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Red Fury Revolt
A.D. 60…
Three towns writhe under the Iceni queen’s wrath, as she leads her warriors intent on destroying all things Roman – be it Roman temples, Roman villas, or entire families sympathetic to Rome. At stake is Suetonius Paulinus’s reputation. With only 80,000 legionaries, will he destroy Boudica and her horde of 200,000 warriors or will he endure the disgrace in Rome for losing–to a woman? in this horrific historical revolt against Roman injustice. Julius Agricola-Rome’s tribune, and Rhianna-Boudica’s youngest daughter, become ensnared in the harsh worlds that are determined to destroy each other. Who will survive?
The Chrysalis
Proverb “Just when the caterpillar thought the world was coming to an end, she changed into a butterfly.” A dangerous butterfly…
Ravaged by Rome, Morrigan turns her fear into revenge and now it is Rome who should fear her. Rome’s tax collector Decianus Catus intrudes on Morrigan’s father’s funeral, flogs her mother Boudica, and then takes the Iceni people back to camp where the women are raped. However, the Trinovante warriors save her and her people from this horrid fate. To survive, Morrigan turns her fear into fury.
The Chrysalis
Proverb “Just when the caterpillar thought the world was coming to an end, she changed into a butterfly.” A dangerous butterfly…
Ravaged by Rome, Morrigan turns her fear into revenge and now it is Rome who should fear her. Rome’s tax collector Decianus Catus intrudes on Morrigan’s father’s funeral, flogs her mother Boudica, and then takes the Iceni people back to camp where the women are raped. However, the Trinovante warriors save her and her people from this horrid fate. To survive, Morrigan turns her fear into fury.
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Reading from the flyover states
Amazon
Author Ridgley re-creates a compelling ancient Rome that draws you in and takes you for a roller-coaster ride through a part of history we’re so fortunate to have missed…a part where women are rarely more than possessions for bartering. This is a story of gallantry and love that keeps you turning the pages. A most enjoyable read with impressive historic accuracy.
R. Leonia
Amazon
I love everything Ancient Rome and Vows of Revenge was a great read. The characters were well developed and the story contained great historical detail coupled with vivid settings and a few nice twists. After you finish the book, make sure to read the notes at the end – it’s a nice way to wrap up the story for those that have questions about the behavior or motives of the characters.
Firewood Shed
Amazon
The best book I’ve read all year! The literary world needs J F Ridgley! I knew this book would probably be good after reading a few short stories from Ridgley but I didn’t know just how good. How good? Damn good! Get it now, good. This book is like a feast. I would LOVE to see it adapted for the big screen. Epic, epic, epic. Can’t wait for the author’s next novel.
Kevin
Amazon
A great read from beginning to end. I couldn’t put it down. Villains that you hate and the hero’s that you can’t help loving.
Steve
Amazon
Extremely well written with an exciting and intricate storyline. Some of the language was modern and, likely not, period-accurate but did not detract from the pleasure of the book! Looking for more from this author.
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History…its value
I was listening to Levi Lusko as he talked about “You Have a New Memory.” He talked about just
Life for the Rich in Rome
Life in Rome was never easy for anyone. Yes, we all know the plebs and barbarians had it rough.
Threathened Loyalties – Life with the rich and famous of Herculaneum
Here you have the setting of my whole story of Threatened Loyalties. In the background is Vesuvius. Before you
Vesuvius and Herculaneum
To many these are just pictures of an ancient city in the area called Campania that is old. A
Oh! Those Kids!!!
