beginning in high school my friends and I have 'bagged' (climbed/hiked) as many 10,000+ foot peaks as possible. We stopped counting when we hit 35 (half-way to seventy . . . a long story). Boom was understandably dizzy. The view from Sandia Peak (sandia means water melon in Spanish) is beautiful. You can, of course, see the layout of Albuquerque. The Rio Grande River snakes across your landscape; it is there in the mid-left of the photo, and on a clear day using binoculars (a must have if you like birds), when you hike along the peak a wee bit, you can make out the Rio Grande River Gorge--a very miniature, but beautiful, version of the Grand Canyon.
Boom & Jim (Cleisthenes)
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Buzzygirl:
You favor Kate Allen, the female lead in Raiders Of The Lost Ark! A fitting look for an ancient collector!
And I must apologize about the mercury dimes. I looked and all I have is one which you are welcome to.
All the others are Roosevelt silvers.
Bruce Willis
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Basemetal, thanks for the offer of the dime, but I've got those puppies coming outta my ears here! Heh, from dimes to denarii in 1.5 years.
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Buzzygirl:
My apologies again for rashly saying I have lots of mercury dimes. At one time I did.
Another reason that Brother-in-Laws are the lord's way of saying you have too much wealth.
After a bit of research-meaning scouring my memory -I now know that I (ewwww) gave them to him!
Remember the ancient phrase, probably wrong, but the one I heard was attributed to a Viking Lord:
"It takes much silver to acquire gold"
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Basemetal, thanks for the offer of the dime, but I've got those puppies coming outta my ears here! Heh, from dimes to denarii in 1.5 years.
really? any chance that those dimes be 16Ds? ;D
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Basemetal, thanks for the offer of the dime, but I've got those puppies coming outta my ears here! Heh, from dimes to denarii in 1.5 years.
really? any chance that those dimes be 16Ds? ;D
Not a one of those, unfortunately. :(
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darn :) I only needed that and the overdates to complete my set.
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@ Massanutten
any more pictures of your grand daughter?
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ah but you spoil them nevertheless...as revenge on your kids ;D
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Here's a shot of me diving in Roatan last year.
Stan
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Another of my plants; Dracunculus vulgaris, the Dragon Arum. The flower is well over two feet high, stinks like something that's been dead a good while (I could smell it twenty yards off this afternoon), and gets covered in flies and beetles which pollinate it.
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Soon I'll have to guard against loose ancients left on window sills...
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How big is your back yard? I am envious...
It's actually on the allotment. That's a small piece of land (600 square yards) which I rent, mainly to grow vegetables on.
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ecoli:
How he has grown and developed! And not yet three months old (when photo was taken, assuming the date is right in the camera). Pat L.
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Dear Slokind,
There are things more amazing than the willingness of some people to bid outrageously in a certain auction. My son's day to day growth is one; your ability to remember his age is another.
I thank you for remembering :)
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I guess it's the season...
Below is a mourning dove that graces my balcony.
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She got your eyes! :laugh:
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Here is another one
This one, depicting my girlfriend Hande and me, is two years old and was taken in Venice by the Piazza di San Marco. Those who have been there will remember that one huge tower. Well this one was taken up there by me (thats why I am not on it completly).
Thank god Hande is hiding my gigantic "black sea region" nose.
Best wishes,
Burak
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here is my first picture on the forum after 3+ years.this is fathers day at storyland.Best fathers day ever!!!!!
The one in London? Do they still have the enormous slides? I loved that place :tongue:
Evan
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update... prom picture from the limo (I'm the one on the left)
Graduation is tomorrow, and then High School is done forever... wow...
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Congratulations, Zam for your graduation!
And also for that lovely girl at your side ;)
Nico
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Here is a recent-ish pic of me from April, 2005. I am in Ochos Rios, Jamaica, on a little tour of wildlife while we waited to swim with the dolphins. :) If I can get that pic scanned, I will post that as well ;) . I have sort of a smirky little smile on, and that parrot is a fairly heavy guy! His claws can dig into you, too :laugh: I am also showing my favorite baseball team, the Atlanta Braves (which I take a lot of heat for, because I live in Boston, MA! I have never liked the Sox much, even since I was young. I sort of grew up with Chipper and John Smoltz on TV, and it stuck :angel:)
Andrew
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A true pirate if I've ever seen one. Johnny Depp move over!!! Arghh!! ;D
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@ Andrew
Hey I was a fan when Dale Murphy was playing...
