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History
Centuries of Italian History Are Unearthed in Quest to Fix Toilet
“I said, ‘Come, I need your help, and it will only be a week,’ ” Mr. Faggiano recalled.
But one week quickly passed, as father and sons discovered a false floor that led down to another floor of medieval stone, which led to a tomb of the Messapians, who lived in the region centuries before the birth of Jesus. Soon, the family discovered a chamber used to store grain by the ancient Romans, and the basement of a Franciscan convent where nuns had once prepared the bodies of the dead.
The secret madness of Adolf Hitler
Fascinating view into the effects of Hitler being blinded by poison gas in World War I and how it impacted his mental state during World War II. I hadn’t realized just how decrepit he had become at the end of the war.
Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire
A great companion while reading Roman history.
H G Wells: “It seems to me that I am more to the Left than you, Mr Stalin”
In 1934, Wells arrived in Moscow to meet a group of Soviet writers. While there Stalin granted him an interview.
The Origin of the Word “Palace”
With the Second Triumvirate and Octavian’s growing domination of the political scene, a gradual change could be detected. Politics moved from the noisy open square up to a complex of houses on the fashionable Palatine Hill, where Octavian and Livia lived and worked. From “Palatine” derives the word “palace,” meaning that enclosed space where autocrats make decisions in private.
Anthony Everitt in Augustus: The Life of Rome’s First Emperor
Fascinating.