July 31, 2009
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Excerpts from a piece in the Times of London: The bustling harbour of Altinum near Venice was one of the richest cities of the Roman empire. But terrified by the impending invasion of the fearsome Germanic Emperor Attila the Hun, its inhabitants cut their losses and fled in AD452, leaving behind a ghost town of…
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pridie kalendas sextiles 1556 — death of Ignatius of Loyola
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