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Did Rome really build pipes to funnel wine to Cologne? The Kaiserchronik states: "From Trier, an old fortified city that adorned Roman authority, the Romans sent wine a long distance under the earth in stone pipes to please all the lords who settled around Cologne. Great was the Romans' might!"

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