Also, is that your sister in the background?
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No, I've only got a younger brother. It is my aunt's boyfriend's daughter :laugh:
Andrew
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ancientcoins:
You give me hope for the future. You are so much smarter and mature than I was at your age.
Not all about modern upbringing is wrong. You are the proof young man!
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Ok I'll bite. This is several years old but its probably the best pic of me there is.
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Hiya Dru, Neat effect on the cat eyes, intended or not :)
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Hiya Dru, Neat effect on the cat eyes, intended or not :)
:lol:
How about this one:
(http://www.tribalsoup.com/pics/cat2.jpg)
crazy cat eyes :)
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BTW nice looking pooch...my dog is part german shepard...part god knows what.
Just a question...does your german shepard throw up a lot? I read they often have intestinal problems.
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thats even better lol
Unfortunately he is no longer with us, but yes he did. I was told by the vet that it was anxiety mostly (I moved around a lot). As I understand it Shephards don't like a lot of change.
Here's a pic of my current baby, Tiger
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That's me ecoli! Ever wonder why I have a martian name?
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Thats me on a mountain-forest expedition in the Central-Philippines.
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Finally, an up-to-date picture of me. At Pompeii no less.
I'm the very confused hottie holding the sandwich.
The image is kinda massive, but you get the picture. 8)
Sejanus
EDIT: I bet none of you can tell where this was photoshopped.
I'm that good. 8)
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This is the home of my family. The wooden part was build up on 1689, three hundered years ago. Also from the same age is the cellar you can view on the scan. The name of the house is " Hof Sachslen". the first mention of the house-name is on a pergament from the years around 1280. The oldest bases of the stone-building is from 11 century. Is very amazing to live in an old historical home.
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That is a beautiful house Roland. Very Picturesque.
Alex.
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Not only a beautiful home, but beautifully maintained. Homes have to be invested in by every generation. Your portrait from the Philippines is fine, too; it is a photo that says something. Pat L.
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Absolutely beautiful home Roland. It must be such a treasure to live in a home with so much history.
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For two years now, I have been a member and deeply entrenched in coin threads. I absolutely missed this thread. It is nice to put faces with the names here. Arizonarobin kindly pointed me in this direction, so I am adding what I have. All pictures of a guy are me. The beautiful lady is my wife. The dogs are, from largest to smallest: Pepe, Floyd, and Roxy. The adorable baby boy is my son, Sawyer, who was born Aug. 4, 2006! Oh, the nice scenic shot is my backyard. We recently bought a home that had a gazebo and a koi pond with nearly 60 fish. We had to get rid of many. Thanks to all who have shared a little about themselves...
Best, Noah
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;D (moved)
Congratulations on a beautiful boy! I see that he already has the treasure hunting bug and his first map to a Horde of Golden Ancients!
Beautiful wife, beautiful child! You are a lucky man.
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Ah! Wonderful. I think your son already is bigger than any of those dogs. What can I say but amen to Arizona Robin's post. Pat L
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@ Noah
Welcome to Fatherhood!
Your son look very handsome. Be prepared so, they grow up faster than you think...If you blink, you'll miss something :)
How many times do you get up at night these days?
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Thanks for the kind words arizonarobin, Pat, and ecoli! I appreciate them very much. Fatherhood is great, but sleep deprivation is not... I was used to a good 8 hours a night, now 5 seems awesome. At least I don't have to breastfeed!! ;)
Best, Noah
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At least I don't have to breastfeed!! ;)
Best, Noah
What's the difference between a female breast and a model railway? Well, there actually isn't any. Both are meant to be for the kids, but the dads keep playing with them!
Rupert ::)
Moderator: Please remove this if it's too silly.
