Me and Twitter

Twitter is alright for me, it just seems that it takes up too much time in the class to bring something up because its very slow. We probably have a bandwith problem, I probably would not want to use it for the final exam because it seems that it may jam up.

paragraph 11 nouns

Augustia: singular, accusative
Finis: singular nominative
Copias: singular, accusative
Haeduorum: plural, Genitive
Agros: plural, accusative
Haedui: plural, Genitive
Caesarem: singular, accusative
Auxilium: plural, Nominative

Bands using Nihil

For this blogpost, I attempted to see how many metal bands used Nihil in their songs, or their albums. The word means "nothing," so it's pretty certain to be common in death metal.

I found that it was the 8th album by industrial rock band KMFDM, released in 1995. Recorded in Seattle. Also nihil is the name of an Impaled Nazarene album. The 1st song of the album is called "Cogito Ergo Sum."

Nihil has also been asociated with the philosophy of Nihilism. Nihilism corresponds with people believing that life has no value whatsoever, and in extreme cases of nihilism people may believe that nothing exists.

Nihilism comes up in the movie "The Big Lebowski" where a bunch of Nihilists come into his house and pee on his rug. One of the actors playing the nihilists was Flea, from the Red Hot Chili Peppers. Flea is the best bass guitarist of all time.

Test

Qua de causa Helvetii quoque reliquos Gallos virtute praecedunt, quod fere cotidianis proeliis cum Germanis contendunt, cum aut suis finibus eos prohibent aut ipsi in eorum finibus bellum gerunt. Eorum una, pars, quam Gallos obtinere dictum est, initium capit a flumine Rhodano, continetur Garumna flumine, Oceano, finibus Belgarum, attingit etiam ab Sequanis et Helvetiis flumen Rhenum, vergit ad septentriones. Belgae ab extremis Galliae finibus oriuntur, pertinent ad inferiorem partem fluminis Rheni, spectant in septentrionem et orientem solem. Aquitania a Garumna flumine ad Pyrenaeos montes et eam partem Oceani quae est ad Hispaniam pertinet; spectat inter occasum solis et septentriones.

Apud Helvetios longe nobilissimus fuit et ditissimus Orgetorix. Is M. Messala, [et P.] M. Pisone consulibus regni cupiditate inductus coniurationem nobilitatis fecit et civitati persuasit ut de finibus suis cum omnibus copiis exirent: perfacile esse, cum virtute omnibus praestarent, totius Galliae imperio potiri. Id hoc facilius iis persuasit, quod undique loci natura Helvetii continentur: una ex parte flumine Rheno latissimo atque altissimo, qui agrum Helvetium a Germanis dividit; altera ex parte monte Iura altissimo, qui est inter Sequanos et Helvetios; tertia lacu Lemanno et flumine Rhodano, qui provinciam nostram ab Helvetiis dividit.

Therefore for this reason the Helvetii surpass the rest of the Gauls in valor, because they compete daily in battle with the savage Germans, either restraining them from their own land or carrying on war on German land. That alone, the region, is said to be maintained by the Gauls, is taken hold by the beginning of the Rhone River, hindered by the Garrone River, the ocean, and the Belgae territory, now too it touches the Rhine River on the Sequani and Helvetii, inclining to the north. The Belgae territory rises from the outer limits of Gaul, extends below the region of the Rhine river, and is seen rising north into the sun. The Aquitani extend by the Garrone river which flows to the Pyrenees mountains and through the region of Spain to the ocean, seeming to set with the sun.


Among the Helvetii the most noble by far was Orgetorix. In the consulship of Marcus Messala and Publius he lead in a conspiracy against the nobility persuading the community to rise under his command; doing so very easily, while supplying an entire army, his command would seize all of Gaul. He persuaded them easily, where everywhere Helvetians sprang forth to secure his rank: alone the Rhine river extended in broadness and height.

By the 5th century BC vigorous Celtic tribes spread outward from their homeland east of the Rhine. They were equipped with iron weapons, so they were able to press forward into Gaul and Spain. Sometime later they crossed the channel into England.

The Celts, just as other Gaulish tribes, were drinkers and story tellers, and took pride in fighting. Their values contradicted their civilized Roman neighbors, so they didn't really get along well. The Celts pushed south through the Alps, raiding and pillaging along the way. They sucessfully sacked Rome in 390 B.C. Some Gauls stayed in Italy, while some moved in the Alps to the south of Milan.

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Paragraph 11 Tribes and Rivers