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= June 9 =

Love Slaves
In the 1980s I saw an advertisement for a pornographic film called "Love Slaves", with a short description: "An aeroplane-full of white women get sold as sex slaves in the jungle." This is all I know of the film. I have not seen it, merely read about it. I don't know who has produced it and when. Does anyone have more information about this? J I P &#124; Talk 05:32, 9 June 2013 (UTC)
 * Is this it? RNealK (talk) 05:40, 9 June 2013 (UTC)
 * That was one of the first hits when I googled "Love Slaves film", but the plot summary doesn't mention aeroplanes or jungles. It would have helped if I had actually seen this film, but I was a minor when I saw the advertisement. J I P  &#124; Talk 05:45, 9 June 2013 (UTC)

When was 2nd son born to Scottish actor David Tennant
In the box that has the picture of David Tennant it says that David has 1 daughter and 2 sons (1 adopted), when was the 2nd son born. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.1.226.130 (talk) 09:48, 9 June 2013 (UTC)
 * I think whoever put that in the infobox (for that is what it's called) was being a little premature. The Personal Life section says the pregnancy was only announced in January, and I can't find any news stories about a new arrival.  Rojomoke (talk) 10:52, 9 June 2013 (UTC)

Seeking Ancient Greece/Rome time travel novel
Having just finished the marvelous Lest Darkness Fall by L. Sprague de Camp, it continuously reminded me of a similar time-travel novel that I suppose was written sometime between the '70s and the '90s and that I've read during the late '90s. Unfortunately, I've forgotten both title and author.

As much as I remember, other than the fabled Martinus Paduvei from de Camp's story, the time-traveler is not stranded in the past but may rather come and go as he pleases, though I don't remember if he built himself a time-machine or if it's some kind of "natural phenomenon" as in Padway's case. The time and place he keeps visiting is the Roman Province of Achaea sometime between the 1st and 6th century, always the same time and place, with time flowing at the same pace as it does in his native 20th century (i. e., if he spends, say, three weeks at home, the same amount of time has passed when he returns to Achaea).

However, he is taken as a fraud by his contemporaries in our time who refuse to believe him that he can travel back in time. At one point, the current Roman Emperor is visiting Achaea and the time-traveler is even granted a short audience where he takes Polaroids of the Augustus (and I think he also records the voices of a few philosophers at the Platonic Academy, as it's at the advocacy of said philosophers that he is granted the audience). But the people back in our time only ridicule his evidence, asking if he really believes he can convince them that this "funny-looking guy with jug ears that you've put into a toga to dupe us" is really the historical Emperor such-and-such.

This disbelief he meets at home in our time stands in stark contrast with the friendly, but subdued interest he meets in Achae where the philosophers at the Platonic Academy do believe that he is a barbarian from the future, a feat which doesn't seem to surprise them much albeit they're taking a mild, friendly interest. I also remember that a large part of the book consists of debates with the philosophers at the academy about modern science (such as the nature of time and the theory of the Big Bang) and modern philosophy, which for it is that the philosophers take the most interest in this barbarian, as they take these philosophies of future barbarians as a kind of entertaining mind game.

But I think in the end they dismiss the philosophies of future barbarians such as Einstein, Hawking, Hegel, Kant, Schopenhauer, and Nietzsche as too empirical and thus not as fully logical and harmonic as their own Hellenic philosophy, while being impressed by their complexity and pretty cunning logical reasoning ("at least for barbarians known as usually possessing little logos") which, as said, renders them an entertaining mind game for the philosophers. --37.82.174.247 (talk) 19:30, 9 June 2013 (UTC)


 * You might peruse two of the categories to which Lest Darkness Fall belongs: Category:Time travel novels and Category:Alternate history novels set in Ancient Rome, to see if any ring a bell. There's a lot of the former, but only a handful of the latter. -- Finlay McWalterჷTalk 22:07, 9 June 2013 (UTC)
 * Thanks, but I've gone through both categories now, but nothing. --37.82.174.247 (talk) 23:52, 9 June 2013 (UTC)