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Another new pic

Updated the sidebar image again (yay for weekly updates!). This time, it’s a photo of something I didn’t know was in Rome. As people may know, Mussolini was a bit obsessed with the Roman Empire. During his reign, he had a series of giant maps created and installed just up the road from the Colosseum. The four maps show snapshots of Europe and the surrounding regions at four distinct times in the history of the Empire, from the founding of Rome to its greatest extent (under Trajan, in the first century CE). These two maps are the later pair.

I didn’t realize this at the time, but Mussolini also had a map of the “new” Roman Empire installed - the one he intended to rule over. Thankfully, it never came to pass.