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From: rrizzo@bbncca.ARPA (Ron Rizzo)
Newsgroups: net.motss
Subject: Re: History and homosexuality
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Date: Tue, 10-Jul-84 13:40:58 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jul 10 13:40:58 1984
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Organization: Bolt, Beranek and Newman, Cambridge, Ma.
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Acutally, it may've been the lead in their drinks: archaeologists
have found extensive traces of lead-caused disease in skeletons
from the latter centuries of the empire.  At some point (1st or
entury AD?), Romans started regularly mixing lead in their wine
and gradually poisoned themselves.