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With the foreign-tourist season nearing an end, Italians themselves were vacationing. On a single August weekend, more than 1,000,000 Romans had deserted the Eternal City, Milan had been depopulated by 700,000, and Turin by 350,000. And as they lolled on beaches or hiked up mountain...
>CLOTHES. Around 1000 B.C. the nomads of Central Asia found that their simple cloth or hide wraps were uncomfortable on horseback; so they invented trousers. Trousers were so closely associated with barbarians that when some Romans began sporting them an imperial edict was issued against their use. As late as...
The greatest beauty aid of all-soap -was an invention of the barbarian Gauls, who made it from goat's tallow and beech ashes. Though the Greeks and Romans praised cleanliness, neither used soap. As late as 1853, British Chancellor of the Exchequer Gladstone condemned soap as "most injurious...
Forced to rely more on imagination than on eyewitness accounts, artists of subsequent ages customarily pictured Jesus stretched on a crux sublimis, towering high above the earth, which the Romans reserved exclusively for illustrious victims. An obscure carpenter from Nazareth, contends Bréhant, would have rated nothing more than...
* So called by the Romans, who believed that caniculares dies resulted when the bright Dog Star, Sirius, rising at dawn, added its heat to the sun's. In popular folklore, dogs are supposed to be especially prone to madness at this season.