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The Politically Incorrect Guide to Science, by Tom Bethell (Washington: Regnery, 2005), paperback, 270 pages. For ordering information, see the ad on page one.
In 63 B.C., King Mithridates VI, the great opponent of the armies of the late Roman republic, faced a terrible reversal of fortune. For years he had fought war after war against the expansionist Roman state, even for a time expanding his own empire in what is now modern-day Turkey. Finally the Romans sent against him the legions of Pompey the Great, and the tides of war changed. As the Romans overwhelmed his forces, Mithridates found his supporters abandoning him. Even his own son took up arms and led a ...
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