Riddle of Colossal flooding solved
How Rome relived sea battles
by Shan Ross
THE mystery of the flooded amphitheatre has puzzled historians and scientists
for almost 2000 years. But now an Edinburgh engineer has come up with a theory
for how Emperor Titus flooded the Colosseum in Rome at its opening in 80AD.....
The highlight of the 100-day inauguration was a series of naval battles
re-enacted in the Colosseum, according to Cassius Dio, chronicler of ancient
Rome, who said: "Titus suddenly filled this same theatre with water and brought
in horses and bulls and other domesticated animals that had been taught to
behave in the liquid element just as on land. He also brought in people on
ships, who engaged in a sea-fight there, impersonating the Corcyreans and
Corinthians."

Find out how, he
http://www.theherald.co.uk/news/arch...03-0-9-34.html


k30a

I belive that I saw something like this on the history channel not to long
ago.....

D.S.


"K30a" wrote in message
...
Riddle of Colossal flooding solved
How Rome relived sea battles
by Shan Ross
THE mystery of the flooded amphitheatre has puzzled historians and
scientists
for almost 2000 years. But now an Edinburgh engineer has come up with a
theory
for how Emperor Titus flooded the Colosseum in Rome at its opening in
80AD.....
The highlight of the 100-day inauguration was a series of naval battles
re-enacted in the Colosseum, according to Cassius Dio, chronicler of
ancient
Rome, who said: "Titus suddenly filled this same theatre with water and
brought
in horses and bulls and other domesticated animals that had been taught to
behave in the liquid element just as on land. He also brought in people on
ships, who engaged in a sea-fight there, impersonating the Corcyreans and
Corinthians."

Find out how, he
http://www.theherald.co.uk/news/arch...03-0-9-34.html


k30a

K30a wrote:
Riddle of Colossal flooding solved
How Rome relived sea battles
by Shan Ross
THE mystery of the flooded amphitheatre has puzzled historians and scientists
for almost 2000 years. But now an Edinburgh engineer has come up with a theory
for how Emperor Titus flooded the Colosseum in Rome at its opening in 80AD.....
The highlight of the 100-day inauguration was a series of naval battles
re-enacted in the Colosseum, according to Cassius Dio, chronicler of ancient
Rome, who said: "Titus suddenly filled this same theatre with water and brought
in horses and bulls and other domesticated animals that had been taught to
behave in the liquid element just as on land. He also brought in people on
ships, who engaged in a sea-fight there, impersonating the Corcyreans and
Corinthians."

Find out how, he
http://www.theherald.co.uk/news/arch...03-0-9-34.html


k30a


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and if he had only liked Koi ---------




John Rutz
Z5 New Mexico

good judgement comes from bad experience, and that comes from bad
judgement

see my pond at:

http://www.fuerjefe.com

K30a wrote:
Riddle of Colossal flooding solved
How Rome relived sea battles
by Shan Ross
THE mystery of the flooded amphitheatre has puzzled historians and scientists
for almost 2000 years. But now an Edinburgh engineer has come up with a theory
for how Emperor Titus flooded the Colosseum in Rome at its opening in 80AD.....
The highlight of the 100-day inauguration was a series of naval battles
re-enacted in the Colosseum, according to Cassius Dio, chronicler of ancient
Rome, who said: "Titus suddenly filled this same theatre with water and brought
in horses and bulls and other domesticated animals that had been taught to
behave in the liquid element just as on land. He also brought in people on
ships, who engaged in a sea-fight there, impersonating the Corcyreans and
Corinthians."

Find out how, he
http://www.theherald.co.uk/news/arch...03-0-9-34.html


k30a


--
and if he had only liked Koi ---------




John Rutz
Z5 New Mexico

good judgement comes from bad experience, and that comes from bad
judgement

see my pond at:

http://www.fuerjefe.com

4 million gallons in seven hours .............. now that's a
waterfall!
"K30a" wrote in message
...
Riddle of Colossal flooding solved
How Rome relived sea battles
by Shan Ross
THE mystery of the flooded amphitheatre has puzzled historians and
scientists
for almost 2000 years. But now an Edinburgh engineer has come up with
a theory
for how Emperor Titus flooded the Colosseum in Rome at its opening in
80AD.....
The highlight of the 100-day inauguration was a series of naval
battles
re-enacted in the Colosseum, according to Cassius Dio, chronicler of
ancient
Rome, who said: "Titus suddenly filled this same theatre with water
and brought
in horses and bulls and other domesticated animals that had been
taught to
behave in the liquid element just as on land. He also brought in
people on
ships, who engaged in a sea-fight there, impersonating the Corcyreans
and
Corinthians."

Find out how, he
http://www.theherald.co.uk/news/arch...03-0-9-34.html


k30a

"Hank Pagel" wrote:
4 million gallons in seven hours .............. now that's a
waterfall!


Actually, for the time, it was fantastic.

Today, however, technology permits vastly more water to be pumped. Here in
New Orleans, a city below the level of the sea and the river, we have 90
miles of canals that collect the water (ground water and rain water) and
carry it to 22 pumping stations where it's pumped into Lake Pontchartrain
and the Mississippi River (see
http://www.swbnola.org/Resources/drain_info.htm ). Here's the info about the
current capacity:

"The system's pumping capacity is over 29 billion gallons a day, enough to
empty a lake 10 square miles by 13.5 feet deep every 24 hours. That flow
rate (over 45,000 cubic feet per second) is more than the flow rate of the
Ohio River, the nation's fifth largest river."


Michael Fermanis
New Orleans, Louisiana USA (Remove the RICE to reply)
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