* The Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum entrance was inspired by the Colosseum.

In the Colosseum, in what had been originally prepared for Gordian III ’ s planned Roman triumph over the Persians, more than 1, 000 gladiators were killed along with hundreds of exotic animals including hippos, leopards, lions, giraffes, and one rhinoceros.

In August 1970, Knighton hosted a rock festival with bands such as The Move and the somewhat more obscure Pete Brown & Piblokto, Roger Bunn, Forever More, Clark-Hutchinson, James Litherland's Brotherhood ( James was originally part of Colosseum ) and Killing Floor.

The Colosseum at Caesars Palace is a 4, 296-seat entertainment venue, originally built for Celine Dion's show A New Day ....

* Emperor Honorius closes the Flavian Amphitheatre ( Colosseum ) in an austerity move that abolishes amusements.

* The walls of Rome's Flavian Amphitheater ( Colosseum ) crack during an earthquake.

When orders are superposed one above another, as they are at the Flavian Amphitheater — the Colosseum — the natural progression is from sturdiest and plainest ( Doric ) at the bottom, to slenderest and richest ( Corinthian ) at the top.

The Flavian Amphitheatre, better known as the Colosseum, was completed during the reign of Titus and inaugurated with spectacular games that lasted for 100 days.

Construction of the Flavian Amphitheatre, presently better known as the Colosseum, was begun in 70 under Vespasian and finally completed in 80 under Titus.

Life in ancient Rome revolved around the city of Rome, its famed seven hills, and its monumental structures such as the Flavian Amphitheatre ( now called the Colosseum ), the Forum of Trajan, and the Pantheon.

A massive building programme was enacted to celebrate the ascent of the Flavian dynasty, leaving multiple enduring landmarks in the city of Rome, the most spectacular of which was the Flavian Amphitheatre, better known as the Colosseum.

* Flavian Amphitheater ( Amphitheatrum Flavium ), the third largest Italian amphitheater after the Colosseum and the Capuan Amphitheater.

* A Flavian Amphitheatre ( Amphitheatrum Flavium ), the third largest Italian amphitheatre after the Colosseum and the Capuan Amphitheatre.

His combat with Priscus was the highlight of the opening day of the games conducted by Titus to inaugurate the Flavian Amphitheatre ( later the Colosseum ) in AD 80, and was recorded in a laudatory poem by Martial — the only detailed description of a gladiatorial fight that has survived to the present day.

* Flavian Amphitheater: Otherwise known as the Colosseum built from 70 to 80 AD.

The building's exterior resembles the Flavian Amphitheatre in Rome ( better known by its later name of the Colosseum ) although in fact the resemblance is to the present rather than original state of the building.

Pictures in old Latin books returned to her: the Appian Way Today, the Colosseum, the Arch of Constantine.

The word battle is a loanword in English from the Old French bataille, first attested in 1297, from Late Latin battualia, meaning " exercise of soldiers and gladiators in fighting and fencing ", from Late Latin ( taken from Germanic ) battuere " beat ", from which the English word battery is also derived via Middle English batri, and comes from the staged battles in the Colosseum in Rome that may have numbered 10, 000 individuals.

The word derives from Latin harena, a particularly fine / smooth sand used to absorb blood in ancient arenas like the Colosseum in Rome.

Shortly after it burned down in 64 CE, Vespasian began its replacement, later known as the Amphitheatrum Flavium ( Colosseum ), which seated 50, 000 spectators and would remain the largest in the Empire.

* The Colosseum ( Amphitheatrum Flavium ) in Rome suffers damage from an earthquake as it did in 422.

In antiquity, Romans may have referred to the Colosseum by the unofficial name Amphitheatrum Caesareum ; this name could have been strictly poetic as it was not exclusive to the Colosseum ; Vespasian and Titus, builders of the Colosseum, also constructed an amphitheater of the same name in Puteoli ( modern Pozzuoli ).

By 1124, there were two great factions dominating local politics in Rome: the Frangipani family, which controlled the region around the fortified Colosseum and supported the northern cardinals, and the Pierleoni family, which controlled the Tiber Island and the fortress of the Theatre of Marcellus and supported the Italian cardinals.

The Colosseum is also depicted on the Italian version of the five-cent euro coin.

An Italian engineer mapping the site ( presumably for a railroad station ) named the city streets of Palermo, Colosseum, Naples, Venice, Genoa, and Vatican.

The most representative building at EUR, and the symbol of this architectural style, is the Palazzo della Civiltà Italiana ( 1938 – 1943 ), an iconic project which has since become known as the " Colosseo Quadrato " ( Square Colosseum ).

Most of the characters maintained their original names but Thomas O ' Malley that was renamed Romeo, Er mejo der Colosseo (" The best of Colosseum " in Romanesco ), and changed its origin from Ireland to Italy.

