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Rob Archer
Mar 28, 2016
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That moment when you realize history doesn't make any damn sense is when you stop trying to figure out how we got here from there, and instead just try to imagine how it must have been to be alive back then.

Aside from technology, was an average day for an average person in the Rome of 195 CE any different than it is for you? What did the air smell like?…

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