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M.S. Bellows, Jr.
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This is VERY cool. See the big oval stadium at lower left? That's the Circus Maximus, the chariot-racing stadium immortalized in "Ben Hur."
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(You Youngs remember Ben Hur, right? The huge movie in which I'm pretty sure Charlton Heston said "You can have my martiobarbuli when you pry it from my cold, dead hand"?)
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And get this: the Circus Maximus IS STILL THERE!!!
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P.S.: ( I still have no idea why The Beach Boys thought the Indy 500 was somehow less exciting than a Roman Chariot race. Those things look INSANE!)
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