Kids! Just what are you going to do with them? Me? I write about them. They are fun, but
One Tough Warrior Woman – BOUDICA – “Queen of the Iceni”
It was believed among the Celts that the women had as much to lose as the men. If in
Red Fury Rebellion…the year of Four Emperors
Galba Otho Vitellius Vespasian I am not going to lie to you. I am having too much fun with
Happy Birthday to Rome
Even after 2774 years!! So why celebrate Rome? Why not. After all, that time period really did give the
I’VE BEEN HERE. “CAHOKIA MOUNDS”
And it’s not in Missouri but in Illinois just across the river from St. Louis. There REALLY used to
Trucking 101
Where would we be without truckers? We do not even want to consider that idea. Just take a scan
50 Hilarious Rome Puns & Inspiration for Rome Instagram Captions
Looking for hilarious Rome puns to share with friends before a trip to Rome? Or want a few clever
Celtic influences on Christmas traditions and roots
Borrowing from Irish Central, I have learned about how the Celtic people have influenced our Christmas ho Christmas has
The art of Historical Fiction
Like painting, writing is an art. Learned art. Learned by play, by rewrite, by frustration. However, it is what
Working With Slaves
I do not condone slavery in any of its insults to humanity. But slavery is a fact of history
Keeping Us Surviving
THANK YOU America is going through a tough time right now. And if we never noticed before, it is
Open, Honest, and Messy
Yes. Love can be that way I was recently surprised that my idea of complicated situations in love is
And Where Are You From
Truckers talk funny. The long hours of bringing you nearly everything in your house, somehow makes truckers very creative.
The Horrors of Editing
My excuse….I had just started publishing books and, being an ‘Indie’ who is not really ‘attention to detail’ as
Dangers of Editing
OH MY. I’m seeing that learning can be quite an embarrassing experience. What I thought was a polished manuscript
About JF Ridgley
“Isn’t it amazing how smart mothers are? We overlook this growing up, rebel against them even. But time changes that. Well, it did with me. I remember my mother saying, “Times change. People don’t.” And mom was right..”
I got into writing because of, King Arthur. I have a draft of his story in the archives of my computer…somewhere. Shadows in the Mist I named it. It has a great story with all but Gawain and the Green Knight. I have all the other popular stories I could find of Arthur melded into Shadows. All but that headless knight. How can you work that one in? I still don’t know. The draft is long. Very long. And, as Ann LaMont calls it, a ‘shitty first draft’. Oh, I thought my creation was wonderful. Beautiful. Now with learning this craft of writing, OMG it’s terrible. It needs rewriting, character development, setting details, sensories. I plan to get back to it one day. I promise.
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Off-duty California cop saves choking baby on way home from the movie theater.
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Off-duty California cop saves choking baby on way home from the movie theater.
An off-duty California police officer jumped into action to save a choking baby while on his way home from the movies over the weekend. San Pablo police officer Gilbert Troche told KRON-TV that he and his family were driving home when they spotted a hysterical mother holding her baby on the side of a road in Livermore...
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Hardware Store Billionaire Explains Big Potential Problem for Americans and Their Money. Ken Langone is the son of Italian immigrants, who describes himself as “a dumb kid from Long Island that barely got out of high school and almost flunked out of college.” Langone’s dad was a plumber… his mom worked in a school cafeteria...
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A Roman Affair.
This short story travels through the first three books of my Red Fury-Agricola series. It truly is a back story on what affects Julius throughout his life in these stories. I was stunned at how the cape pin did. Yes, I know I wrote the scenes, but really, I just get to be the first to find out.
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History…its value
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How Signing Bonuses Spread From Ancient Rome to Amazon.
The signing bonus, once the province of elite athletes and corporate executives, has gone mainstream. In the tightest labor market in years, employers like Amazon are shelling out thousands of dollars upfront to truck drivers...
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Ancient Roman vacationers consumed gobs of olive oil and fish, volcano victims reveal. Almost 2000 years ago, a volcanic eruption buried the seaside Roman town of Herculaneum in the same rush of hot ash and gas that decimated Pompeii...
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Rome tourists can cool off like emperors at Domitian’s palace on Palatine hill
Tourists are being treated like the emperors of 2,000 years ago as archaeologists turn on the opulent fountain of a palace on the Palatine hill to cool visitors in the scorching summer heat...
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Five good things that happened in trucking this week.
As we enter the halfway point into the second year of the COVID-19 pandemic, the world continues to turn, and the trucking industry continues to make a difference in the community. Here are five good things that happened in trucking this week...
