• They saw the departure as the last days of a modern-day Roman emperor, mired in scandal.

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  • At the southern terminus of the walk, the ancient city of Bath provided superior opportunities for shopping (Bath aqua glass, artisan handbags), dining (Sally Lunn's, the Pump Room, Jamie Oliver's), sightseeing (museums, Roman ruins) and relaxation in modern rooftop thermal baths, Roman-style, and eucalyptus and menthol showers.

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  • According to researchers, while many modern pets may look like those depicted in ancient Egyptian tombs or Roman mosaics, extensive cross-breeding through thousands of years has meant that no modern dog breeds can be truly classified as "ancient".

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  • In this case, a Reddit user posted a question asking if it would be possible to destroy the Roman Empire with a battalion of modern day U.S. Marines.

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  • John XXIII was famed for calling the Second Vatican Council in 1962, which ushered in great changes in the Roman Catholic Church's relationship with the modern world.

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  • On the front cover of the Fischer catalog is a striking bronze facial mask of a Roman helmet from the first century that could be a modern sculpture.

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  • And though the city's monumental examples of the beaux arts and art deco movements are well documented in civic buildings dressed up in a mixed bag of Classical Roman and Greek elements, the city actually received its greatest modern architectural contribution in the years after WWII, when Ludwig Mies van der Rohe pioneered the new "International Style".

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  • Head to the modern Archaeological Park Musuem, built over a part of the town's Roman-era decumanus (the main east-west road in a Roman town).

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  • He was probably right to ditch Adrian Hilton, a candidate in Slough whose idea that the European Union is a Roman Catholic plot proved too weird even by the Europhobic standards of the modern Conservative Party.

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  • "I'm hoping that Benedict XVI's successor will be open to progressive ideas, so that the Roman Catholic Church would be seen as a dynamic institution that can adopt to modern day situations, " he said.

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  • In her mind, she holds an alternative map of the centre of the city: one which, instead of modern buildings and highways crowded with traffic, has ancient walls, baths and residences dating back to Roman, Hellenistic and even prehistoric times.

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