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onager Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-05-05 06:47 PM
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Emperor Nero was more helpful than Bush...
Edited on Mon Sep-05-05 06:48 PM by onager
According to the Wikipedia article about Nero, after the great fire in Rome...

The same accounts depict him opening his palaces to provide shelter for the homeless and arranging for food supplies to be delivered in order to prevent starvation among the survivors.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nero
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