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Today the same principle has inspired modern scientists. In 2013, engineers at the University of Illinois built a sensor from about a billion nano-sized "Lycurgus cups", far more sensitive than earlier devices of its kind.
Do you think the Romans understood the science, or did they get lucky?
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Historians still debate the exact year, and some details may have been polished in the retelling. But both Plutarch and Suetonius tell the story, and it sounds very much like the man who would one day cross the Rubicon.
If a prisoner kept joking that he would kill you, would you have laughed along?
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Ok, @leopardboy just got me wondering about who has the angriest expression on a coin. Google suggests Caracalla, and the "Murderous Tyrant" Tetradrachms: https://www.cointalk.com/threads/caracalla-tetradrachm-from-the-prieur-collection-the-meanest-face-in-the-empire.348894/
What would you add to the conversation as a really angry portrait, ancient or modern?
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