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11 Roman Emperors Who Helped Mold the Ancient World
Few periods in history have had a greater impact on humankind than that of ancient Rome. While its influence on western civilization, in particular, has been ubiquitous, its remnants can be found virtually everywhere, from our calendar and political systems to our alphabet...
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3 Ways to Help Lighten the Load on Truckers
If you want to know where our economy is headed, just ask a trucker. The problem is they are harder to find now than ever before. Captured in daily headlines, a nationwide shortage of available truck drivers is straining the supply chain, causing delays in the delivery of fuel, furniture, and other goods and increasing the price of everything. When trucks are moving, the economy is growing...
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How Julius Caesar’s Assassination Triggered the Fall of the Roman Republic.
By the time Julius Caesar stepped in front of the Roman Senate on the Ides of March in 44 B.C., the nearly 500-year-old Roman Republic had been ailing for years. Wealth inequality, political gridlock, and civil wars had all weakened the republic in the century prior to Caesar’s ascension to power...
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Pennsylvania tornado tosses truck like a toy in the terrifying video.
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During 200 years of relative peace and prosperity, the Roman Empire reached the peak of its political and economic power. After decades of political dysfunction, civil wars, and assassinations that caused the Roman Republic’s downfall...
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Trucking industry continues to face a driver shortage
Trucking companies continue to be behind when it comes to finding enough drivers to get behind the wheel.
"We had people that retired early during the pandemic, and then we have so many different jobs out there now that are fighting for the same people that we are trying to get into trucks,” Neville says. “
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What is the latest in my writing world?
A ROMAN AFFAIR!
Back to working on the short story to Rage. Julius’ mother and her lover Suetonius have quite a history that Julius has no clue about. I’m in the final edit of their story and it will be out this summer. It is truly Roman and a very real possibility.
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How Did The Ancient Roman Senate Work?
Eager young politicians in modern nations today might be disappointed to learn that the word “senate” derives from the Latin “Senex,” meaning “old man.” The original Roman Senate was quite literally a governmental body made up of the oldest, most venerated citizens.
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Trucking Turns From Pandemic to Prosperity.
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Well, Vesuvius did it. It blew its top by now and Pompeii and Herculaneum are buried and everything in between. People died. Few escaped. It buried this elegant rich cities that were never found for many years.
Herculaneum was found when men digging for a well, burst into the Balbus’ theater in Herculaneum. The French, during the French Revolution, found Pompeii and proceeded to take many of the precious relics including the fantastic marble walls that now line its own castle walls.
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A trove of Roman Weapons Unearthed at Ancient Settlement in Spain.
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Love in the time of Covid: How much have relationships evolved in the pandemic?
Relationships are fragile; sometimes it takes a great tragedy, such as a pandemic, to rip them apart. Neha (name changed), a Delhi-based software engineer broke up with her Jaipur-based boyfriend two months ago, owing to the stress of keeping up with a long-distance relationship in lockdown. They were slated to get married later this month...
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How the ancients invented prosthetics?
Prostheses date back to ancient times and saw advances that were heralded as no less life-changing than as they are today. Whether survivors in the ancient era were injured in battle by a blade, spear, or missile, or in camp by frostbite or trench foot, their arms, legs, and extremities were incredibly vulnerable. In Ancient Greece, they benefited from simple surgical amputations as far back as the late fifth or early fourth century BC...
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Threatened Loyalties and For the Family.
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A ROMAN AFFAIR - J.F. Ridgley
Coming out everywhere… any day now. Stay tuned to this love affair that goes completely wrong.
“When Julius Agricola’s mother Procilla and her lover Suetonius Paulinus lives converge in ancient Rome, they discover that little lies can lead to huge consequences. Procilla’s love is torn between her son and the man she thought she loved more than life itself. How can their romantic twist of fate lead to an angry betrayal and a quest for deadly vengeance?”
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This Stone May Be Key to Mysterious Yet Influential Ancient Culture.
