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...West they were believed to presage the fall of Jerusalem, the death of monarchs and such anomalies as two-headed calves. The Norman Conquest of England was attributed to the 1066 flyby of Halley's, history's most famous comet, which has been linked to everything from Julius Caesar's assassination to the defeat of Attila the Hun. Told that Earth would pass through Halley's tail during its 1910 visit, many Americans panicked and bought gas masks and "comet pills...
...little over 2,000 years ago, Julius Caesar perished in a brutal stabbing by other members of the Roman Senate. A brief snapshot of the time follows...
Newspapers screamed. The Pompeii Times: "Julius Caesar killed, Millions Mourn." The Roman Globe: "Nation Shocked by Brutal Deed; Best Friend Brutus Implicated as Well." The Empire Enquirer: "Aliens Possess Caesar, Senate Gores Demon to Death...
Television went wacky. "Live at the scene of Julius Caesar's horrible end, this is Marcus Flavius. Today, the nation is shocked by the bloody end to this great leader. You can still see the traces of blood on the floor. Evidently, Caesar was stabbed multiple times until his friend and our virtuous Senator Brutus plunged the knife in the last time...
During his tenure as academic dean, Ellwood helped recruit several star faculty members to the Kennedy School's Wiener Center for Social Policy, including William Julius Wilson, Katherine S. Newman and Christopher S. Jencks '58, a Crimson editor...