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Caesar's comet

Author: * Cimon Aristocratos - 7 Posts on this thread out of 254 Posts sitewide.
Date: May 23, 2005 - 13:40

Scheduling that comet was a spectacular piece of gamesmanship by Augustus, equalled, so far as I know, only by Mark Twain in fiction! And then it was not a comet but a solar eclipse (see A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court).

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