The Colosseum had a retractable roof, operated by a crew of sailors, almost 2000 years before any modern stadium.
It was called the velarium: an enormous awning of canvas and rope that could be drawn across the open top of the arena to shade fifty thousand spectators from the Roman sun.
It was so large and so complex that ordinary labourers could not manage it. The Romans brought in sailors from the imperial fleet, men who spent their lives handling rigging and sail, and stationed them at the top of the structure to extend and retract the canvas as the day moved.
A building that has stood, roofless to our eyes, for centuries was in fact designed to be covered.
That is the pattern with the Colosseum: almost everything about it was way more advanced than it looks today...
Construction began around 72 AD under the emperor Vespasian. Once completed, it was the largest amphitheater in the Roman world: an elliptical structure of stone, concrete, and travertine, 189 meters long, rising as high as a modern fifteen story building. It could hold around 50,000 people and the staircases allowed that entire crowd to enter and leave with a speed that modern stadium designers still study.
Beneath the arena floor lay the hypogeum, a hidden labyrinth of tunnels, cells, and machinery. Animals and gladiators waited there in the dark. Numerous trap doors opened in the wooden floor above them, and through hidden lifts and ramps a lion, a leopard, or an armed man could rise into the daylight as if from nowhere, in front of tens of thousands of people.
The Romans knew that they had built something that would outlast them so completely that the Colosseum became, for the people who came after, a measure of the world's own endurance. In the 8th century, an epigram attributed to the Venerable Bede offered a prophecy that has never lost its allure:
"As long as the Colosseum stands, so shall Rome; when the Colosseum falls, Rome shall fall; when Rome falls, so falls the world."
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The only reason chike is striving financially as an artist is because of Nigerian women. This is why it shouldn't shock you that women are supporting his atrocities.
No man first choice of an artist is chike. And since women are the ones calling the shot in how they want their wedding to be since an average Nigerian man is a foolish idiot who allows women dictate to him how to spend his money, this should tell you any musician invited was suggested by the bride.
Chike isn't an international artist which to tell you unlike Davido, Wizkid, Burna Boy, Rema and the likes which are often booked internationally, he relies solely on local gigs in Nigeria.
At the end of the day, if not because the average Nigerian man is a puppet controlled by his wife, Chike should be back in the streets begging for gigs because these women ain't the ones paying chike to perform but rather their husbands.
But trust a Nigerian man to book him for his wedding in less than a month from now because his wife wants chike to perform on her wedding.
Another day to remind you the average Nigerian man is a foolish man.
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The best time to have sex is in the morning.
Here’s why:
-Testosterone (the male sex hormone) is at its highest level between 6am and 9am.
-This gives you stronger, fuller erections and higher natural drive.
-Your energy is fresh after sleep, so you last longer and perform better.
-Morning sex also reduces cortisol (stress hormone) for the rest of the day.
Night sex is good, but morning sex hits different.
Your body is literally built for it.
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