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Ornamental wellhead (1st century AD) depicting a drunken Hercules as part of a Bacchic revel Votive altar dedicated to the Divine Fontes (plural) Fontus or Fons (pl.: Fontes, "Font" or "Source") was a god of wells and springs in ancient Roman religion. A religious festival called the Fontinalia was held on October
Livy also says that it became the longstanding practice in Rome that whenever a shower of stones was reported, a festival of nine days would be ordered in response. [25] Another irregular festival of note is the Secular Games. Over the course of several days there were sacrifices, entertainers, and games hosted by the state, attempting to be ...
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President Donald Trump is likely to dust off a 1930 trade law largely forgotten for decades to back his new reciprocal U.S. tariffs that will match other countries' higher import taxes, trade and ...
Kota Burden never expected a typical case of the flu would turn into a medical emergency. When her daughter contracted Influenza A in late January, she initially worked to manage the usual ...
The Wallenstein Festival, with around 4,500 participants and an estimated 150,000 visitors in 2016, is the largest historical festival in Europe. [3] The next largest historical festival in Germany is the Landshut Wedding with about 2,000 participants. Due to their high attention to detail, both are among the most notable historical festivals ...
A funerary stele of the 2nd century AD preserves the name of a shoemaker, Gaius Julius Helius, who was located somewhere around the gate. [7] Most notoriously, Gnaeus Calpurnius Piso , the supposed poisoner of the Emperor Tiberius' heir apparent Germanicus , had built structures above the gate to connect his private residences.