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Rome Mayor Caught in Anti-Semitic Blunder

Rome mayor Gianni Alemanno was forced to cancel a book presentation that was scheduled to take place in city hall next week following an outcry that the presentation was to be given by a convicted neo-Nazi, AFPreported. Franco Freda, who served time in prison for subversive attacks in the 1960s and 1970s, had been scheduled to present a book [...]

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The History Of Italy Author: Hallam, Henry Part II

The sovereignty of the emperors, meanwhile, though not very effective, was in theory always admitted. Their name was used in public acts, and appeared upon the coin. When they came into Italy they had certain customary supplies of provisions, called fodrum regale, at the expense of the city where they resided; during their presence all [...]

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Ovid.

Often alluded to in poetry by his other name of Naso, was born in the year 43 B. C.  He was educated for public life and held some offices of considerable dignity, but poetry was his delight, and he early resolved to devote himself to it.  He accordingly sought the society of the contemporary poets, [...]

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The dream of Macsen Wledig

MACSEN WLEDIG was emperor of Rome, and he was a comelier man, and a better and a wiser than any emperor that had been before him. And one day he held a council of kings, and he said to his friends, “I desire to go to-morrow to hunt.” And the next day in the morning [...]

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Trier

The first Roman target was Trier, which commanded an important road from the Mediterranean to the Rhine. Three armies were threatening the capital of the Trevirans: the two legions that had returned to the Roman side; the Sixth legion Victrix and the First Adiutrix from Spain; and Cerialis’ XXI Rapax from the east. Since Julius [...]

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The Empire Strikes Back

In the Spring of 70, Julius Civilis was at the zenith of his power. Frisians, Cananefates, the Cugernians of Vetera, the Ubians of Cologne, the Tungrians of Tongeren, and the Nervians all recognized the superiority of the Batavians, and in the south, the Lingones and Trevirans were fighting against Rome as well. However, since Civilis [...]

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Police search for baby tossed in Tiber by dad

Police divers are searching the Tiber in Rome for a 16-month-old boy who witnesses said was thrown into the river by his father. Carabinieri police began searching after a witness after dawn Saturday reported seeing a man, standing on a bridge crossing the Tiber, toss a baby into the frigid waters some 30 feet (about [...]

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