Um er-Rasas (Kastrom Mefa'a) started as a Roman military camp and grew into a town in the Byzantine era and continues into the Early Islamic period.

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The most impressive sight is the relatively modern Byzantine-era Church of SS Lot and Procopius, which is home to more sumptuous surviving mosaics.

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So it goes in the Byzantine world of whistleblowers in the U.S. In the post-Enron era these self-appointed do-gooders are granted breathless audiences by U.S. Congress, extolled on television and lauded by Time magazine as Persons of the Year.

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