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emperors behaving badly
So, the head teacher in your school. Possibly an alien? Or maybe some kind of ZOMBIE-VAMPIRE-WEREWOLF mash-up? What do you reckon?
Definitely some kind of MoNsTeR, that’s for sure.
That’s the only way to explain what a tYrAnT they are! What with all the making you do
schoolwork and wear school uniform and not ride mOtOrBiKeS in the corridors and stuff. But if you think you’ve got it bad, at least the guy in charge isn’t prone to feeding
you to WIlD AnImAlS, burning down your town or being nasty to giraffes. Ha ha ha!
While some of the Roman emperors were regarded as wise, brave or fair – such as Marcus Aurelius or Augustus – some have gone down in history as being cruel, brutal . . . or just DoWnRiGhT WeIrD.
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