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Posted: Thu Aug 09, 2007 2:17 am

Rennie`

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o.k, you do that, but i'm sure it was an asp that over all suposedly killed them, i think it says that in my egyptian encyclopedia

I read it last night, it definatly says cobra.

Actually technically you are both right. The Asp generally is considered to be referring to the Egyptian cobra.

"Asp is the modern/anglicized form of aspis. In antiquity the name refers to a venomous snake of Egypt from the Nile delta region and generally assumed to refer to the Egyptian cobra, but a wide array of other snakes were called asps."
-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asp_(reptile) smile

Posted: Thu Aug 09, 2007 5:08 am

sweet! thanks for solving that problem!

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Posted: Thu Aug 23, 2007 3:30 pm

|WhAt a wOndeRFul WorLd|

sabretoothlioness ; Actually, she wasn't even Greek. Sure, she lived in Greece, but she was Malaysian. xP & Not only was she married to her brother at one stage, but she was also going to be Queen of the Roman Empire.
<3 I love Cleopatra.

& tomb_raider_babe ; sorry to burst your bubble ... but, I think a conspiracy book on Cleo has already been written... like 20 times. xD

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Posted: Wed Sep 05, 2007 6:56 pm

this isnt your information, i saw this special on discovery channel stare

it is quite possible that she was murderd. octavian needed her son to be murderd in order to fully claim the throne. since cleopatra wouldnt give him that information ( of course she is protecting her son)

she was then no use to octavian, so she could of been murderd. though the whole suicide sounds dramatic, and it most likely was a cover up for her name, because the romans wanted to parade her around after having her.

but then again who knows! i wasnt around in those times domokun