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Hello, and welcome to the award-winning podcast, The History of Rome.

Episode 120, Interregnum.

So, yeah, we won the podcast award for best educational podcast of 2010.

Totally cool.

There is no way that I can claim any sort of sole ownership of the honor because it was you guys out there who nominated the show and then you guys who win and voted for it.

So, I consider this a win for everyone in the history of roam community.

I didn't win anything, but we just won best educational podcast of 2010.

Congratulations.

A reliance assassination in late 275 AD came as a shock to everyone.

And apart from a few irreconcilables in the Senate, the unconquered restore of the world was mourned throughout the empire.

The rank and file of the Imperial Army still camped in threase, was especially grief stricken, and their grief soon turned to anger.

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