A Milliarium (plural milliaria) was a stone that was placed alongside Roman roads. Such stones were used from about the 3rd century BC. They marked the distance between two towns, and were placed at intervals of one Roman mile. This was about 1000 milia passum, or . In the celtic provinces, leagues are often used, these are 1500 milia passum, or about .
Very often the stones condain the following information:
Even if they look like modern road signs showing the distance to given places, this was probably not the first function of these stone pillars. What seems more likely is that they were used to show the power of the person who erected them; some were probably used for propaganda. Very often, the inscription of the emperor was in Latin, but the inscription of the distance was in Greek. The ordinary population could probably read the second part, but not the first. Today between 7.000 and 8.000 such stones are known.
Mount Pico
Mount Pico () is a composite volcano (or stratovolcano); it is the highest point of the Portuguese island of Pico in the Azores. With an altitude of above sea level, it is more than twice the elevation of any other peak in the Azores, and the tallest mountain in Portugal.
Mount Pico is at the eastern end of Pico Island. On the top of the mountain, there is round crater about in diameter and deep. Inside this crater () there is a small elevation produced by a recent, in geological terms, eruption that is known with the name of Pico Pequeno or Piquinho, which is about high. From the base of Pico Pequeno, volcanic smoke gets out with a strong odor of sulfur.
In winter, the top of the mountain is covered with snow. Rains are frequent the whole year.
Mount Pico was made a "Natural Reserve" in 1982 to protect the mountain. The reserve () has an area of about 1,500 hectares (15 km) and is from about high to the top of the mountain.
There are trails for hiking and it is possible, for persons in good conditions and depending on weather, to get to the top of the mountain in around two to four hours from the beginning of the trail.
In the lower part of its slopes is the "Paisagem da Cultura da Vinha da Ilha do Pico" ("Landscape of the Pico Island Vineyard Culture"), classified by UNESCO as a World Heritage.
The Two Gentlemen of Verona
The Two Gentlemen of Verona is a play by William Shakespeare. It is a comedy. It is one of the first plays he wrote. According to "The Guardian", "it is far from being his most polished work".
Mario Party DS
Mario Party DS is a party board video game for the Nintendo DS. It is part of the "Mario Party" series of video games. It was released in Japan on November 8, 2007, in North America on November 19, 2007, and in Europe on November 23, 2007.
"Mario Party DS" features the same gameplay seen in previous "Mario Party" games. Players go around on boards to collect coins, which they can use to buy stars. Movement is done with the use of a dice block with the numbers one through ten. After all four players take their turns, a mini-game is played. The player that wins the mini-game wins coins. The winner is the player with the most stars at the end of the game. While most mini-games use the buttons and control pad, others use the console's stylus and microphone.
Five boards are in the game. Each board is themed towards a character in the game. Eight characters are available for players to play as.
The minigames in Mario Party DS are up to around less than 70 mini-games. This paragraph will name them all: 4-Player Mini-Games: Goomba Wrangler, Rail Riders, Dress for Success, Camera Shy, Hedge Honcho, Study Fall, Domino Effect, Cherry-Go-Round,Trace Cadets, Soccer Survival, Hot Shots, Call of the Goomba, Pedal Pushers, Roller Coasters Get the Lead Out, Shortcut Circuit Big Blowout, Trash Landing, Cheep Cheep Chance, Whomp-a-thon, Twist and Route, Crater Crawl, Boogie Beam, Parachutin' Gallery, Boo Tag, Dust Buddies, Cyber Scamper, Soap Surfers, Sweet Sleuth, Tidal Fools, Raft Riot, All Geared Up | 1v3 Mini-Games: Power Washer, Peek-a-Boo, Fast Food Frenzy Track Star, Shuffleboard Showdown, Flash and Dash, Rubber Ducky Rodeo, Plush Crush, Rotisserie Rampage, Nothing to Luge, Penny Pinchers, Gusty Blizzard | 2v2 Mini-Games: Soil Toil, Double Vision, Memory Mash, Cube Crushers, Mole Thrill Sprinkler Scalers, Cucumber Jacks, Hanger Management, Book It!, Airbrushers, Toppling Terror, Crazy Crosshairs, Shorty Scorers | Battle Mini-Games: Cheep Chump, Star Catchers, Short Fuse, Globe Gunners, Chips and Dips | Boss Mini-Games: Feed and Seed, Hammer Chime, Hexoskeleton, Book Bash, Bowser's Block Party
Mario Party 8
Mario Party 8 is a party board video game for the Nintendo Wii. It is the eighth game in the "Mario Party" series of video games. It is the first "Mario Party" game for the Wii. It was released in North America on May 29, 2007, in Europe on June 22, 2007, and in Japan on July 26, 2007.
"Mario Party 8" plays the same as previous games in the "Mario Party" series. Players go around on boards to collect coins, which they can use to buy stars. Movement is done with the use of a dice block with the numbers one through ten. After all four players take their turns, a mini-game is played. The player that wins the mini-game wins coins. The winner is the player with the most stars at the end of the game. Gameplay is done with the use of the Wii Remote.
Six boards are in the game. While some boards have players get stars the same way as in previous "Mario Party" games, others have different ways. For example, in "Koopa's Tycoon Town," players get stars by putting coins into hotels (like "Monopoly"). The hotels give stars to the player with the most amount of coins in it. Fourteen characters are available for players to play as. Two characters, Blooper and Hammer Bro., make their first playable appearance in this game.
Mario Party 7
Mario Party 7 is a party board video game for the Nintendo GameCube game console. It is the seventh game in the "Mario Party" series. It is the last "Mario Party" game for the Nintendo GameCube. It was released in North America on November 7, 2005, in Japan on November 10, 2005, and in Europe on February 10, 2006.
"Mario Party 7" plays the same as previous games in the "Mario Party" series. Players go around on boards to collect coins, which they can use to buy stars. Movement is done with the use of a dice block with the numbers one through ten. After all four players take their turns, a mini-game is played. The player that wins the mini-game wins coins. The winner is the player with the most stars at the end of the game. A new feature in this game is "Bowser Time!". Every turn, a meter shaped like Bowser's face fills up a little bit. After every fifth turn, the meter fills up completely, and Bowser will appear to do something bad. What he does depends on the board.
Six boards are in the game. The last one has to be unlocked through Solo Made. Twelve characters are available for players to play as. Two of them, Birdo and Dry Bones, make their first playable appearance in this game.
Heinrich Rohrer
Heinrich Rohrer (6 June 1933 – 16 May 2013) was a Swiss physicist. He shared half of the 1986 Nobel Prize in Physics with Gerd Binnig for the design of the scanning tunneling microscope (STM). (The other half of the Prize was awarded to Ernst Ruska.)
Rohrer was born on 6 June 1933 in Buchs, St. Gallen, Switzerland. He was raised in Zürich, Switzerland. Rohrer studied at Swiss Federal Institute of Technology. He was never married. Rohrer died on 16 May 2013 in Wollerau, Switzerland after battling a disease, aged 79.
List of United States Senators from Illinois
Illinois was admitted to the Union on December 3, 1818, and has been represented in the United States Senate by 48 senators in history.
, six former senators are alive:
Flash Gordon (2007 television series)