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The Roman Empire in the 3rd and 4th Centuries began using mercenary troops from among the barbarians, when full-blooded Romans were running short. That was artificial insemination of their armies, of a sort. And it wasn't long after taking in these "ghost" warriors that Rome was a...
Travail of a Prince. In their trouble they turned where they would have turned in the Middle Ages: to the local overlords, the Massimo family. Its present representative is curly-headed, witty young Prince Vittorio Massimo. When Hannibal wiped out the Roman armies in Apulia at the Battle of Cannae...
The ancient Romans had an imaginative treatment for alcoholics: a live eel in a cup of wine. Forced to drink this lively cocktail, the tippler would presumably be disgusted by all future potations. Modern doctors are still using a variation of this old cure. Latest results on a remarkably large...
"Beau" Nash, a sort of combination of Elsa Maxwell and Ward McAllister in his day, "made" Bath. In 1705 he found the town squalid and cramped, the famous mineral baths (started by the Romans) badly run. Worst of all, there was no place for the fashionable to dance except the...
Some Romans laughed at this old joke last week. But buxom, 19-year-old Annamarie Proietti was too angry to smile. Annamarie is a waitress from Rome's Communist-filled slums who last week slipped off to swarming, breezy Ostia for an afternoon on the beach with her boy...