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On 1st of July I returned after climbing Mont Blanc ( 4810m, tallest summit in the Alps and Western and Central Europe) on the long Italian route from Gonella. Aka "Pope's Route" because it was first used by a party including the man who later became Pope Pious XI ! (but we all knew Italians are nutz :D )
So those of you that wish to see a bunch of pics, link is below. There are 3 albums, first with the ascent and descent of Mont Blanc, second with visits to Courmayeur and Chamonix, the enchanting base towns of MB, and third back on the mountain to bag an interesting peak.
http://ursultrubadur.ase.ro/modules/xg2/index.php?g2_itemId=27
Alex
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It was a real pleasure viewing that wonderful scenery. I thoroughly enjoyed looking at your photos, Alex.
Alex.
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Here is a more recent pic of me (taken August 2 in Waterville Valley, New Hampshire). Yep, you get it all. My classic slanted eye (always happens when I smile), a cheesy smile, and a zit on my chin. ::)
Andrew
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..., and a zit on my chin. ::)
Andrew
Oh my god, you're becoming a man!!
Rupert :)
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Well rupert, my wife is fixated on my son and will have nothing to do with me yet, and my son still isn't aware that he has arms (so a railway is out), so I don't get to play with either! :-\
Best, Noah
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:-\ Hard times, I understand you very well; been through it three times. But it's worth it! Be strong (and get yourself a model railway - or some nice coins)!
Rupert
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I love pictures! Noah, what a beautiful family!
My two are grown, with babies of their own. . .I have a boy, and a girl,
and from these two little rabbits I have 11 grandchildren.
About three years ago I adopted more 'children' they are so much easier to care for!
Here I am in 'Kiss Me Kate' . . . I am a student at the university and this was a university production this past spring semester.
And me with my adopted children, they are miniature schnauzers:
The silver one is Sophie, (she's the boss), the salt and pepper is Sadie
and the black is Sigusmundus, we call him Mr. Sigs.
Cool thread!
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Ok
Here is our 4 year old Pretorian and 5 year old doughter with mouth full of chocolate.
Your Pretorian is a real camera ham! I'm so glad your Marcus quit smoking, be terrible to stunt his growth at 17 months! ;D :-* ;D
wish I could still do a mouthful of chocolate!! :-X
sweet family!
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If you could see a pic of Marcus's wife, you might wonder why he spends time away from home searching for coins, lol!
She is such a beauty!
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All true, but in the midst of it all we forgot Andrew, who has changed more in the last year than I could have believed if I hadn't spent 8 years teaching Grades VIII through X. It's as Rupert said, and it shows in more than that fleeting annoyance on the chin. Pat L.
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It took me a while but I went through all the pages, and what a photo album! This forum is made up of the most beautiful people!
From the top of the mountain peaks, to the depth of the sea, fellow thespians, travel pictures, those of you in military, wedding pictures, beautiful baby pictures, lovely families, and several very fishy pics, drivers license (what a hoot), and watching one collector grow up on this forum :laugh:, some made me laugh, (like the cat on the scanner!) but all made me smile, (saholz that is a great photo, your photographer did an excellent job of shooting underwater!). Everyone was like a precious coin, each had it's own beauty.
I am proud to be part of such a great group of people!
I was so inpired by all the wonderful pics I had to add a couple more.
1. Onstage
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2.a collage of me diving, (a spring dive, didn't see any nymphs, and a beach dive)
and my most recent trip (Egypt Dec 05)
I can tell you, the Sphynx does not kiss and tell, I still don't know the secret.
I look forward to viewing posts even more so now that I have a face with the name!
Thank you for sharing!
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Since we've seemed to expand to family and pets, I'll add some. My original post is buried waaaay back.
Me and my children, couple of years ago but its my favorite pic of us (my wife refuses to be photographed, says she doesn't want to kill the glamour industry, LOL!)...
[See first image below]
And an updated pic of me, examining the Guadalupe River to see if it could be forded
[see second image below]
And Molle and Maddi, our pie bald mini weenies, the biological element of our multi-tiered security system
[see third image below]
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But it's worth it! Be strong (and get yourself a model railway - or some nice coins)!
