Story - Roman Legionnaires travel through time and start our history

I originally read this story in German, but I'm pretty sure it is a translation from English. I have read it at around 2010, but the story was in a book already being older. I got it from a sale at a small price. I can remember some heavy wear on the book, so it might be from 2005 or earlier.
Please help me identify it, as I want to give it to a friend. Unfortunately, I can only remember some of the details.

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In an alternate timeline Jesus was not betrayed by Judas, leading to him becoming emperor of the Roman Empire. The empire grows to great strength and a high technology level.

At the beginning of the story the empire is at a constant war with an American civilization, perhaps based on the Aztec or Mayan cultures. The European civilization never explored the American continents until the native civilization had grown too strong to conquer.

It is about a group of time travellers who are hit mid-travel and fall out of their travel at the time and near of Jesus workings (which they only find out after about one quarter of the story).

Thanks to some stolen uniforms and a matter-transformator they get into a nearby town and establish a base of operation. After some character development, tragedy, and so on they decide to visit Jesus. I don't know exactly what happens next, but in the end they are accused as wizards (because they made perfect copies of a coin when they arrived), some die and they decide to split up.

One of them is really disillusioned of what the future made of the Jesus he met, so he decides to change the timeline. He counts the silver coins remaining in his pockets and finds that he has 30 of them. He sees a guy leaving a house and approaches him with the words "You must be Judas, right?" (Story ends)

production - Why are there typically no more than 24 episodes in a TV Season?

There are 52 weeks in a year.
American TV series usually go from the end of September to May, about 34-35 weeks.

Before the late 1960s, a television season was closer to about 30 episodes in the United States.[Wikipedia] [Version]

Most shows go on hiatus over the winter holidays and thanksgiving, due to lower viewership. Events such as the president of the United States giving a speech, also usually means that there will be no new television that night. In the 2012-2013 year, there were 3 presidential debates and election night, so there was no new television for any of those nights. Some episodes end up not being shown on the originally-planned day because of being pre-empted by athletics games. There are some series that have 2-hour specials which cut into other shows at certain points in the season.

In order to have time to air all the episodes produced, the networks generally order seasons of 22-26 episodes.

lord of the rings - Why didn't Gollum kill Frodo and Sam?

To begin with, Gollum does not know Frodo and Sam are trying to destroy the Ring, only that they want to enter Mordor. In fact he reacts very angrily when he learns they want to destroy his Precious. In the film, Frodo tells him just outside Shelob's lair; in the books, Gollum doesn't work it out until he attacks them on the slopes of Mount Doom itself:

"Wicked masster!" it hissed. "Wicked masster cheats us; cheats
Smeagol, gollum. He musstn't go that way. He musstn't hurt Precious.
Give it to Smeagol, yess, give it to us! Give it to uss!" [Return of
the King, Book 6, Chapter 3, "Mount Doom"]

To answer your main question, Frodo and Sam do not trust Gollum. In the books they take it in turns to sleep, with one remaining awake to watch:

"Look here!" Sam whispered to Frodo, not too softly; he did not really
care whether Gollum heard him or not. "We've got to get some sleep;
but not both together with that hungry villain nigh, promise or no
promise." [The Two Towers, Book 4, Chapter 2, "The Passage of the Marshes"]

If Gollum attacked the hobbit on guard, he would wake the other; and Gollum is not strong enough to defeat both the hobbits at once, especially since they are armed and he is not. This is hinted at in the films as well, along with the fact that Frodo hardly sleeps at all.

Finally, it is suggested that possession of the Ring gives Frodo a power to command Smeagol/Gollum:

For a moment it appeared to Sam that his master had grown and Gollum
had shrunk; a tall stern shadow, a mighty lord who hid his brightness
in grey cloud, and at his feet a little whining dog. Yet the two were
in some way akin and not alien; they could reach one another's minds.
[The Two Towers, Book 4, Chapter 1, "The Taming of Smeagol"]

As Frodo says in the film, "The Ring is treacherous. It will hold you to your word." Of course, Gollum himself is treacherous and will take any opportunity to seize the Ring for himself, but he still finds it difficult to defy Frodo.

synonyms - Is there a single word for a document containing an individual's contact information?

I'm looking for a single noun to indicate a document (or web page) that contains a person's contact information (phone, email, etc.).

The context is a navigation element on a personal website, for example:

Home | Bio | Contact Page

I want to substitute the text "Contact Page" with the word I'm seeking.

