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Did you know that Diocletian was the first Roman Emperor to retire? He was, and after retiring developed a passion for cabbage-growing.
Name: Dioclês (a.k.a. Diocletianus, a.k.a. Diocletian, a.k.a. Dominus et deus)
Born: A.D. 245
Employment History
- 284: Soldier
284 - 292: Emperor of the Roman Empire
292 - 305: Emperor of the Eastern Roman Empire: (Empire too damn big; delegated half to Maximian.)
305 - 312: Cabbage grower
Skills and experience
Semi-divinity, autocracy, repelling barbarian invasions, persecuting Christians, creating martyrs, ending civil war, splitting up empires, growing cabbages
4 comments:
Did all the others get killed while in power? Or did they retire too?
Did you know (at least one of) your feed(s) ha(s/v)e (this ambiguity is getting irritating!) stopped updating?
I suddenly thought today that maybe it wasn't that you hadn't posted anything in a month, but rather maybe your feed wasn't working, so I dropped by. Imagine my delight to discover entire PAGES of badauntisms to immerse myself in!
[Nips back to Bloglines to find out WHICH feed I am subscribed to].
In fact, it's worse than I thought: there's a whole lot of blogs that were formerly on my bloglines and have vanished entirely! I know I didn't delete you all, so I assume the feed must have been deleted somehow (maybe due to switching to Blogger Beta?).
I will reinstate you now :)
Kenju: The others either died or were killed while still in power. I guess when you become divine (or at least semi-divine) you aren't SUPPOSED to retire from divinity.
People tried to persuade Diocletian out of retirement, but he refused. He preferred his cabbages.
Styleygeek: I have been indulging in something known as stealth blogging. Don't tell anyone!
(Actually I don't have a clue what happened. I subscribe to my own feed so I can keep an eye on things, and for a while after I switched to beta it stopped updating. At that time I thought of investigating what had happened, but was busy (or lazy) and then it came back, so I didn't.)
I didn't know that. Did you know there is a prince in France who has devoted himself to 650 heirloom varieties of tomatoes and runs a tomato festival each September? http://frenchlook.com/jardinier.html
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