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  2. Nero's Torches - Wikipedia

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    Nero offered his gardens for the spectacle, and was exhibiting a show in the circus, while he mingled with the people in the dress of a charioteer or stood aloft on a car. [ 2 ] Of note is that the signs attached to the feet of the condemned list their alleged crimes, and show the Alexamenos Graffito .

  3. The Nigger of the "Narcissus" - Wikipedia

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    The first US edition was published by Dodd, Mead and Company, and actually preceded the English edition. [1]The Nigger of the "Narcissus": A Tale of the Forecastle [a] (sometimes subtitled A Tale of the Sea), first published in the United States as The Children of the Sea, is an 1897 novella by Polish-British novelist Joseph Conrad.

  4. Henryk Siemiradzki - Wikipedia

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    Henryk Hektor Siemiradzki (24 October 1843 – 23 August 1902) was a Polish [1] [2] painter. He spent most of his active creative life in Rome.Best remembered for his monumental academic art, he is particularly known for his depictions of scenes from the ancient Greek-Roman world and the New Testament, owned by many national galleries of Europe.

  5. Trapped in the dark for 35 hours - Red Sea dive-boat ... - AOL

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    The luxury dive boat set off from Port Ghaleb on Egypt's Red Sea Coast on 24 November. On board were 31 international guests - mostly experienced divers - and three dive guides, along with 12 ...

  6. Great Fire of Rome - Wikipedia

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    Nero's Torches by Henryk Siemiradzki. According to Tacitus, Nero targeted Christians as those responsible for the fire. According to Tacitus, Nero was away from Rome, in Antium, when the fire broke out. Nero returned to the city and took measures to bring in food supplies and to open gardens and public buildings to accommodate refugees. [17]

  7. Death by burning - Wikipedia

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    Nero's Torches. According to Christian legend, Roman authorities executed many of the early Christian martyrs by burning, including the warrior saint Theodore and Polycarp, the earliest recorded martyr. [15] Sometimes Roman immolation was carried out using the tunica molesta, [16] a flammable tunic: [17]

  8. Drone startup Neros raises funding from Sequoia, eyes ... - AOL

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    Neros, an autonomous drone startup founded about a year ago, has raised $10.9 million in a seed round from Sequoia Capital to build a new factory and manufacture more drones to sell to Ukraine ...

  9. Nero in the arts and popular culture - Wikipedia

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    Nero's Guests (documentary) film by Deepa Bhatia follows the work of journalist P. Sainath in reporting the agrarian crisis in India and draws a comparison between citizens indifferent to the devastation of farmers and Nero's guests at the festivities who continued their enjoyment by the light of human torches.