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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bart9349, post: 1459927, member: 5682&quot;]Petronius: Are you from Italy? Not wanting to get into politics, but whatever happened to Dario Franceschini? He is a thoughtful, center-left intellectual leader of the liberal Democratic Party of Italy.</p><p><br /></p><p>Anyway, the name calling &quot;fascista&quot; still resonates in Italian politics. Watch the short video below from the Italian Senate in Rome, Italy as one right wing politician insults another with an Italian expletive and yells of &quot;fascista&quot; are heard:</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-HLQu3hvXo&amp;feature=related" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-HLQu3hvXo&amp;feature=related" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-HLQu3hvXo&amp;feature=related</a></p><p><br /></p><p>No wonder the Late Roman Republic Senate 2000 years ago was so turbulent.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s some footage from the Senate of the Ancient Roman Republic:</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGvGGyLn9Os&amp;feature=related" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGvGGyLn9Os&amp;feature=related" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGvGGyLn9Os&amp;feature=related</a></p><p><br /></p><p>For those of you who want another taste of modern Italian politics, here&#039;s another from the Italian Senate, I believe:</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&amp;v=Nut1_bg2cik&amp;feature=endscreen" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&amp;v=Nut1_bg2cik&amp;feature=endscreen" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&amp;v=Nut1_bg2cik&amp;feature=endscreen</a></p><p><br /></p><p>This is why many of us enjoy the study of coins: It makes easier the understanding of culture and history, both modern and Ancient.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH]182156.vB[/ATTACH][ATTACH]182155.vB[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>guy[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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