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246, 218 and 149 BC, Three wars in which Carthage, a trading and military superpower supposedly unmatched in the Mediterranean, was defeated by Rome One Question: How? Carthage was founded in 814BC in modern day Tunisia and quickly turned to the oceans. Building fleets bigger and better than anything the Greeks had yet thought of to protect their huge trade around the world. Including in what would become "the Americas" Rome was a military machine from start to finish that relentlessly expanded in Italy against the waning power of the Greek city states. Until its hunger would force it to the Mediterranean In 264BC the ancient world's two

As we take each others hands, As we spin in a circle, laughing, As our voices are heard across the lands, As our friendships are rebuffing, We're going down, Going down, going down, Break down, spin around, Falling down, falling down, Tonight we rule this town, Today, We are here to stay, Tonight, We will win this fight, Hear the howl of the wind, See the fury of the sun, As opposition is thinned, Purity, when we are done, Going down, going down, Break down, spin around, Falling down, falling down, Tonight we rule this town, Freaking out, freaking out, With doubt, without a doubt, Going down, going down, We all go dow

I see you In a dark alley, bellow the shining night lights Or is it a dream that haunts me... I see you everyday, yet I don't know who you are, A metal woman made of steel or titanium? A monster made up of just my emotion? Who are you? I hold your hand everyday, don't you remember? Oh metal woman of my dreams, my emotions, MY SOUL. "Remember me."

The long silent and majestic shore like a snake is slithering off through the night as far as the eye can see. The tranquil sea stays unchanged in the blissful wind as if held by the night itself. Sudden rushes of wind stir the sea in to primordial anger. It strikes the shore like lightening. The crescent moon shaped shore bravely stands against the relentless assault of the furious sea. As the cold-hearted sea batters the brittle rock, they shatter into shards of opaque glass. The white horses trample the defenceless shoreline, rampaging though the sandy wastelands. The parasols, changed by the night, they stand as watchtowers warding off th

Here am I, here I stand, On the top, of a ten story building, No one is below to catch me, no one is below to care, To stop me from the visions of my impending fall, Jump, jump, The dark passenger in my head tells me, It seems to be the only thing that cares, Even if it is not real, The sky is falling down on me, It's raining roses with withered petals, Maybe I'm meant to see, Maybe my heart is made of precious metals, because I can't feel, These walls around me are silent as the dead, But I hear the voices and they tell me to fall, Jumping to my fall, Risking to lose it all, If I jump, I will piece it all together, The broke

First they went back the mansion to give the Avatars an order that to any normal soldier would be a death sentence just as the sun began to sink down behind the hills giving a backdrop of deep red orange. Foreshadowing the possibility of a burning sky. Carador landed in the centre of the forest outside the gate of the vine-covered mansion. The brothers looked sullen though Ozai more so than Afracarnus. Afracarnus raised his hand beckoning his trusted captain to him, "Nimokash we are going to Gibraltar to open the Babylon gate. Under no circumstances are you to leave this mansion you must defend it until we return," Ozai spoke quickly, "if w

cold and empty all alone this what you have become. no more love no more joy all that's left is pain and sorrow but just for us there will be more people who will have love and joy in this house but not for me i will move on and find more joy in some where new or you will be re-born with new love and joy for me what was is now lost may re-turn

When they reached the mansion the Avatars were there waiting for them. "Ozai!" shouted Nimokash in disbelief, "kill him," "No! We need him!" bellowed Afracarnus, he gave his brother a threatening glance, "for now," the Avatars reluctantly lowered their blades as did Ozai and Selena. Kareen and Kara walked out the mansion with Xiao, they looked on in surprise at Ozai and Selena surrounded by Avatars and not yet dead. "What are they doing here?" exclaimed Kara, "Hello sis," replied Selena, "Kareen my old friend, long time so see," she mocked, "Everybody quiet!" ordered Afracarnus; silence fell throughout the forest. He turned to Ozai, "tel

The daemons were everywhere. Running around, climbing, doing God knows what. In the midst of them was my friend, my friend Ashley, I would kill her today, kill her because I cared. The gun was shaking in my hands, "Why the fuck would I do this?!" I had no time to think, I would've already killed her if it wasn't for that look on her face. Save me. Her face was white, almost inhumanly white, I couldn't kill her. She was still young and we could have solved the problem, but to her this was the only way. Her fearful face began to turn into that of a angry face and later into tears. She cried and cried, the daemons laughing as she did. "Take t

It has been almost ten years since my encounter with the Black Shadows. Some among you who know that story may have seen it as a victory, but I do not count it as such. The loss of my brother still pains me as much as it did then. I know that I should not complain with someone as beautiful as Aurelia by my side but I fear that my constant reminiscence of my brother has forced her love for me to waver, if but a little. I cannot lose her now, after everything we have been through. Without my brothers, she is everything to me. I love her and could never bring myself to let her go, for if I did, I think that, my world would simply come crashing d