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To: SunkenCiv

“You can always count on the cheap seats.”—Harry Chapin


4 posted on 01/24/2015 3:57:56 PM PST by Arm_Bears (Rope. Tree. Politician. Some assembly required.)
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To: Arm_Bears

Seats were cheaper at the wooden stadium over in Fidenae.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fidenae

Stadium disaster

In 27 AD, an apparently cheaply built wooden amphitheatre, constructed by an entrepreneur named Atilius, collapsed in Fidenae resulting in by far the worst stadium disaster in history with as many as 20,000 dead and wounded out of the total audience of 50,000.[5][6]


10 posted on 01/24/2015 4:20:49 PM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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