Fitness instructor carves his girlfriend’s name into the Colosseum.
Charles IV and His Family, by Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes, 1800. Prado Museum, Madrid.
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Although the Oxford English Dictionary lists the etymology of “hooligan” as unascertained, one of the three speculations is that it derives from a popular music-hall song of the 1890s about a rowdy Irish family that went by that last name.
I cannot bear a parent’s tears.
—Virgil, c. 25 BCLapham’s
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