As the worm turns in the Big Apple Oct 6, 2008
There aren't any Visigoths at the gates of the Imperial City. The striped suits did the deed on their own, blinded by the smoke from their Cohibas. (Boston Globe)
BLUES BY THE BAY: The decline and fall of the 49er empire Sep 2, 2008
Today the organization lays in ruins, reduced to smoldering rubble by invading waves of Goths (mismanagement), Visigoths (bad ownership) and Vandals (poor personnel decisions). There's no indication that fortunes will change any time soon. (SportsIllustrated.CNN)
Bizarre origins of wedding traditions Jul 1, 2008
It's said that feisty groups like the Huns, Goths and Visigoths took so many brides by force that they kept a cache of weapons stored beneath the floorboards of churches for convenience. Modern-day best men are more likely to store an emergency six-pack at the ceremony for convenience, but the title remains an apt one. (CNN -- Law)
Celtic days are here again Jun 19, 2008
The team that general manager Danny Ainge assembled last summer did to Kobe Bryant and the Los Angeles Lakers what the Visigoths once did to Rome. And they did it the way Auerbach would have wanted it done. (Boston Globe -- Sports)
At Venice's Palazzo Grassi, a fragmentary view of barbarian times Feb 16, 2008
" The show of more than 2,000 artifacts from 200 museums in 23 countries revives the policy of using Palazzo Grassi as the venue for blockbuster presentations of ancient civilizations - the Celts, Mayans and Etruscans were among them - established by the Fiat group during its tenure of the building from 1983 to 2005. The Palazzo was taken over by the French businessman Fran?ois Pinault, whose assets include Gucci and Christie's and he initially employed it as a showcase for his own collection of... (International Herald Tribune)
Amy Winehouse Feb 9, 2008
The pharmaceuticals, the lawsuits, the feuds with management, the arrests are standard-issue rock-star material, the equivalent of the Ostrogoths sacking Rome and acting like the Visigoths and the Vandals hadn't already tried that. Still, it is rare to see a female performer so precociously self-destructive that she can get in the ring with world-class screw-ups like Jim Morrison and Sid Vicious and more than hold her own. (Guardian Unlimited)
The Cause of the Vandal Jan 27, 2008
It had happened previously by the Gauls and the Visigoths in 387 B.C. and A.D. 410, respectively, and it would certainly not be the last ... Why can't destructive people be labeled visigoths, or Gauls. (Suite101.com)
Midwife to Europe's modernity Jan 13, 2008
What Lewis describes as the rapid commingling of Arabs and Berbers with Visigoths and Hispano-Romans produced the rich culture of Spain, and of the Mediterranean more broadly. As fascinating as Lewis's vignettes are, by focusing on history from above, he doesn't have the chance to tell us whether elite relations reflected the interactions and perceptions of regular people. (Boston Globe)
Review: God's Crucible Jan 5, 2008
Review: God's Crucible - International Herald Tribune. Eric Ormsby is the author, most recently, of "Ghazali: The Revival of Islam.". (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
You can't keep a good schoolboy down Dec 23, 2007
As the Visigoths of IT assemble, the ancien regime continues its stately minuet. The Nobel committee, meeting in 18th-century splendour, awarded its annual prize to Doris Lessing, a popular choice. (Guardian Unlimited -- Books)
Review: The Dirt on Clean Dec 15, 2007
" Ashenburg focuses on Western Europe and the United States, covering everything from fear of hot water (the Visigoths believed it was emasculating, while the French later saw it as a disease spreader) to British suspicion of bidets (which they thought would encourage oral sex) to Booker T. Washington's "gospel of the toothbrush," which urged African-Americans to pull themselves up to "a higher degree of civilization" through improved hygiene. Cleanliness certainly had its dark side: the... (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
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The Goths, Visigoths and Vandals are no more, but Rome still exisits. Nazi's have also fallen, but Western Europe and America still exisit. (Human Events Online)
Scheming princess behind Empire's fall Oct 23, 2007
Rome survived Attila's assault with the unlikely help of another nomadic enemy tribe, the Visigoths, but the Western Empire never recovered. Within a generation, the armies of the Goths, Franks, and Huns had overrun the area. (CNN)
Jimmy Page: Master of excess Sep 15, 2007
"The whole Led Zeppelin story is so overshadowed by all that clichd old bollocks about 'the rampaging rock Visigoths looting and plundering their way through the stadiums of the universe' that people forget the astonishing technical virtuosity of the whole escapade," he says. "Jimmy Page's guitar playing on 'Since I've Been Loving You' is one of the single greatest performances I've ever heard in my life as good as John Coltrane, Eric Clapton, Miles Davis or anyone. I still listen to it once a... (Independent)
Today in History August 24 Aug 24, 2007
In A.D. 410, Rome was overrun by the Visigoths, an event that symbolized the fall of the Western Roman Empire. In 1572, the St. Bartholomews Day massacre of French Protestants at the hands of Catholics began in Paris. (MSNBC -- Race)
Islamic Spain: history's refrain Aug 22, 2007
When the first Muslims crossed the straits of Gibraltar into Spain, the large Jewish population there was enduring a period of oppression by the Roman Catholic Visigoths. The Jewish minorities rallied to aid the Arab Muslims as liberators, and the divided Visigoths fell. (Christian Science Monitor)
Ancient writings bring new interest to Timbuktu Aug 7, 2007
dara held a treasure in his slender fingers that had somehow endured through 11 generations - a square of battered leather enclosing a history of the two branches of his family, one side reaching back to the Visigoths in Spain and the other to the ancient origins of the Songhai emperors who ruled this city at its zenith. "This is our family's story," he said, carefully leafing through the unbound pages. (International Herald Tribune)
Buying a Country Home in Spain Apr 29, 2007
Long before the arrival of cheap flights and package deals, the Phoenicians arrived to settle on its shores, followed by the Romans, Visigoths, Arabs, Jews and Gypsies which have all combined to produce the fiery mixture of blood and passion that marks this Iberian race. And used to acting as hosts - voluntarily or not - its people still now extend a warmth and curiosity to travellers, despite the millions that visit each year. (Suite101.com)
Why my Aussie friend understands our immigration failure Apr 11, 2007
AN wrote on April 10, 2007 7:12 AM:"I'm glad someone young gets it!!! The shrub should go read about the Visigoths and the fall of Rome. You let in who you consider "peasants" treat them as such and finally they turn on you. He (and Congress) can even watch the documentary. That was the true fall of Rome, not Christianity. What don't people get about illegal? ". Feedback Rules. (Lodi News Sentinel, CA)
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The Roman Empire outsourced when it grew too big to defend its empire, hiring Visigoths, Gauls, and various Germanic tribes to defend their outer territories. The Chinese paid the American Flying Tigers for each Japanese plane they shot down. (Searcy Daily Citizen, AR)
Fisk: Roman Empire Echoes Jan 3, 2007
And well, in the end, the Goths, Ostrogoths and Visigoths arrived in Rome ... But I must ask myself whether the "terrorists" - the Goths, Ostrogoths and Visigoths - will be stopped in Iraq. (Zmag.org)
