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Tag Archives: rome

Aedile

06/29/2014by Pierce Nahigyan Leave a comment

In the dying days of the Republic, Horatius Largus was still shoveling excrement out of roads and paying drunk plebs to pull the same out of sewers. Empires rose and […]

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business, history

Adrianople

12/11/2013by Pierce Nahigyan Leave a comment

The Visigoths poured into the city like blood torn from an artery, a merciless tide overwhelming those who stared. Most Romans had the presence of mind to run but there […]

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history

Actium

06/07/2013by Pierce Nahigyan Leave a comment

The gulls circled over the cape, the waters below red and brown, flotsam dragging men still groaning into shore, armor shining on the shining sea. The gulls landed on the […]

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history, sea

Accept

11/06/2012by Pierce Nahigyan Leave a comment

Max looked up from the latrine ditch, at the city wall. He had some little time to jump back up the shore before the body hit the water, and sent […]

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fear, gods, history

Abatis

01/11/2011by Pierce Nahigyan Leave a comment

Cicero ran his hand over the sharpened barricade. “Those Vandal dogs will sooner see Hell than the inside of our city.” He smiled knowingly at Virgil. Virgil, for his part, […]

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"All the while I have been forgetting the third of my reasons for remaining so faithful a citizen of the Federation, despite all the lascivious inducements from expatriates to follow them beyond the seas, and all the surly suggestions from patriots that I succumb. It is for the reason which grows out of my medieval but unashamed taste for the bizarre and indelicate, my congenital weakness for comedy of the grosser varieties. The United States, to my eye, is incomparably the greatest show on earth."

- H.L. Mencken, On Being an American, 1922

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