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...Like Gaul, Harvard is divided three ways into the graduate schools and laboratories the Yard (not campus, please), and the Houses. The Yard, birthplace of the College, lies between Cambridge Street and Massachusetts Avenue and contains what are called Freshman Halls, the bulk of the classrooms, and administration buildings. To the north is the graduate's empire, to the south are the hairs of the upperclassmen, and across the river the Business School, Stadium, and athletic fields...
...ships of the imperial squadron were heading for the Adriatic port of Brundisium (Brindisi). The largest ship carried vast purple sails; its prow bore a golden lion's head. Lounging in a tent beneath the ornamented rigging was Augustus Octavian Caesar, Emperor of Italy, Gaul and the lands of the Nile. Lying on a pallet in the next ship was the Roman poet Virgil, coughing 'blood and clutching the manuscript of his unfinished masterpiece, The Aeneid...
...Roman State-owned mines ran out. As the old freehold farming class lost its lands to the big owners of the latifundia, the productivity of the soil decreased. The State dole of grain brought men into the cities to join the workless proletariat, and the spoil of Spain, Gaul, Syria and Egypt made Romans think less and less about making fortunes through honest labor...
...less than nine miles away. The naval base at Toulon, with the tragic wreck of the French fleet rusting in its harbor, was under attack. Avignon, home of the Popes for 76 years, would soon feel the hot breath of war. Aix, heart of Provence, oldest Roman town in Gaul, was directly in the path of the pelting Allied army. The fourth front in Europe was proceeding not according to plan, but better...