Rupert
Yes it is! I probably won't get a railway, but I do have a nice Constantius I Chlorus on the way!!
Best, Noah
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Noah,
your son and my daughter share the same birthday. Except my daughter just turned three. I'm fairly new to this place. I've been lurking for a while, I read this entire thread. Lots of interesting people. Not quite brave enough to post a pic of myself just yet.
Candice
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Here I am in 'Kiss Me Kate' . . .
His Star, 'Kiss Me Kate' is one of my favorite older musicals. It is the one with Kathryn Grayson and Howard Keel. Cholmberg, that is neat. I was hoping my son would have my birthday. The reason for this is that my wife and I have the same birthday. If my son did too, then I would only have to remember one date!! ;D
Best, Noah
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Here is a picture of my wife and I on the way to get married on June 1.
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Look at all the pretty ladies!
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Roland Mueller:
Did you know that you favor Stanley Kubric quite a bit?
Also, reminds me how many coins I've bought "Eyes wide Shut"
;)
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Since "Post a pic of you", now includes scenery, here is a nice tranquil scene which I took here in my homeland. I use the picture as my desktop probably because the small orange "blobs" in the swan boat are my four children ;D.
Alex.
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Who can guess where this pic of Automan was taken?
//Auto
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Who can guess where this pic of Automan was taken?
Haifa?
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Thank you for your compliments but, I am a very common Müller (Miller in english). Sometimes I was asked for an autogram from "Sean Connery". Sorry for the disappointment of people if they realise that am just Müller! ???
I am happy not to be a Connery so I have my own life and has it not share with hundered thousends and I have my lull for greek coins.
Automan, could it be Creta?
Regards
roland
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Re: Automan on Walls. Great walls. City walls. Priene? Messene? Double walls. Could be Mycenaean but more likely what at a glance are called "4th century". I don't recall exactly where he is, but where is Sweden excavating currently? Pat L.
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Is that the centre filling of a wall, rubble and cement? Have the ashlar blocks been robbed to build other things?
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Yes, that's the rubble centre he's standing on. You can see some of the ashlar left at the bottom, so it's a wall someone was prepared to spend a good bit of money on; squared stone doesn't come cheap in any era unless it's salvaged from somewhere. Near the bottom you can see ashlar blocks which bound the outer shell securely to the core, so it's intended as a strong wall, probably a fortification. The concrete binding the core points to the same conclusion; it's not just loose rubble.
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Re: Automan on wall.
Not Mycenae Pat, the construction is completely different.
The concrete and rubble core would point to the walls being from the Roman era. The ashlars are fairly small, finely finished, rectangular and regular so I am thinking monumental building rather than fortification. The walls also appear to stand in a country with a generally dry warm climate since they seem to have suffered more from stone robbing than from erosion. Well that really narrows it down ::) so since there is not much else to go on I think Automan will have to tell us the location himself.
Alex.
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NO ONE mentioned Mycenae. Nor Tiryns, nor Asine, even. Indeed, if it really has mortar rather than clay rubble, it isn't any Bronze Age wall (Mycenaean, let alone Minoan). I thought of Gynaikokastro, but nothing preserved so high there. I thought of Megalopolis, but again it didn't quite look like it. I mentioned Messene in Laconia because it is so well preserved, and I haven't had a chance to walk the full circuit, and Priene for the same reason. Looks like too steep terrain for Miletus, but again I haven't seen all of it. Then there's Epirus, but it's been 45 years since I was there; lots of walls. But I haven't been to any of the walls and gates in Cilicia, where the indefatigable Ramsay recorded so many Pauline (his interest) cities. There are more Late Classical-Early Hellenistic walls than almost anyone, except someone like Eugene Vanderpool, ever visited in a lifetime. And I hardly think it's any part of the Long Walls to Piraeus, though who has visited all the remains of them both? Eleusis just occurred to me, though the hints of landscape look wrong; folks tend to forget the walls of Eleusis. Thebes? Eleutherae? Vergina? What about Apollonia in modern Albania? I never got a chance to go to Albania.