The Etruscans, a massively influential culture admired by both ancient Greeks and Romans, are largely a mystery to us today because much of their writing has perished, Ars Technica reports. That may change with a 500-pound slab of sandstone containing 70 letters and punctuation marks from the Etruscan language discovered by archaeologists northeast of Florence...
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Life for the Rich in Rome.
Life in Rome was never easy for anyone. Yes, we all know the plebs and barbarians had it rough. But well, so did the elite. In some ways, their lives were even more difficult. You see, at least the plebs and barbarians lived their lives as they decided…usually. They chose whom they married or how they survived. It was not all laid out from birth as it was for patrician kids.
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Threatened Loyalties and For the Family.
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Didius Julianus: The Roman Emperor Who Bought the Imperial Throne—and Paid With His Life. The notorious “Auction of the Empire” reveals what eventually happens when a civilization succumbs to concentrated power and corruption...
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Five good things that happened in trucking.
TCA Scholarship Fund awards most students to date; announces new scholarship, Women In Trucking opens nominations for 2021 Influential Woman in Trucking Award, West Michigan parts campaign raises $12,500 for local charities, and more.
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Threatened Loyalties and For the Family.
Enter to win! The winner receives:
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- For the Family (companion book to Threatened Loyalties)
- Custom Threatened Loyalties mug
- Custom-designed one-of-a-kind medallion necklace
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Ancient Roman road and dock discovered in Venice lagoon.
The discovery of the remains of a Roman road and dock submerged in the Venice lagoon could prove there were permanent human settlements in the area centuries before Venice was founded, researchers say...
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What does the 2,700-page infrastructure bill do for trucking?
The Senate’s $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill could be a big start toward repairing crumbling roads and bridges across the U.S. It also would focus on finding new drivers and creating new ways to tax and regulate the transportation industry...
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CONTEST
Threatened Loyalties and For the Family.
Enter to win! The winner receives:
- Threatened Loyalties book
- For the Family (companion book to Threatened Loyalties)
- Custom Threatened Loyalties mug
- Custom-designed one-of-a-kind medallion necklace
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Dine outside at these 15 top tables in Rome, Italy.
Visitors to Rome have long fallen in love with the city over a carbonara or Roman-style pizza. Recent restrictions and a preference by many to dine outdoors have created even more options for visitors to dine al fresco. Some backdrops are so imposingly beautiful that you might not even notice the food...
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Trucker honored for fighting big rig fire at a truck stop.
A truck driver and former member of the U.S. Navy was honored with the Truckload Carriers Association (TCA) for stepping up when a truck caught fire at a Love’s location...
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Life for Julius is getting worse…of course. Nero and Galba are dead and I am moving in on Otho in the War of 69AD. This story is turning out to be a blast to write. I am looking forward to sharing it in Spring 2022.
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What did the ancient Romans eat?
It's sunset in Rome, outside the city walls. Golden light filters through umbrella pines and casts its glow on a straight stretch of smooth basalt stones that changed the course of history. This is the Appian Way, the first road built in Rome, where more than 2,000 years ago soldiers set out to conquer distant lands and returned in triumph.
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Italy wins battle over the ancient bust of Alexander the Great.
A US judge has dismissed a lawsuit brought against Italy by a New York art dealer in a battle for possession of an ancient marble bust representing Alexander the Great as the sun god Helios...
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Vesuvius Victim Identified as Elite Roman Soldier Sent on Failed Rescue Mission.
A new analysis of a man killed by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius suggests that he was most likely an elite Roman soldier sent on an unsuccessful mission to rescue refugees from the natural disaster...
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The ancient world was full of warrior women – and men were terrified of them.
In the ancient world, when women did go to war, it was usually reported as a complete reversal of the natural order of things. The ancients believed as Homer’s Iliad claimed, that “war will be men’s business”. In the eyes of the (male) contemporary historians, female warriors were aberrations and often remembered as embodiments of the mythical one-breasted Amazons.
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Threathened Loyalties - Life with the rich and famous of Herculaneum.
In Threatened Loyalties, you attend a party at the infamous Villa of Papyri. Life for Alexia and Messalina gets really scary after this party.
