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Post by Pugnox on Dec 4, 2003 18:50:37 GMT -5
Mine, I think, is obvious...
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Post by AWAR on Dec 4, 2003 18:58:33 GMT -5
My screen name is from Tolkien: dark elf.
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Post by AWAR on Dec 4, 2003 18:59:16 GMT -5
Mine, I think, is obvious... Not obvious to me. |
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Post by Pugnox on Dec 4, 2003 19:17:05 GMT -5
O.K. then, "Pugnox", like making a proper name from the Latin, "pugnator": a fighter. The adjective is "pugnax" which is "combative". Comes into English in words like "pugnacious."
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Post by Melnorme on Dec 5, 2003 1:01:37 GMT -5
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Post by TSUNTZU on Dec 5, 2003 1:07:45 GMT -5
TSUNTZU wrote the ART OF WAR.
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Post by LuvSpune on Dec 5, 2003 13:42:42 GMT -5
A love spoon is a humorous Welsh trinket, I corrupted it
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Post by alex221166 on Dec 5, 2003 13:46:01 GMT -5
"alex" is the diminutive of my original name "Alexandre". That's what most of my friends call me.
"alex221166" was "born" when I needed to find some screen name to play Age of Kings in the multiplayer mode. "221166" were the first random keys I pressed, and I kept using it from then on.
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Post by galvez on Dec 5, 2003 15:49:24 GMT -5
"Galvez" is the last name of a Spanish colonel and, if I remember correctly, governor of Louisiana in the late 18th-century. Because Spain was at odds with Britain, Spain offered help to the American colonists -- and Galvez, if I recall correctly, gave supplies and attacked the British, helping the American colonists in their struggle against the British.
I can't say how crucial his help was but there is a book on Amazon.com about his role in the Revolutionary War.
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Post by Kukul-Kan on Dec 5, 2003 16:01:01 GMT -5
"Galvez" is the last name of a Spanish colonel and, if I remember correctly, governor of Louisiana in the late 18th-century. Because Spain was at odds with Britain, Spain offered help to the American colonists -- and Galvez, if I recall correctly, gave supplies and attacked the British, helping the American colonists in their struggle against the British. I can't say how crucial his help was but there is a book on Amazon.com about his role in the Revolutionary War. Yeah, that’s why the English helped the American colonies fight against Spain. Tthe first Commander of the Mexican navy was even an Englishman who had fought in the Mexican side. |
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Post by Artemisia on Dec 5, 2003 16:04:26 GMT -5
"Artemisia" was the name of two Carian queens. One was the daughter of Lygdamis of Halicarnassus, the other the wife and sister of Mausollus. She built the Mausolleum in memory of her husband/brother and mixed his ashes with her wine every day and consumed the mixture until the day she herself died! What a hair-raising experience!   |
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Post by Kukul-Kan on Dec 5, 2003 16:19:03 GMT -5
By the way, the heart of Bernardo de Gálvez is in the Cathedral of Mexico City.
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Post by LuvSpune on Dec 6, 2003 2:29:13 GMT -5
"Galvez" is the last name of a Spanish colonel and, if I remember correctly, governor of Louisiana in the late 18th-century. Because Spain was at odds with Britain, Spain offered help to the American colonists -- and Galvez, if I recall correctly, gave supplies and attacked the British, helping the American colonists in their struggle against the British. I can't say how crucial his help was but there is a book on Amazon.com about his role in the Revolutionary War. he supplied alot of food, especially in the meat areas, you could call him the "handburger helper" of teh revolution |
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Post by Artemidoros on Dec 6, 2003 10:04:56 GMT -5
Artemidoros = Artemis' gift. Artemis and Apollo were the patrons in antiquity of the island I call home. The name Artemidoros (very common in ancient times) stuck in my mind since I read a farewell message on the sarcophagus of an Egyptian Greek I came across in the British Museum. It reads "Artemidoros be brave". A picture of the young man is in A. Kemp's section about Greece, serving as an example of "negroid admixture in Greeks". Never mind there are no nergoid features in the portrait. Never mind the experts believe the young man was not accurately depicted (his face is too long and the artist probably did not go to extreme lengths in order to get his complexion right). Kemp also got the origin of the sarcophagus wrong but that is typical of him.
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Post by Artemidoros on Dec 6, 2003 10:08:55 GMT -5
O.K. then, "Pugnox", like making a proper name from the Latin, "pugnator": a fighter. The adjective is "pugnax" which is "combative". Comes into English in words like "pugnacious." How about your other name, Tom David? Is it your real name? If so then blind and merciless Tyche has played a cruel game on you. Tom is Aramaic and David is Hebrew. If I were you I would change it to something like Adolf Thelittlenazi. -That was an ad-hominem attack, funny, but still ad-hominem and undesirable. Please don't do that anymore. -AWAR |
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