Instead Of A Cigarette » History http://instead-of-a-cigarette.com Stop Smoking Culture Mon, 05 Mar 2012 23:06:08 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 SPQR http://instead-of-a-cigarette.com/spqr/stop-smoking/ http://instead-of-a-cigarette.com/spqr/stop-smoking/#comments Wed, 18 Jun 2008 16:02:24 +0000 APG http://instead-of-a-cigarette.com/spqr/


SPQR is an initialism from a Latin phrase, Senātus Populusque Rōmānus (”The Senate and Roman People”), used as an official signature of the government of the ancient Roman Republic. In modern usage, SPQR is the motto of the city of Rome.

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A Bollywood version of the life of the Indian emperor Ashoka, of the Maurya dynasty, who ruled much of South Asia from 273 BCE to 232 BCE. The film was directed by Santosh Sivan and stars Shahrukh Khan as Ashoka and Kareena Kapoor as Kaurwaki, a princess of Kalinga.

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Tak ta tak ta tak, mm hm
San sanana nan, san sanana nan - 2
Tak ta tak ta tak, tik thai
Tak ta tak ta tak, tak tak
Tak ta tak ta tak, tik thai, tak tak
(San sanana nana, san sanana nan
Jaa jaa re jaa re jaa re, jaa re pawan) - 2
Mere jaisa dhoondke laa mera sajan
San sanana nana, san sanana nan
Jaa jaa re jaa re jaa re, jaa re pawan
Aisa kahin koi nahin - 2
Aisa ho to shaayad main kar loon milan - 2
Jaa jaa, jaa re pawan, jaa re pawan
San sanana nana, san sanana nan
Jaa jaa re jaa re jaa re, jaa re pawan
Aakaash hai koi prem kavi
Main uski likhi kavita
Oh, aakaash hai koi prem kavi
Main uski likhi kavita
Mere jaisa koi nahin aaya jag mein yug beeta
Chhoo na sake koi mujhe - 2
Chhoo le to haai lag jaaye aggan - 2
Jaa jaa re jaa, jaa re pawan, jaa re pawan
San sanana nana, san sanana nan
Jaa jaa re jaa re jaa re, jaa re pawan
Yea yea yea yea, yea yea yea yea
Main aap hi apni premika
Main aap hi apni saheli
Haan, main aap hi apni premika
Main aap hi apni saheli
Aur nahin koi apne jaise, bas main ek akeli
Main aaoon to, main jaaoon to - 2
Mujhko dekhe jhuk ke gagan - 2
Jaa jaa, jaa re pawan, jaa re pawan
San sanana nana, san sanana nan
Jaa jaa re jaa re jaa re, jaa re pawan
Mere jaisa dhoondke laa mera sajan
(San sanana nana, san sanana nan
Jaa jaa re jaa re jaa re, jaa re pawan) - 2
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 Considered the greatest of the Mughal emperors, Akbar was a polymath.

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Pericles (Greek Περικλῆς) was general or strategos of Athens, statesman and orator. He led the city from c. 461 BC to 429 BC, between the Persian and Peloponnesian wars.Roman copy after a Greek original from c. 430 BC This period is known as Athens’ Golden Age or Age of Pericles. He practically ruled as a king over the Athenian democracy, and built the city into a powerful Empire. He was the one who masterminded the building of the Parthenon c. 450. Pericles died in the year 429 BC around the age of sixty-five, from the great plague that wiped out a quarter of the Athenian population. After his death, Athens lost the second Peloponnesian War to Sparta: the city had come to the end of its Empire.

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Ivan IV Vasilyevich (1530-1584), known in Russia as Ivan Grozny, “Ivan the Terrible”, was the first ruler to be crowned Czar of All Russia in 1547.

Ivan distrusted the boyars, the highest members of the aristocracy, who molested him as a child and certainly poisoned his mother. In the first years of his reign, Ivan reformed the government, church and army, and improved the lives of lower people. But in 1560, when his beloved wife Anastasia died, Ivan became a cruel and merciless ruler, although he was very much involved in religion. Ivan became famous for his massacres, public executions, and furious temper: one day, he accenditally killed his own son. Some people think he died poisoned.

Ilya Repin, Ivan the Terrible killing his son

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Frederick II (1712-1786), or Frederick the Great, third and last King of Prussia, was a monarch of the Hohenzollern dynasty.

Frederick II of Prussia

Frederick patronized philosophers as Kant or Voltaire, musicians like C. P. E. Bach and Johann Joachim Quantz, and others. He was himself interested in arts and literature, and spoke nearly 10 modern and ancient languages. Talented musician, he played the flute and wrote 100 sonatas for this instrument, as well as 4 symphonies! His statesmanship was praised all over Europe. Goethe called him “a Pole Star”.

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The Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation, an attempt to resurrect the Western Roman Empire ended in 476, was a conglomeration of lands in Central Europe. It was an elective monarchy, and the Emperor was crowned by the Pope until the beginning of the 16th century. The Empire began with the coronation of Otto I in 962 and ended in 1806 following a military defeat by Napoleon I. The single-headed Imperial Eagle was the symbol of the Holy Roman Empire.

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the pyramid of the sun

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The Maya Civilisation in Mesoamerica is a pre-Columbian civilisation that appeared c. 2600 BC, reached its apogee c. 250-900 and ended with the arrival of the Spanish (16th century). This civilisation is noted for its written language, astronomical system (they used a more precise calendar than ours), mathematical system (a base 20 numbering system and the concept of zero), and above all for its architecture (astonishing Maya stepped pyramids).

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Charlemagne (742 or 747 – 814), in latin Carolus Magnus meaning “Charles the Great”, was King of the Franks. He was the son of Pepin the Short and Betrada of Laon (also called Bertra with the big feet).

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Charlemagne conquered Italy, and became Emperator Romanorum (Emperor of the Romans), and the renewer of the Western Roman Empire, after his coronation by Pope Leo III on Christmas Day, 25 December 800. He is sometimes regarded as the Father of Europe. Above, the monogram of Charlemagne.

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The Battle of Actium, fought on September 2, 31 BC, was a decisive naval engagement in the Roman Civil War between Octavian and Mark Antony. Mark Antony and his beloved Cleopatra, queen of Egypt, were defeated and eventually both committed suicide.

Lorenzo A. Castro, The Battle of Actium (1672)

After his victory, Octavian became Augustus Caesar. This was the end of the Roman Republic, and the beginning of the Roman Empire.

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