JPaul Getty is like me, he loved Rome and obtained a copy of the ancient papyri of the floorplan and rebuilt the Villa of Papyri in Malibu CA USA. I got to go there and visit this replica. (PS it’s free to go to but you need to obtain free tickets for parking. Don’t miss it.
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Real-Life Love Stories That Will Remind You True Love Does Exist.
Despite abject poverty and social stigmas of his “untouchable” caste, Pradyumna Kumar Mahanandia earned a place as a student at the College of Art in New Delhi.
Following his painting of Indira Gandhi, many people wanted him to draw them. One of those was Charlotte Von Schedvin, who was traveling in India...
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Top 10 Beautiful Love Stories from Ancient Mythology!
Mythology is a word that piques my interest every time. I love reading stories from various classical mythological texts. Indian, Greek, and Egyptian mythology especially have always been on top of my list.
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The trucking boss fires back at a motorist who complained about a semi-truck taking up too many spaces in an empty parking lot. A trucking company owner has the support of the general public after firing back at a disgruntled citizen apparently enraged by a trucker taking up ‘too many spaces’ in a nearly empty parking lot...
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For the Family.
Balbus was proconsul of Rome, a senator, and the ‘first citizen of Herculaneum.’ Balbus and his family, two daughters, wife, mother, and son’s statues were found in the theater that he was responsible for building for the city along with the baths where his family statues were found...
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Volcanoes of the World.
Every volcano in the world that has erupted within the past 10,000 years or is considered potentially active and many extinct volcanoes are listed.
If you have interesting material about a volcano (or a region), in particular images, news, eye-witness accounts, etc. you like to share, please get in touch with us or send us the material for review.
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Vesuvius and Herculaneum.
To many these are just pictures of an ancient city in the area called Campania that is old. A moment caught in modern time because we can take pictures. In fact, these are MY pictures that I took when I was there...
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What can destroy a young girl's heart and turn it to stone?. Messalina Claudia wants nothing to do with her parent's arranged marriage with Marcus Galerius Alexius. But her need to find her missing friend requires his help. Their perilous pursuit of Rosa uncovers the political underbelly of the first citizens of the Ancient Roman city of Herculaneum.
In order to regain Messalina’s loyalties. Alexius must risk everything: his family’s reputation, future as a Roman senator, even his life beneath the shadows of a very restless volcano, Vesuvius where Vulcan’s wrath simmers.
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My Villa Tour.. Threatened Loyalties
Messalina Claudia wants nothing to do with her parent's arranged marriage with Marcus Galerius Alexius. But her need to find her missing friend requires his help. Their perilous pursuit of Rosa uncovers the political underbelly of the first citizens of the Ancient Roman city of Herculaneum.
In order to regain Messalina’s loyalties. Alexius must risk everything: his family’s reputation, future as a Roman senator, even his life beneath the shadows of a very restless volcano, Vesuvius where Vulcan’s wrath simmers.
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Threatened Loyalties.
Messalina Claudia and Marcus Galerius Alexius, desperately search for Messallna's friend, Nonia Rosa But this pursuit uncovers the political underbelly of greed, lust, and violence from the first citizens in the ancient Roman city of Herculaneum.
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Threatened Loyalties. Threatened Loyalties.
Messalina Claudia wants nothing to do with her parent's arranged marriage with Marcus Galerius Alexius. But her need to find her missing friend requires his help. Their perilous pursuit of Rosa uncovers the political underbelly of the first citizens of the Ancient Roman city of Herculaneum.
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The Fall of the Roman Empire.
After Marcus Aurelius is poisoned, his cruel son Commodus becomes emperor.
Historical epic starring Alec Guinness and Sophia Loren. After Marcus Aurelius is poisoned, his cruel son Commodus becomes emperor and quickly reveals a tyrannical streak.
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How to Make a Long-Distance Relationship Work, According to Experts.
I may be standing on top of a mountain in New Zealand, 7,000 miles away from my husband, but I don’t think we’ve ever been happier or felt more in love. When I FaceTime him we laugh and giggle like newlyweds...
