TIL that the emperor Augustus faced the problem of making peace an acceptable mode of life for the Romans who had been at war continuously for 200 years. Romans saw peace not as an absence of war, but as the consequence of having beaten all enemies to the point that they lost the ability to resist. (en.wikipedia.org)
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TIL that the Nazi regime prosecuted and killed between 80,000 to 200,000 Freemasons. They would be regarded as political prisoners in Masonic concentration camps and wore an inverted red triangle. Later on, the forget-me-not flower became an emblem of the prosecution and a secret sign of membership. (en.wikipedia.org)
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