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Troy

An anchient Greek city in western Turkey. It is featured in three epic poems, the Illiad, which tells the story of the final years of the Trojan War, the Oddesy, which tells the story of Odesyus' return from that war, and the Aenid, which tells the story of Aeneas, who is a Trojan and will become the ancestor of the Roman people.

Troy was discovered in the 19tch century, and was proven to have existed. Untill then it was thought to be mythalogical.

by Disco Stu January 26, 2006

Goth/Gothic

A style of art, popular in Europe from the late 12th century to the early 16th century. It is also known as the International Style. Gothic art is mainly remembered in architecture. It was created by Abbot Sugert (Shu-ger). He planed to renovate the Cathedral of St. Denis, outside of Paris. Other famous gothic cathedrals include: Notre Dame, Chartres, Milan, and Pisa. The "Leaning Tower of Pisa" is actually the bell tower for that cathedral.

Gothic sculpture became more realistic, however, the forms tended to be elongated.

Gothic painting, like sculpture, had elongated forms, and was quite realistic. However, the artists failed to grasp vanishing point perspective. The most famous Gothic painter was Giotto.

I visited the Padua cathedral and saw Giotto's work. It was if he reinvented painting.

by Disco Stu October 15, 2003

SPQR

Latin abrevation for Senatus Populusque Romanus, the Senate and the People of Rome

When the Roman Legions would go into battle they carried a plaqe with SPQR engraved on it.

by Disco Stu September 29, 2003

memogate

The scandal in which liberal-biased CBS newsanchor Dan Rather aired on his 60 Minutes program documents that supposedly showed that George W. Bush received favorable treatment during his service as a national guardsman. The documents were later shown to be false. As a result, Rather's career has gone down the toilet, and he is resigning and stepping down from CBS Nightly News, effective as of March 2005.

1. Memogate ruined Dan Rather.

by Disco Stu December 8, 2004

Schlarper

An incredibly undesirable female.

How did the blind date go?
Man, she was a schlarper!

by Disco Stu December 30, 2003

wbs.net

The best internet chat site. In 1999 it was bought by Infoseak.com, and then that was bought by the evil Go.com. The Go network promptly closed WBS. Now it has been resurected under new ownership, but is just message boards, not chat.

I used to do RPGs on wbs, but then the Go Network ended that.

by Disco Stu November 2, 2003

vedas

The oldest religous texts in the world. They are belived to have been composed by a group of Indo-European nomads, named the Aryans. For most of their history they were oraly transmited, only being writen down somtime around 300 BCE. They are the devine scriptures for all Hindus.

The Rig-Veda is the oldest religous text in the world.

by disco stu October 3, 2003