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Stories of the Romans ploughing salt into Just received my latest issue of @
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Found your magazine interesting. Have
Why did conquering generals in passed it on to friends to read. But you
say that Cleopatra was not beautiful.
Must have been something special
ancient times “salt the earth”? about her if great men like Julius Caesar
and Mark Antony fell in love with her.
Gloria Nelson civilisations and you would need about 30 tons per acre to @heidi12alpine
The Old Testament and several Hittite and Assyrian texts render the land uncultivable. In much lower concentrations,
mention that when a city was destroyed after a battle or siege, however, salt was sometimes used as a fertiliser, and many @AboutHistoryMag So chuffed to get
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force. This wasn’t to prevent crops from ever growing there ground with the salt. It seems that this was part of a ritual to @emmishbells
again, though. Salt was a valuable commodity in ancient return the city to nature – eliminating any sign it had existed.
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There was a Saint How did Saint @Tom__Wrigley
Valentine who was
bishop of Interamna Great piece to read and nice to know
in Italy, but historians Valentine become where a lot of Christmas traditions come
aren’t sure if he is the from. @MarylinWillia14
same Saint Valentine we the patron saint
celebrate on 14 February
of lovers?
Harry Anderson
Saint Valentine was a Roman priest
martyred on 14 February, circa
269, by emperor Claudius II,
butweknowalmostnothing
else about him. Chaucer
mentions Valentine as the
patronsaintofmating
birdsandhumanlovers
ina14th-centurypoem,
but a story that he was
executed for secretly Discoverhowa19th-centuryfetishfor
performing illegal pharaohs turned seriously spooky at
Christian marriages was
probablyinventedinthe historyanswers.co.uk
18th century.

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In Pennsylvania, locals gather Following instructions written The265,000-wordnovelby Leonard Keeler, working at
to see if Punxsutawney Phil can by Victoria four years earlier, James Joyce is published. the Scientific Crime Detection
see his shadow. This tradition she receives a military funeral, The first edition contains Laboratory in Northwestern
dates back to 18th-century wearing her wedding veil. In more than 2,000 errors but University, tests his prototype
Germany and originally her left hand she clasps a lock the book is later hailed as polygraph machine on two men
used a badger, rather than a of hair from John Brown, her oneofthemostimportant accused of assault. The results © Alamy, Getty Images
groundhog, to predict spring. putative lover. of the 20th century. help secure their conviction.

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