Why Are Eagles a Symbol of So Many Countries?
And why are those eagles so odd-looking?
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At the very peak of its imperial power, deep in the forests of central Europe, a Roman army blundered into a trap.
It was the year 9 CE. Augustus, the founder of a new politic…
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