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On this day in 753BC Romulus and Remus were said to have founded Rome. According to Rome’s founding myth the two boys were fathered by Mars (or Hercules in some versions) but cast out of their home by their uncle when still babies. The boys were discovered by a wolf, which raised them along with its own cubs. When it came to founding the city itself both boys had a different idea where it should be built, Romulus preferring the Palatine hill and Remus plumbing for the Aventine hill. In order to sort out this dispute the brothers decided to count vultures (as you do) but this plan ran into trouble when each brother probably just plucked a number out of thin air hoping it would be bigger than the other’s but still believable. Romulus, it would seem, tired of these shenanigans first and started building a ditch and wall around the Palatine hill. Remus, being an annoying sort of chap, started messing about with the wall and finally insulting Romulus by jumping over it to show him how rubbish he thought the wall was. Romulus had had quite enough of this idiot by now and slew him.
There is a moral in that.
And now, the news, brought to us from Gavin Ll. Wilson and the CFZ news blog:
Alcathoe's bat discovered in Yorkshire and Sussex
Trapped foxes freed with washing liquid
Horse adopts family of ducklings
Rowers ask Queen to kill swan
India announces new tracking system to protect tigers
Nepal university students told: Rats ate your exams
Dog denied chance to run for mayor
Well, that’s a bit ‘ruff’ on the poor thing.
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