The Theatre of Pompey was the worlds largest theatre ever built.
It was financed by Pompey The great during his second Consulship of the Ancient Roman Republic in 55 BC.
It was built in the Campus Martius area outside the ancient city walls.
It is behind this theatre in the curia of the Theatre of Pompey that Julius Caesar was murdered by the senate.
It was financed by Pompey The great during his second Consulship of the Ancient Roman Republic in 55 BC.
It was built in the Campus Martius area outside the ancient city walls.
It is behind this theatre in the curia of the Theatre of Pompey that Julius Caesar was murdered by the senate.
by Amadscientist April 6, 2009
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The Pompey 'fans' are known as skates and their team play at a place with is alledgely a football pitch. During the week, this is also used for grazing livestock.
A rather pointless and dreary place not worth visiting - avoid at all costs
The Pompey 'fans' are known as skates and their team play at a place with is alledgely a football pitch. During the week, this is also used for grazing livestock.
A rather pointless and dreary place not worth visiting - avoid at all costs
by Yoda-jedi October 14, 2006
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by zevina November 1, 2006
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I looked over my shoulder to see what that smacking sound was....staring back at me was my cat....caught red-handed working the pommel horse.
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When the Pompey football team host a home game and as many as 1,000 Millwall fans turn up, it is reckoned that the average IQ of the city rises by as much as 30 per cent during those two hours.
Pompey inspired Charles Darwin’s theory when he returned from his famous voyage on HMS Beagle and wrote the Origin of Species. The people of Pompey were he reckoned the missing link. Knuckles trailing along the ground wearing grooves in the pavement seemed to bear this theory out.
It was following a bombing raid on Pompey that the British Government considered paying the Luftwaffe for making such great improvements to the city.
When the Pompey football team host a home game and as many as 1,000 Millwall fans turn up, it is reckoned that the average IQ of the city rises by as much as 30 per cent during those two hours.
Pompey inspired Charles Darwin’s theory when he returned from his famous voyage on HMS Beagle and wrote the Origin of Species. The people of Pompey were he reckoned the missing link. Knuckles trailing along the ground wearing grooves in the pavement seemed to bear this theory out.
It was following a bombing raid on Pompey that the British Government considered paying the Luftwaffe for making such great improvements to the city.
by Alf Tupper July 29, 2008
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Usually used in the context of Aussies (or occasionally Kiwis or Saffas) expressing national pride, such as in sporting events between Australia and the UK/England, the term is also used when good-naturedly ribbing English people in these peoples' countries.
Usually used in the context of Aussies (or occasionally Kiwis or Saffas) expressing national pride, such as in sporting events between Australia and the UK/England, the term is also used when good-naturedly ribbing English people in these peoples' countries.
Pom: <Optimistically> "You know, England might just win the Ashes this year..."
Aussie: "Hahaha, yeah, good one mate, we're sending your boys packing back to Pommyland just like we always do"
Pom: *Sniff*
Pom: "I mean it, why aren't there more clouds in your sky! It's unnatural and my pasty skin can't handle your fucking sun!"
Aussie: "Or perhaps you should just fuck off back to cold old Pommyland you whinging pommy bastard"
<Pair share jovial grin and heartily clink pint glasses>
Aussie: "Hahaha, yeah, good one mate, we're sending your boys packing back to Pommyland just like we always do"
Pom: *Sniff*
Pom: "I mean it, why aren't there more clouds in your sky! It's unnatural and my pasty skin can't handle your fucking sun!"
Aussie: "Or perhaps you should just fuck off back to cold old Pommyland you whinging pommy bastard"
<Pair share jovial grin and heartily clink pint glasses>
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