Meat and fish played no part in the diet of Roman Gladiators! They ate a plant-based diet made up largely of pulses, grains, vegetables and fruits. This is confirmed not only from historical documents but also from chemical analysis of the gladiators’ skeletal remains. The gladiators were vegans! Sources: Gladiators – plant-based diet: https://archive.archaeology.org/0811/abstracts/gladiator.html
Watching this video, I felt complete awe, admiration and respect for such extraordinary people. They really are super humans and they don’t inspire you, nothing will!
I just re-watched Steve Jobs wonderful speech at Stanford University in 2005 (below). What is particularly interesting is Steve’s reference to ‘connecting the dots’ in life. We can’t connect the dots forward, they can only be connected looking backward on events. It was ten years AFTER dropping out of College that he discovered why dropping… Continue reading Connecting the dots
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