Well, what is it? Double walls are very hard to identify except in views from low-flying airplanes. Almost all of them are awesomely well made.
Pat L.
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Could be Mycenaean but more likely what at a glance are called "4th century". I don't recall exactly where he is, but where is Sweden excavating currently? Pat L.
I didn't mean to cause any offence, Pat. :-[ I am aware of your credentials, I know that you are well-travelled but I thought, with your above remark, perhaps you hadn't actually been to Mycenae. Stupid of me, it is inconceivable that you wouldn't have visited such a famous site and I humbly apologise :-*. It is thirty years since I was there and, as you obviously know, the bronze-age construction is entirely different, that is why I mentioned it.
As to Automan's wall. Although it could be virtually anywhere and a mortar and rubble core is typically Roman, it has a Greek feel to it :-\.
Alex.
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Cyprus?
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Well, coming from someone who hasn't visited many Roman sites, that looks like a pretty impressive demonstration of the strength of the cement mix used by the Romans. It raises a question. In Rome, it would have been easy to gather the required materials. The raw ingredients were limestone and volcanic ash, and there was a volcano on their doorstep. But what did they use elsewhere? Volcanos could not have always been handy.
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Mortar the whole empire had, and Early Byzantine mortair-and-brick walls are full of it, but they didn't have the pozzolana to make hydraulic cement for true Roman concrete of the kind in the Pantheon and the aula of the Mercati Traiani. I must agree with *Alex that the fill of that double wall does look more like such mortar than like clay (though clayey soils come in colors), and if so it may be later than its general aspect suggests. Gavignano said "Cyprus", and that sounds like a real possibility (but I haven't been there!). When does mortar come in? Earlier east of the Greek peninsula than in it? Suddenly I'm not sure, in fact I am aware that I never asked myself that question before. If it's anything like the mortar used with brick in Louisiana, it is quite properly confined to non-bearing functions, since its compressive strength isn't very great. Mortar calls for re-pointing. Not, however, in the core of a double wall. But some of you guys will know more about mortar than I do.
One thing: that ashlar looks like poros (demotic: pouri), since the color in the photo seems very real.
Pat L.
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One other thing came to me examining the picture. Do you suppose that the mortar is original or could it be the work of modern conservationists?
Alex.
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There are many kinds of mortar, but many of them are less durable than the material they cement together, hence the need to re-point old buildings. Here's an interesting article by a building conservator:
http://www.buildingconservation.com/articles/limegauging/limegauging.htm
The Roman type (which was known long before, though perhaps not systematised) was particularly durable, probably at least in part because it was not porous and therefore not subject to weathering through frost. It would even set under water.
That core looks as though it is made with pretty durable cement, to still be standing like that. Even if it has been reinforced in modern times, it stands quite high and solid. So it is likely that there is suitable pozzolanic material within reasonable reach, probably no more than a few miles; and there must also be structures nearby built with the Roman ashlar you can no longer see in the picture.
Concrete (cement mixed with aggregate) has a pretty good compressive strength usually, and many buildings have been made out of it. There's a very pretty church near here made of light pink concrete.
Bill
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Wow! I didn't realise it would raise such a discussion!
So, here is the answer: I am, in fact, standing on a wall erected by another civilisation entirely; It's the Great Wall of China!
This section, "HuangHua" (=Yellow Flower, 60 km outside of Beijing), is almost entirely untouched since it was first build during the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644). If you get a chance to visit the Great Wall, I really recommend this site. It is quite "un-touristified", and my party were basically the only people there. If you are a bit more adventurous than I am, there are better preserved sections of the wall at HuangHua, but getting to them requires hiking gear and you go there at your own risk!
The square blocks are apparently lime stone, and a cement mix using rice and egg whites was used. Most of the center of the wall was just filled with rubble (dirt, stones etc).
There are, of course, other portions of the wall that have been restored to look very much like when it was originally build (such as Badaling and Simitai), but there tourists flock in huge numbers.
Contrary to popular belief, it is not visible from the Moon (and claims to that effect are currently being removed from Chinese school books).
