What do you read about Christmas? Стаття про бокс у Стародавньому Римі In ancient Rome, there were two kinds of boxing and both are derived from Etruscan tradition. Around Rome was a popular folk "box", but also there and gladiatorial combat version. Participants in these fights were mostly criminals and slaves who hoped to win freedom, but sometimes fought free men, aristocrats and even women. Gladiators fought in the original gloves, sometimes with spines. Popularity fisticuffs led to the fact that even emperors started to take part in them, the first of them was Nero. In 393, the Roman emperor Theodosius banned the insistence of the clergy to hold the Olympics because they were considered pagan celebration, and 500 by Theodoric the Great prohibited boxing, a sport that offends God as a symbol of God, a person subjected to shock. However, this decree is not much impact on sporting life cities that were outside of the Eastern Empire. By that time, Western Europe is no longer a part of the Roman Empire, and then boxing remained popular throughout the Middle Ages and later. It should be noted that fighting, fencing and racing chariot never fell under the ban.
We found ourselves short of water at Hambledon Lock; so we took our jar and went up to the lock-keeper’s house to beg for some.George was our spokesman. He put on a winning smile, and said: “Oh, please could you spare us a little water?”“Certainly,” replied the old gentleman; “take as much as you want, and leave the rest.”“Thank you so much,” murmured George, looking about him. “Where – where do you keep it?”“It’s always in the same place my boy,” was the stolid reply: “just behind you.”“I don’t see it,” said George, turning round.“Why, bless us, where’s your eyes?” was the man’s comment, as he twisted George round and pointed up and down the stream. “There’s enough of it to see, ain’t there?”“Oh!” exclaimed George, grasping the idea; “but we can’t drink the river, you know!”“No; but you can drink SOME of it,” replied the old fellow. “It’s what I’ve drunk for the last fifteen years.”George told him that his appearance, after the course, did not seem a sufficiently good advertisement for the brand; and that he would prefer it out of a pump.We got some from a cottage a little higher up. I daresay THAT was only river water, if we had known. But we did not know, so it was all right. What the eye does not see, the stomach does not get upset over.