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The 10 best love songs to win an Academy Award.
The statuette for the Best Original Song Oscar, for a song specifically written for a movie, was first handed out in 1934. In the eight decades since, there have been some magnificent winners, including “White Christmas” and “When You Wish Upon a Star”.
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Semi truck shooter caught on camera, $2k reward for information on suspect.
Officials in Arkansas are offering up a $2,000 reward for information regarding the identity of a man who shot into an occupied semi truck...
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Rare stone discovered outlining ancient Rome's city limits.
Archaeologists have discovered a rare stone delineating the city limits of ancient Rome that dates from the age of Emperor Claudius in 49 A.D. and was found during excavations for a new sewage system. Rome Mayor Virginia Raggi was on hand for the unveiling Friday of the pomerial stone, a huge slab of travertine that was used as a sacred, military, and political perimeter marking the edge of the city proper with Rome’s outer territory.
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9 signs the person you’re dating is right for you.
Relationships are hard work. Once you’ve moved past the initial period of infatuation often referred to as “the honeymoon phase” reality sinks in, and you start to get a deeper sense of who someone is and whether or not they might be right for you...
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New research reveals the ‘spectacular’ secrets of Britain’s earliest stone circles. Mystery has long surrounded the hundreds of ancient stone monuments found in Britain, from Stonehenge to Castlerigg in the Lake District.
But for the first time, archaeologists have been able to prove the two oldest stone circles in the country were deliberately constructed to align with the orbits of the sun and the moon.
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Five good things that happened in trucking.
Pilot Company surprises 40-year driver with custom Peterbilt truck, J.B. Hunt commits $5M to Arkansas Children’s hospital, Kids give truckers a homecoming to remember, and more...
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Britannia, druids, and the surprisingly modern origins of myths.
The new TV series Britannia, which has won plaudits as heralding a new generation of British folk horror, is clearly not intended to be strictly historical. Instead, director Jez Butterworth gives us a graphic re-imagining of Britain on the eve of the Roman conquest...
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Oh! Those Kids!!!
Kids! Just what are you going to do with them? Me? I write about them. They are fun, but sometimes I do not like what they are doing. Take Birth of a Bully. That was a hard write in many ways. Bullies are not born really. They are made. By a parent usually who is a bully himself or herself. Actually, it’s quite ugly. Young Cassius has a patrician father who is a classic bully. ‘You will not let that plebe push you around!”
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Slave Collars in Ancient Rome.
The objects purported to speak for the wearer: “Hold me! I have run away.”
Among the most fascinating relics of ancient Roman culture are “speaking objects,” a broad category of artifacts bearing inscriptions written in the first person, as if the object itself is addressing the viewer...
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Dozens of army camps from Ancient Rome were discovered.
Archaeologists have uncovered dozens of 2,000-year-old army camps from Ancient Rome in Spain, according to a new study. The research, published in Geosciences, details the enormity of the Roman Army as it marched, conquering the Iberian Peninsula and subsequent areas...
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From the driver’s seat: Truck safety perspectives.
Rather than teaching commercial vehicle operators to solely depend on a truck’s safety technology, two commercial drivers and driver trainers emphasize the importance of staying one step ahead on the road.
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Mediterranean Sea warmer during Roman Empire than any other time in the past 2,000 years. The research, published in Scientific Reports, notes the Mediterranean was 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit (2 degrees Celsius) warmer "than average values for the late centuries for the Sicily and Western Mediterranean regions...
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2,000-year-old Julius Caesar's assassination coin' surfaces, may be worth millions.
An extremely rare Roman coin commemorating the assassination of Julius Caesar has surfaced and may be worth millions of dollars, according to coin experts.
“It was made in 42 B.C., two years after the famous assassination, and is one of the most important and valuable coins of the ancient world,"...
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The next pandemic: Cybercrime.
The transportation industry, where a lot of money changes hands every second, is becoming a big target for cybercriminals. If a fleet isn’t prepared for an attack, it might already be too late...
