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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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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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Is Agapito Flores worthy of any credit for "inventing" fluorescent lamps even though there were earlier inventors of fluorescent lamps?
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I have been pondering historical instances of wealth inequality and its consequences. Can anyone help me understand how it has been corrected in the past? How often has revolution been been the method to readjust extremely unequal distribution of capital?
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