Archaic, formal or loaned words are perfectly acceptable, even desired. The tone of the website is humorous.

A word that has a metaphorically connected meaning (similar to the way "Home" is understood to mean "The Home Page"), though less desirable, is still acceptable.

How do you measure magical ability in the Harry Potter series?

As far as I am aware, at no point in the books is a method of measuring the amount of magical power a wizard has ever mentioned. I found an interesting source after a Google search which has an interesting take on the matter:

The most accomplished wizards in the Potterverse are often described as elderly or hard-working. Voldemort began his reign of terror by the age of 40, but he had spent the previous twenty years working harder than anyone to become powerful. Horace Slughorn was already a teacher at Hogwarts in the late Thirties (and perhaps before), and he is described as an extremely able wizard who evaded Voldemort for one year (HBP4). Dumbledore is 150 years old and has spent most of his life studying. These wizards are powerful because they refined their abilities and amassed an extensive knowledge of magic, and because they had a lot of time to do it.

~http://www.hp-lexicon.org/essays/essay-magical-power.html

Thinking about it, I would agree that instead of differing amount of raw power possessed by individual wizards, the thing that differentiates the different levels of ability is being dedicated to improving and having a quick mind to respond to situations (such as in a duel, where fast - thinking is critical). Whether everyone has the ability to use all their magic power (for example, if they are mentally disabled) is a different matter.

If the amount of raw power differed from wizard to wizard, it would seem likely that pure bloods would be far more powerful than half-bloods or especially Muggle-borns. Hermione is often described as being "the best witch in the year", so this seems unlikely.

Like Muggle exams, OWLS and NEWTS are qualifications, and someone who is not very good at magic, but studied hard, would probably do better than a talented one that was complacent and did no revision.

Why did Natalie Teager get a different job in "Mr. Monk and the Badge"?

According to Wikipedia, in this episode (based on the book Mr. Monk and the Blue Flu), it wasn't that Monk did not require her services so much as, perhaps feeling that she was no longer needed, she "reveals that she has an interview for a glamorous job with a concert promoter." Mr. Monk warns her that her new boss will not be as good as he was. In the end, she misses the excitement of working with him, and she returns to her job as he relinquishes his badge.

In the dialogue at the end, they disagree about whether she quit or was let go:

Monk: I pay $900 a week.

Natalie: I am not taking a pay cut, Mr. Monk!

Monk: Then you shouldn't have quit.

Natalie: I didn't quit, you let me go. Oh, God, you make me mad!

This episode was directed by Dean Parisot, whose only other episode was the pilot.

Interestingly, in the book, Natalie does not leave when Monk gets his badge back (which he only gets temporarily because he is operating as a scab during an unofficial police strike - "blue flu"), but continues working with him at his job. In the television series, they were trying to wrap up a lot of loose ends as the series came to an end, and one of those loose ends was Adrian getting his badge back. But once he had it back, he decides it is not for him. That storyline naturally had to consider what would happen to Natalie if Monk went back to regular work.

la jetee - In "La jetée" does the time-traveler's body stay in the present time?

The film La jetée - famous for inspiring 12 Monkeys - appears to feature a method of time travel that is more psychological than mechanical. There is no time machine. Instead, a man who is known for having a strong memory is given an injection. Then the movie cuts back-and-forth between scenes of the man in the past, in the future, and writhing on a cot in the present, under the influence of the injection:

Am I understanding the method of time travel in La jetée accurately? Does the time travel all occur within the time-traveler's mind, meaning his body never leaves the present?

My interpretation for La jetée is that the man is not actually time-traveling. Instead, the injection (and whatever other treatment) he is given sends him deep into his mind and his memory, allowing him to mentally re-visit the world he grew up in vividly enough to deliver to the scientists the information they need from the past. Similarly, the injection enables the man to anticipate the future and again get the information the scientists need.*

Here's link to Spanish-language-dubbed version of La jetée. Starting at about 9:00, you can see how the "time travel" seems to consist of the man writhing on his bed. The narrator says something like "After 10 days, scenes began to come through."

(At the end of La jetée, the man realizes the scientists are going to execute him. He asks to be sent back to the past, and appears to be killed while he is "in" the past. My interpretation is the scientists were kind enough to first give him one last injection before executing him while he was under the influence - so in his mind, he felt like he was dying in the past.)