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Friday, January 20, 2012
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One of Lourens Alma-Tadema's Victorian masterpieces that invoke the lazy life of cultured millionaires -- in Roman garb but, some would say, more expressing the values of his own time.
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John Bedell is an archaeologist, historian, and father of five living in Maryland. He has self-published two novels and is writing a third.
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