what had doubtless all. he s been his desire namely to make an end of the whole city and realm during his lifetime. because usually the main problem with these accounts lies in the fact that nero s image was colored by bias and hatred in one class it was the type tacitus plays a low-z. trick with nero in the great fire because he suggests that nero was responsible for the fire without openly saying so if he had come right out and said it his claim could very easily have been identified as an anti nero representation and very quickly discredited as such but by portraying the whole thing as a rumor as something vague and repeatedly portraying nero with such ambivalence tacitus lends greater credence to the impression that nero actually did set fire to rome more than he would have if he d just alleged it straight out it. was at the
still felt that he had arrived too late. before and we know from the examples of other roman rulers and even arrested kratz of the republic that when it comes to catastrophes it s always key to show up as quickly as possible nero missed that opportunity as mukesh no presents to the office on. christian graves dating from the first century. early evidence of a new sect that would rise to become a world religion. x. and p. alpha and omega the first and last letters of the greek alphabet suggest the all encompassing nature of god. ancient writers repeatedly reference christians and christ in their accounts of the great fire. tacitus wrote nero fastened the guilt and inflicted the most exquisite tortures on
reporting from ukraine china is renowned for its historic great wall building started on the mammoth fortification back in the third century b.c. to protect china from invaders all these days trying to also has another wall known as the great fire wall of china it s supposed to protect chinese citizens from undesired foreign influences and first set up in two thousand the great fire wall blocks access to certain websites and terms that the chinese government deems dangerous any with of criticism of the government or terms that refer for example to the student massacre. square in one thousand nine hundred nine oh that s for hit in the past the tech giant google has spoken out against such internet censorship in fact that is why it pulled out of china back in two thousand and ten at the time google s co-founder said this will take a look at that our objection is to those forces of totalitarianism our hope is
very creepy, check it out at your own risk. i love the cities that have hauntings, like chicago. the erie city has a great past from the great fire of 1871 to the gangsters of the 1820s. i remember taking the chicago haunting tour. there s a woman named ursela balescy. she runs these tours and will tell you about the theater that claims to be haunted. so many different places to go around chicago. and stay at the congress plaza hotel. the hotel ballroom has been known to be haunted. and also known to be owned by al capone. what about salem, massachusetts where, the witch trials were? yes, the salem witch trials in 1692. now every year salem puts on the festival of the dead for the entire month of october. so not just around halloween. you can conjure up your own spirits, dinner with the dead, recreating a witch circle
zone. it s basically made up of 17 square miles. it s u opening up on sunday. now, the south china morning post is reporting facebook, twitter and other sites are soon going to be able to be seen in that part of china. they were blocked because they re considered to be politically sensitive. twitter was a driving force behind the 2011 arab spring, helping to get the message out. even in 2009, there was a minority group in china that used facebook to organize against the government. so, in most of china, you can try to access those sites, you re going to get an error message. it s known as the great fire wall. thank you so much. oh, i get it. i got that. that was good. thank you, michael. yeah, the great fire wall of china. now, for 21 hours and change, senator ted cruz talked about why the senate should vote to defund obama care. he also took a few moments to vent about life and even read to his children. and talk about cowboy boots,