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Chogyam Trungpa Gyatso,
Tibetan Monk
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Romans had their mystery cults, their vast pantheon, their worship of recently dead emperors - it would take him forever just trying to talk through all that distraction to get to the point.
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Luigi Pascioni,
Auto Mechanic
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Romans, Goths and Lombards came and went, and by the 11th century this part of Italy consisted of city states struggling with each other and with the Popes and Emperors.
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Bori Gonbutoren,
Reindeer Herder
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This practice was derived from the Holy Roman Emperor's practice of creating hereditary princes of ancient but extinct principalities.
A very readable and informative survey of Roman coinage covering the emperors, the history of Rome as told by its coinage and how to learn to read and understand Roman coin legends.
The transition from Roman herding dog to the dog we know today can be attributed to the ambitious Roman Emperors wanting to conquer Europe.
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Paddy McGuinness,
Newsagent
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England was a Roman colony at that epoch, and there were no English kings, because England was ruled formally by Roman emperors themselves.
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Khalid Binalshibh,
Taxi Driver
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Then followed the ten terrible persecutions under the pagan Roman Emperors which were to crown thousands with the diadem of martyrdom; and Constantine the Great and his successors were allowed to trample upon the true believers in the Oneness of Allah.
Holy Roman and Byzantine emperors, Muslim caliphs, French counts and kings of Aragon laid claim to it.
There is that in some of the Collects which as it has lasted since the days when Roman emperors were sitting on their thrones, so will it last while man continues what he is, a praying creature.
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Mark Harris,
Priest
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Romans was written to Jewish and Gentile Christians in Rome, who would have been familiar with the infamous sexual excesses of their contemporaries, especially Roman emperors.
They were generally called by the church, headed by Holy Roman Emperors and were used to get back the Holy Land from the Muslims and later to persecute heretics in Europe.
The Emperor's order was defied by a Roman Priest, Valentine, who performed secret marriages until Roman soldiers apprehended him, and Claudius sentenced him to death.
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