* Hotel Colosseo ( four star superior ), themed around the Roman Colosseum and features a spectacular fountain show

* " Colosseum Pick " ( 1982 ), published in Funya " ( fanzine )

* " Colosseum Pick " ( 1990 ), published in Comic Fusion Atpas " ( fanzine )

Model of ancient Rome in the Roman Empire | Imperial era, showing the Circus Maximus ( foreground ), the Colosseum ( top of picture ) and between them, the Palatine Hill | Palatine

:: Keen returns to Earth only to find the Vorticon mothership hovering above with its deadly X-14 Tantalus Ray cannons locked on to eight of Earth's greatest landmarks: Big Ben ( London ), the Sphinx ( Cairo ), the Sydney Opera House ( Sydney ), the Statue of Liberty ( New York ), the Eiffel Tower ( Paris ), the Colosseum ( Rome ), St Basil's Cathedral ( Moscow ), and the White House ( Washington D. C .).

An inscription records the restoration of various parts of the Colosseum under Theodosius II and Valentinian III ( reigned 425 – 455 ), possibly to repair damage caused by a major earthquake in 443 ; more work followed in 484 and 508.

He met with Pope Pius X and Abbas II Hilmi Bey ( the last Khedive of Egypt ), and played before 20, 000 people in London including King George V. While in Rome, he was filmed wrestling with another baseball player on the floor of the Colosseum ( although no known copy of that film has survived ).

* Colosseum ( band ), a British progressive jazz-rock band formed in 1968

* Colosseum ( board game ), a board game released by Days of Wonder

It is one of the largest in existence ; the longer diameter is 170 m ( 185 yd ), the shorter 140 m ( 152 yd ), and the arena measures 75 by 45 m ( 83 by 49 yd ), the corresponding dimensions in the Colosseum at Rome being 188, 155, 85, 53 m ( 205, 170, 93 and 58 yd ).

* Rome: View of the Colosseum and the Arch of Constantine ( 1743 ), Royal Collection, Windsor Castle, England

His other documentary credits include narrating A Passion for Faith ( the history of black Catholics in America ), Eyes on the Prize ( dedicated to legendary singer Marian Anderson ), Walking with Dinosaurs, Jesus: The Complete Story, Land of the Mammoth: Ancient Evidence, The Ballad of Big Al, The Science of Big Al, Engineering the Impossible ( The Colosseum ), Greatest Places and Echoes from the White House, God vs. Satan and Jewels of the Rift ( about the life cycles of African cichlid fish in Lake Tanganyika ).

It is often referred to as the masculine order because it is represented in the bottom level of the Colosseum and the Parthenon, and was therefore considered to be able to hold more weight.

It is sometimes called the feminine order because it is on the top level of the Colosseum and holding up the least weight, and also has the slenderest ratio of thickness to height.

* 315 – The Arch of Constantine is completed near the Colosseum at Rome to commemorate Constantine I's victory over Maxentius at the Milvian Bridge.

His reign is best known for financial reforms following the demise of the Julio-Claudian dynasty, the successful campaign against Judaea, and several ambitious construction projects, such as the Colosseum.

* Vespasian starts the building of the Colosseum ; the amphitheatre is used for gladiatorial games and public spectacles, such as sea battles, re-enactments of famous battles, and dramas of Classical mythology.

* Manius Acilius Glabrio is commanded by Domitian to descend into the arena of the Colosseum to fight a lion.

* The Colosseum is badly damaged by fire ( lightning ) which destroys the wooden upper levels of the amphitheater.

< imagemap > File: 1st millennium montage. png | From left, clockwise: Depiction of Jesus, the central figure in Christianity ; The Colosseum, a landmark of the once mighty Roman Empire ; Gunpowder is invented during the latter part of the millennium, in China ; Chess, a new board game, takes on popularity across the globe ; The Roman Empire falls, and then reappears ushering in the Early Middle Ages ; The skeletal remains of a young woman, known as the " ring lady ", killed by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79 ; Attila the Hun, leader of the Hunnic Empire, which takes most of western Europe.

This is the origin of the Arch of Titus and the Arch of Constantine, not far from the Colosseum, or perhaps near a battle site as is the case for the Tropaeum Traiani.

It is said that all in the entire Colosseum audience were converted to Christianity upon witnessing this miracle.

It is said that all in the entire Colosseum audience were converted Christianity upon witnessing this miracle.

* The Colosseum is restored after being damaged.

* Crassus appears in a third season episode of Xena: Warrior Princess, where he is beheaded in the Colosseum.

* July 25 – The Arch of Constantine is completed near the Colosseum at Rome to commemorate Constantine's victory over Maxentius at the Milvian Bridge.

Although in the 21st century it stays partially ruined because of damage caused by devastating earthquakes and stone-robbers, the Colosseum is an iconic symbol of Imperial Rome.

It is one of Rome's most popular tourist attractions and still has close connections with the Roman Catholic Church, as each Good Friday the Pope leads a torchlit " Way of the Cross " procession that starts in the area around the Colosseum.

This name is still used in modern English, but generally the structure is better known as the Colosseum.