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Vespasian Birthplace: Roman Emperor's 2000-Year-Old Villa Unearthed Near Cittareale

AP | MARTA FALCONI | Posted 09.07.2009 | World

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ROME — Archaeologists have unearthed a sprawling country villa believed to be the birthplace of Vespasian, the Roman emperor who built the Colos...

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Roman Ship Graveyard Discovered Off Italian Coast

Reuters | Posted 08.23.2009 | World

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Archaeologists scanning the seabed almost 1000 feet below the coast of the Italian island of Ventotene discovered five perfect-condition ancient Roman...

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Turkey: Not the Usual Geopolitical Sandwich

William Bradley | Posted 05.07.2009 | World

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William Bradley

Obama seems to see Turkey, which has friendly relations with Israel, as potentially a much stronger partner than any other NATO nation, perhaps even Britain.

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Are We Rome? Naaah.

Billy Kimball | Posted 11.29.2008 | Politics

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Billy Kimball

It appeals to my vanity to believe, as Maureen Dowd and Sarah Palin do, that we are living in the End of Days; but the facts suggest that the American Century may very well give way to the American Millennium.

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