//Auto
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Ah, the Great Maginot Wall of China. ;) Cant wait to see it myself. I've never believed the stories that its visible from space. Its what, four meters wide at the widest points? It would be like trying to spot a single cat hair from two stories up.
Cement was of course known long before the Romans, what the Romans did waas refine the ingredients and the mix, which improved the results dramatically. For example earlier cement took centuries or even longer to set all teh way through depending on the amount used. A few years ago at an archaeological dig in norhten greece a Greek cement slab was cracked and the inside started to ooze out, theslab was dated to around 280BC. The Romans fixed that and also developed cement that would set under water. If they could not get volcanic ash they used to use ground up pottery, a great deal of Roman hydraulic cement is a pleasant pink colour as a result.
LordBest. 8)
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The Great Wall of China :o! I said it had a Greek feel to it :-X ;D.
Alex.
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Egg white and rice. Well, at least it sounds more tasty than volcanic ash and quicklime. I suspect there must have been other ingredients too, or something would have eaten it.
In fact, I now imagine a scenario where the peasants are saying "Need more egg white and rice for the next section, boss" and promptly eating that and substituting earth and excrement.
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It was basically cement mixed with egg white and powdered sticky rice, i believe. Rice was also used in the bricks that many of the better preserved sections are made of, the rice seems to protect against erosion rather well.
LordBest. 8)
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This is me, as a witness at the wedding of my sister
kind regards,
snorkelpaleis
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Well here is a picture of me and some scenery. Unfortunately the scenery is rather charred. This was taken a few years ago in northern Canada.
And now at present time I'm still fighting forest fires but from the air. I was getting too old to continue running around in the forest with 80 pounds on my back.
Dave
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That is admirable work Dave! I have a great uncle who died in 1953 way before I was born. He was fighting a forest fire and got caught in the wrong place when the wind shifted. It is dangerous work that most would not do.
Best, Noah
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In Australia, we know all too well about bushfires (in South Australia where I live, just mention the word "Ash Wednesday"), and appreciate and respect the work that firefighters like yourself do.
Peter
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Here's a pic of me pre-coin collecting. I used to fly, build, repair, and generally have one great time flying powered parachutes. One of life's great pleasures, and the second-best feeling on earth. ;)
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And now at present time I'm still fighting forest fires but from the air. I was getting too old to continue running around in the forest with 80 pounds on my back.
Dave
When my son was about 16/17 he did some volunteer fire-fighting with his best friends uncle (the real firefighter). We were living outside of Huntsville, AL and there was a forest fire they were having trouble putting out. He came home sooty, tired and with a real respect for people that fight fires, esp. forest fires.
That is a nice photo of the plane.
We have watched the news where the only reason a person's house stood was the firefighter, we lived in Calif, and now in Florida, and both places have 'fire-season'!
We value the firefighter in our family!
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Here's a pic of me pre-coin collecting.
Do you have a source we should know about? How can you collect "pre-coins" in the air?
what is a "pre-coin" anyway? Is that the flan?
Sorry, just being silly, and couldn't resist . . . . it isn't my fault! It's you know
who . . . . :evil:
Some real dare-devils on this forum....
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Flying involves no dare-devil stunts. With safe flying the greatest danger is driving to the airport.
Pre-coin simply means before I started collecting ancient coins. One of my best memories is of flying along and suddenly noticing two geese flying beside me.
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Hmm...looks quite different from the driver license picture. Is this what long term coin collecting can do to a man? ;D
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Yes...ecoli...i certainly hope so.
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His Star:
You are one lovely lady!
I was just scrolling up.
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One of my best memories is of flying along and suddenly noticing two geese flying beside me.
Oh gosh, somebody slap my hands quick, I am so tempted to ask:
did they honk before they passed you?
You know if they were flying upside down they could quack up. . .
ouch, sorry- that was ducks, ok, ok, I'm outta here! :-*
Basemetal, thank you so much for the lovely compliment! I went through the 'post a picture' photo album and the people on this forum are so beautiful! I'm glad to be a member.
