Romans often cooked over charcoal, so a hibachi-type charcoal grill is pretty authentically Roman!
"It's pretty cool," Mr. Roman said.
It's the archetypal idyllic small French town, with a garden square edged with cafes, pretty houses within Roman walls and shops that sell quality Provençal ceramics and linens, a cut above the tat you find in more touristy places.
- It's pretty likely the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Philadelphia kept a list of their pedophiliac priests, and just locked that list away in a vault instead of doing anything about it.
Caesar Augustus, it is said, roamed the hallways of his palace, crying, "Quinctilius Varus, give me back my legions!" Henceforth, the Romans pretty much wrote off the area east of the Rhine and north of the Alps.
Mr. Shishko said that when the rock opera debuted -- it was first released as a record in October 1970 -- "there was pretty uniform criticism from Roman Catholics and Protestants".
And if the Italians don't so much it is only because they are pretty pleased with the Roman empire and the Renaissance.
Letters made out of buildings and rivers and trees, as seen from the sky: probably not an imminent threat to Helvetica and/or Times New Roman but pretty none the less.
With 380 miles of coastline, and its fair share of pretty seaside villages and Roman ruins, the Adriatic underdog is being touted as the next Croatia among adventurous beach-seekers.
As a pretty much non-practising Roman Catholic, but one who won't deny a centuries-old heritage of Catholicism which has imprinted itself in my genes, I read with disappointment the blind and unhelpful attitude of Richard Dawkins towards Pope Benedict XVI (Critics call for arrest of pope on UK visit, 12 April).
