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The Firmament
‘The Forum as the greatest public servant of Rome’ From the lowly Plebes to the patrician Senators, the public square hosted speeches, criminal trials and even the odd gladiator match. One could even argue the forum was the true center of the Republic and the Empire that followed. In what had been a far more…
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A Dance in Fire, Book V
The first time I ever wrote was sitting in a wadi by a roadside in Afghanistan. In that hell from away from home I found an outlet, a narrator for my Greatest Adventure of All Time. What I put down in that Afghan ditch that day wasn’t important in the scheme of things but I…
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Row your boat
At night the body of clouds advancing higher up the sky smothers the whole quiet gulf below with an impenetrable darkness, in which the sound of the falling showers can be heard beginning and ceasing abruptly—now here, now there. Indeed, these cloudy nights are proverbial with the seamen along the whole west coast of a…
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