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Well, here are a series of photos. One set shows my wife and her stages of progessive "hair loss". One shows me and my progressive stage of facial hair addition. The last one has a miscellaneous hodge-podge containing a photo of us on our honeymoon at the Maya ruins at Tulum on the Yucatan, one of an exact replica of Columbus' Nina (built by the descendants of the builders of the original ship) which sailed into Louisville's port, and the one of my son at one month old (today). I hope to see more photos of you all...so get photographing and posting! ;)
Best, Noah
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One shows me and my progressive stage of facial hair addition.
Best, Noah
Wonderful family! Nice pics.
I am wondering tho. . . .is that your model and goal for your beard growth?
Just the beard or the hair-do too?
Beautiful wife and baby!
School started, I will not be on the computer as much for a while. I auditioned for a musical "She Loves Me" not much hopes of a part in it though. Only two female leads and at least 25 females after each part! One class is going to be fun, makeup and disguise, we have a new instructor and it looks like I will learn a lot in this class.
So I will check in every chance I get, but know I miss you guys when I am doing homework and attending classes!
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I am wondering tho. . . .is that your model and goal for your beard growth?
Just the beard or the hair-do too?
I did not think of that! I suppose I would go for it if I could. Unfortunately, the misses won't allow it, and I subsequently shaved it down to the first photo length. She said it was too scratchy and made me look scary... :(
Best, Noah
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The ship looks quite believable for 1492, but I wonder how much specific detail of the Nina is actually known. I suspect it's more generic than anything.
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I am wondering tho. . . .is that your model and goal for your beard growth?
Just the beard or the hair-do too?
I did not think of that! I suppose I would go for it if I could. Unfortunately, the misses won't allow it, and I subsequently shaved it down to the first photo length. She said it was too scratchy and made me look scary... :(
Best, Noah
Hehe...if mommy is not happy, no one is happy ;)
Being Chinese, I never have to shave my cheeks. One of the advantage of being Asian :P
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Here's a pic of me pre-coin collecting. I used to fly, build, repair, and generally have one great time flying powered parachutes. One of life's great pleasures, and the second-best feeling on earth. ;)
that looks like a blast
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Ecoli:
I never shave my cheeks either...well there was that one time after Ms. Basemetal saw some racy photos on the internet.....
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I hope you don't confuse different ends of the body too often ;)
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Ecoli:
Sadly, sometimes I do. I often meet people and after getting to know them or dealing with them realize I have been trying to communicate with the wrong end.
All of you-do not interpert ecoli's and my give and take with any form of cultural or racial prejudice. Some of my best friends are.......Forum members. ;)
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The ship looks quite believable for 1492, but I wonder how much specific detail of the Nina is actually known. I suspect it's more generic than anything.
Well, the historical preservation group that sponsored this worldwide tour of this Nina copy claimed that it was built according to the same specifications as the original. They claimed this was possible due to fact that it was the descendants of the original builders who built this one. Furthermore, they claimed to have some of the documents detailing specifics in the construction of the original. Of course, nothing is completely certain since the original ship is not around anymore. For all I know, they built this ship to resemble the original and are scamming everyone to make a buck...
Best, Noah
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Ecoli:
Sadly, sometimes I do. I often meet people and after getting to know them or dealing with them realize I have been trying to communicate with the wrong end.
HA! ;D
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Here I am with my two kids.
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Well, the historical preservation group that sponsored this worldwide tour of this Nina copy claimed that it was built according to the same specifications as the original. They claimed this was possible due to fact that it was the descendants of the original builders who built this one. Furthermore, they claimed to have some of the documents detailing specifics in the construction of the original. Of course, nothing is completely certain since the original ship is not around anymore. For all I know, they built this ship to resemble the original and are scamming everyone to make a buck...
Best, Noah
According to this page they found a group of shipbuilders still using the same techniques, but it says nothing about surviving documents: http://www.thenina.com/the_original_nina.htm . According to this one: http://www.evgschool.org/Columbus's%20Sailing%20Ships.htm , nobody knows for sure precisely what they were like, which is what I've always heard. My guess is that it's probably a pretty accurate caravel of the right size, with a bit of hype thrown in.
