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Saturday, July 12, 2008

Salad days...

Julius Caesar is thought to have been born on either July 12 or 13, 100 BC. Caesar trivia:

* Historians are arguing whether he was an epileptic or hypoglycemic.

* A political opponent once forced him to read out a note in the Senate - but it turned out to be a love letter from the opponents' sister in law.

* Senators began to plot against him when he failed to stand for them when a senatorial delegation visited him, though his supporters argued this was because of a bout of diarrhoea.

* Caesar was stabbed 23 times. Plutarch reported that he said nothing, simply drawing his toga above his head.

* Various likenesses of Caesar bear an uncanny resemblance to the shithouse ABC science presenter, Robyn Williams.

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