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c. 160 A.D. — martyrdom of Pudentiana 175 A.D. — Commodus departs for Germany 307 A.D. — martyrdom of Cyriaca and companions at Nicomedia 1795 — death of James Boswell, author of Life of Dr. Johnson

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Grafissimo/Getty David M. Pritchard, The University of Queensland During their high-stakes meeting in Beijing this week, Chinese President Xi Jinping reportedly asked US President Donald Trump if the two countries could overcome the “Thucydides trap”. This phrase, popularised by contemporary US political scientist Graham Allison in the early 2010s, is used to describe how two…

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