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...undertook to keep chariots from parking along a main highway. ROYAL ROAD, LET NO MAN DECREASE IT, said the no-parking sign, and any man who decreased the road was soon deceased. Ancient Rome banned all women from driving chariots, and decreed that no one could drive near the Colosseum during the gladiator-baiting. Europe's early roads charged stiff tolls to pay for improvements, such as sufficient widening "to let a man pass with a dead corpse on a cart." The Romans, using heavy stones in layers, built a 50,000-mi. network of roads that wound through...
...town. Bang-bang, she has fired her twin pistols, whose small round muzzles protrude from her brassiere like iron nipples. As the Chinese slumps, Ursula coolly bends her head to blow the smoke away. Then off she goes in hot pursuit across New York, around Rome's Colosseum and Ostia beach to get her tenth victim, none other than Marcello Mastroianni...
...elsewhere to support Elvis Presley in this contest." Explained Mayor William B. Ingram Jr., "More than any other person, Elvis has carried abroad with him a fine reputation for Memphis. I hope some day we find an appropriate means of recognizing him, such as naming the new city colosseum...
...Cuba. But most of them probably originated no farther distant than "Little Havana" in southwestern Miami. Using code names such as "Tiger," "Corsair," and "Alpha Five," they beamed a 24-hour torrent of chatter, reading off metronome-like numbers in Spanish and repeating cryptic messages: "Caesar is approaching the Colosseum," "The little tree is in the middle of the pasture." More than once, Castro stations broke in angrily. Cried one Castroite at the microphone: "You have no guts to come here, son of a whore! You only know how to kill children. Effeminates! Tell me where...
From Lions to Titans. Elevators of a sort were around long before Elisha Otis. Crude elevators run by manpower lifted stones for Cheops' pyramid in 2900 B.C., later carried gladiators and lions to the arena level of Rome's Colosseum. There were even steam-powered elevators operating several years before Otis developed his, but Otis worked out a system of springs and ratchets that prevented elevators from falling when hoisting ropes broke. He thus set off a revolution in construction...