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Was there actually a time when convicts would be given the choice between prison and military service?
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Bored Historians: When did people stop having lice, fleas, bedbugs, etc, as a default setting? How did we stop being infested?
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How did most people in cities like Rome in antiquity learn about "the news"? Who told them which war was won, what the emperor was up to and things like that?
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The Constitution is the highest law in the land. Most countries, if not all, have one. How far back does the idea of a "list of rules" rank higher than any president or ruler?
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During the Catiline conspiracy Cicero successfully advocated for the execution without trial of captured conspirators,despite their legal rights as roman citizens to a trial. Are we aware how he publicly and personally reconciled this with his political position as a staunch constitutionalist ?
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