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From all of us here at @JF Ridgley Author, We wish you a happy USA Independence Day!
May the fireworks of pride, solitude, and love for your country dwell in your heart.
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Torlonia marbles: 'The priceless statues I saw covered in dust and dirt'
The first time I saw the amazing Torlonia Marbles was more than 40 years ago. They were crammed higgledy-piggledy into a series of ill-lit strong rooms behind steel doors, and covered in dust, grime, and rat droppings. It was a real shock to glimpse valuable and famous works of art in such a sorry, dirty, abandoned state.
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Boudica (also written as Boadicea) was a Celtic queen who led a revolt against Roman rule in ancient Britain in A.D. 60 or 61. As all of the existing information about her comes from Roman scholars, particularly Tacitus and Cassius Dio, little is known about her early life; it’s believed she was born into an elite family in Camulodunum (now Colchester) around A.D. 30.
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Getting drivers paid quicker.
Truck drivers work hard and want to get paid well for it. But often their pay structure is very complex: base pay plus accessorial fees plus company bonuses and so on. And is the base pay based on mileage, loads, or hours? The complexity of truck drivers' pay is not easy to manage. Some of the most common types of pay are...
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One Tough Warrior Woman – BOUDICA – “Queen of the Iceni”.
It was believed among the Celts that the women had as much to lose as the men. If in time of war, they chose to fight for their tribes and their survival, it was just fine with the men. And one such woman did. Boudica, queen of the Iceni. Because the Britanni people at this time had an oral language (or not written), no one really knows how to spell her name. Boudicca, Boudicea the list goes on. I chose to spell her name according to a modern-day historian, Graham Webster who spelled her name-Boudica.
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How lead caused the downfall of ancient Rome?
Ancient Rome’s emperors did some pretty bizarre stuff – bursting into uncontrollable fits of laughter, appointing a horse as a priest, dressing in animal skins, and attacking people … the list goes on. Why were they acting that way? Well, it might have been lead poisoning. In this week’s episode, we unwrap the possibility that leads caused the Roman Empire’s collapse...
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Trucking Industry Outlook: What to Expect in 2021?
When the COVID-19 pandemic hit in early 2020, the U.S. trucking industry — like many others in the supply chain management sector — encountered new and evolving challenges...
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Archaeologists uncover ancient ceremonial chariot near Pompeii.
Ornate carriage embellished with erotic scenes may have been used for marriage rituals. A ceremonial chariot has been discovered during excavations of a Roman villa just outside the walls of ancient Pompeii.
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Love in the time of Covid: How much have relationships evolved in the pandemic?
"Couples have already got a taste [of this extraordinary circumstance] from last year's experience. They have realized if they survived this before, they can survive this again".
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Love backwards!
Can you really love backwards? Find out.
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One of the most beloved books is Jean M Auel’s series Clan of the Cave Bear. I enjoyed it. What struck me most about the book was the issue she delved into regarding family and culture. Ayla was caught between worlds. The world she was born into (the West/ matriarchal) and the world where she was raised (East/patriarchal). It was a clash of cultures as well as a love story of a ‘girl’ finding her roots and her way. It’s actually a beautiful story.
Actually, that has been the way for much of history. Patriarchal is governed by the father or patriarch and is well known in Roman history. But it did not start there. The east has always been very male-driven even today. The west has been more respectful of the woman’s role, more supportive. As the Native Americans felt was ‘she’ has as much to lose as the men. Celts, before Roman influence, agreed. That changed with the advent of the Romans.
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The ancient world was full of warrior women – and men were terrified of them.
One of the great things about computer games is that anything is possible in the almost endless array of situations on offer, whether in reality or fantasy worlds. But it has been reported that gamers are boycotting Total War: Rome II on the grounds of historical accuracy after developers introduced women, generals, apparently to please “feminists”...
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Father’s Day gift guide for truckers.
Useful items any big-rig-driving dad would appreciate for Father’s Day. Finding the right Father's Day gift that tells your dad you love him and respect his essential role in the transportation industry isn't always easy. Here are some last-minute ideas...
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