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  • One Roman parody of fishing involved a type of gladiator called the retiarius who was armed with a trident and a casting-net. He would fight ...
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  • Rome ( roʊm ; Roma , ˈroma ; Roma ) is the capital city of Italy and of the Lazio region, and is Italy's largest and most populous city. ...
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  • Neuroscience is an interdisciplinary field in science that is organized around the study of the nervous system. As such, the field encompasses ...
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  • Libya," describing the crash of his Gloster Gladiator. C. S. Forester had asked Dahl to write down some RAF anecdotes so that he could shape them ...
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  • Danner was the main character of the 1930 novel Gladiator by Philip Wylie, and is possessed of same powers of the early Superman.Gregory Feeley, Science ...
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  • Tiridates I was King of Armenia beginning in 53 C.E. and the founder of the Arshakuni Dynasty which ruled until 428. The dates of his birth and ...
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  • of the central figure of Encolpius, a former gladiator, Lazarillo de Tormes, The life of Lazarillo de Tormes: his fortunes and adversities trans ...
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  • The tiger (Panthera tigris) is a mammal of the Felidae family and one of the four species of "big cats" (subfamily Pantherinae) in ...
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  • Human sacrifice is the act of killing human beings as part of a religious ritual. It has been practiced in many cultures throughout much of history ...
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  • * Spartacus, a gladiator-slave who became the leader in the unsuccessful slave uprising against the Roman Republic known as the Third Servile War. ...
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  • Tiberius Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus (August 1, 10 B.C.E. – October 13, 54) (Tiberius Claudius Drusus Nero Germanicus before his accession ...
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  • The "Roman Empire" (Imperium Romanum) is used to denote that part of the world under Roman rule from approximately 44 B.C.E. until ...
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  • lions were kept by emperors to take part in the gladiator arenas. Roman notables, including Sulla, Pompey, and Julius Caesar, often ordered the mass ...
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