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Robert, of course you are right. It would not be sensible to believe that it is accurate in every detail; embellishment is sure to occur. Perhaps our tour guide was a bit overdramatic and decided to alter his speech a little. I only picked up the generic brochure and listened to two people talk about the ship. Thanks for going through the trouble of looking up that information! :)
Best, Noah
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Here I am with my two kids.
Lovely family!
Love the tie!
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Ecoli:
Sadly, sometimes I do. I often meet people and after getting to know them or dealing with them realize I have been trying to communicate with the wrong end.
Basemetal in his element(to all, this is a scam, do not fall for this ;) ):
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:laugh: ;D ;) -- ROFLMAO -- ;) ;D :laugh:
Rupert
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I have been considering doing some charity work. I believe I know what it will be now. Once this catches on, I believe you will find "health centers" such as this popping up everywhere. Another range of diseases vanquished.
Great photo
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you guys are so baaaad! :evil:
::)
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Yes, that's what we are like. Shown here by the example of my youngest son, Armin.
Rupert
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Drat ecoli!
Your photo pointed out to me my terrible spelling! It was supposed to be "Free Mamma Gram" a program I initatied to place women in touch with lost parents by sending a free email for them. The second part of the poster was just my way of multi-tasking. ;)
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Here are some pics of the coin-meeting our home and garden last weekend!
1 pc: On the lft pscipio from Switzerland, right Antoninus from Munich
2. pic:Roland Müller, right upuaut from Tirol, Austria
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And one pic more of Roland, studying ancient greeks
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The veritable image of Plato proofing his writings using a quartz stone magnifying lens! :)
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Ok, here are a couple. One is a then and the other is now.
Take Care
Ben
Then- Castle hopping in the Rhineland-Pfalz, 1986 with my future brother-in-law.
(http://www.jabpublish.com/germ.jpg)
Now - Mitchell, South Dakota 2006 attending the funeral of a (Iraqi freedom) fallen soldier. I'm retired from the military now as well...
(http://www.jabpublish.com/sd06.jpg)
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Although not something I would seek out as an activity... I found myself in the passenger side of a race car this week. :o At 140 miles an hour around the track I discovered something new.. I LIKED IT! ;D
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Hi, Robin. It wasn't so fast, only a Sunday afternoon autocross, with me at the wheel of my beloved 356A entering the frame, caught by a friend with my camera, but I have a good memory, and I think I know how you feel. At 34, I was just young enough still to fully appreciate it. The town was Eugene OR, and the organization, which also did rallyes, called itself the Emerald Empire Sports Car Club. I got the car secondhand. Never since have I had a sports car (or a boyfriend who was into them...). Pat L.
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Pat! You are a daredevil! I had no idea ;D
What a beautiful little car! That must have been a great time.
Although I throughly enjoyed my day of riding, I don't think I would be one to be behind the wheel- I drive like I am carrying a car full of eggs. It was after my fourth concusion that my driving became so careful. ;D
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Speaking of daredevil female drivers, I had the opportunity to be at the Indy 500 race where Danica Patrick led for several laps. We were sure she would pull it off, until she ran low on gas during the penultimate lap... :-\ She set a record for a female driver and put the guys to shame! It was a sight to see; also, those indy cars are extremely loud and you can actually feel the vibration as they pass by.
Best, Noah
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Hey Roland,
If you do such gatherings in the future with pscipio and antoninus, let me know. The drive is only a couple of hours for me.
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How did you like Oregon Pat? I lived in Portland for several years and LOVED IT!! I visited Eugene several times since my uncle lived there. That is one of the most beautiful parts of the country. BTW, do any of you live near Louisville, Kentucky? I have never actually met a fellow ancients collector. I have not ever even been to an ancients show. Not much comes my way here, so I rely on these boards and the internet to whet my collector's appetite. :'(
Best, Noah
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My little grand-child Kaja on her 1st birthday imitating Harpokrates!
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She looks like a joy to you all. And lovely. And, as you say, a wise child. Pat L.
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My son says "Simply lovely" ;D