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Hello and welcome to the history of room. Episode 90, the hundredth episode. So here

we are at a nice shiny milestone cut and stamped fittingly enough during the

age of Antoninus Pius, who cut and stamped so many milestones during his

reign. I never thought when I started the show that I would ever get near a hundred

episodes. Nor did I think for a minute I would still be doing this almost three

years after I published the first episode on a random Sunday night in late July

2007. That first episode was just over 1,900 words and lasted 11 minutes and

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