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Article: 'Rome in ruins' poster.
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- Current Events, a Weekly Reader publication
- Article date:
- September 24, 2004
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Mount Olympus is in Greece. * The Leaning Tower of Pisa is in Pisa, Italy. * The tomato wasn't introduced in Europe until the 1500s. * The first clocks are thought to have been developed in the 1200s; wristwatches likely came into use in the 1500s. * Sandals (not sneakers) were the fashionable footwear of the day. * Hans Lipperhey invented the telescope in 1608. * William Shakespeare did not write Antony and Cleopatra until about 1606. * There were no Native Americans (or canoes) in ancient Rome. * Thomas Edison invented the kinetoscope, the first motion picture machine, in 1893. * It is commonly believed that Marco Polo introduced pasta to Europe in the 13th century; ...