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To: BenLurkin

Beautiful place - 2000 years ago life was pretty good.


4 posted on 10/09/2017 10:09:48 AM PDT by aquila48
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To: aquila48

Even had his own satellite dish, just off the atrium.

;^)


6 posted on 10/09/2017 10:17:10 AM PDT by elcid1970 ("The Second Amendment is more important than Islam.")
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To: aquila48

Beautiful place - 2000 years ago life was pretty good.

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If it weren’t for the fall of Rome the Industrial Revolution may have happened well over a thousand years earlier.


7 posted on 10/09/2017 10:22:41 AM PDT by Moonman62 (Make America Great Again!)
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To: aquila48

“Beautiful place - 2000 years ago life was pretty good.”

indeed. IF you owned a bank and dozens of slaves. This house belongs to one of the elite super-rich of the city, equivalent to one of the houses that Al Gore or the Clintons own.


11 posted on 10/09/2017 10:35:38 AM PDT by catnipman ( Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: aquila48; BenLurkin; SunkenCiv; Moonman62
"Beautiful place - 2000 years ago life was pretty good."

Sure, for the top 10% at most, though this home looks nice enough to be a one-percenter.
Supporting them would be platoons of slaves & hired hands.
Our home-owner was a banker not of noble birth, but prosperous:


Of course, what most people don't know is that this ancient Roman banker was the direct ancestor of a notorious British banco player, whose name can't be revealed, but is sometimes known by the numbers 0 0 7:

;-)

25 posted on 10/09/2017 11:11:58 AM PDT by BroJoeK (a little historical perspective...)
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