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It is entirely appropriate to remember a great, no-nonsense Englishman, the Lord Protector Cromwell, instituted the Commonwealth of Great Britain long before the French or American revolutions, and he showed us a model without that Greco-Roman name of republic.
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For had her man simply used 12-point Times New Roman and inked his name near her eyebrow, this wouldn't even be a big deal.
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The release then tosses Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich's name into the mix, speculating the Chelsea owner could be a likely buyer--he's apparently on the hunt for a 100-meter plus yacht to add to his collection of the Pelorus, the Ecstasea and Le Grand Bleu especially as "the project's distinct resemblance to the Pelorus would be likely to have appealed" to the oligarch.
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Energy XXI ( EXXI), whose name utilizes the Roman numeral 21, has been no exception.
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Before the Revolution, Russia had not yet adopted the Gregorian calendar, introduced by Pope Gregory XIII in 1582 to mitigate the errors of the Julian calendar, which owes its name to the Roman emperor who had chosen it 46 years before the birth of Jesus Christ.
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This same Cardinal Dean will also announce to the city of Rome and to the world the name of the new Roman Pontiff.
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It was, after all, a (Roman) government that gave the name Britannia to a rather nondescript province on the northern edge of its empire.
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The first pope to change his name did so in the Sixth Century because he was named after the Roman god Mercury, and he thought it inappropriate to carry that name as pope.
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Not only was a Roman woman without political or legal rights, she was often without a personal name.
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Dr. Armendariz is correct insofar as the U.S. owes a significant amount of its success to the legacy of the Roman Republic: separation of power, checks and balances, and a robust civil servant corps, to name a few.
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