Oh, he's cute. Mr. I can never sleep when I'm traveling. He's hugging his pillow like a sloth on a branch.

He couldn't sleep before. Now listen to him. Sounds like an elephant with a chest infection.

Well, they call him a dreamer. And now they're right.

All aboard, Mr. I can never sleep when I'm traveling.

Find all the comfort you need in the quiet lounge.

Piando Ferries, there is another way.

This is the Friends of History Debating Society.

I'm John Vatscherworth my good friend and colleague,

Germanicus, Markov Leos. We're on the way to the theatre, but we pause just for a moment to be sentimental about how the might of Rome does succession. We do not vote in the American

style. The Senate has favorites, yes, but you can never tell. It's whimsical. The decision is often

made by a small group, sometimes for money, sometimes for fear of not being paid. The Praetorians for example you

best pay them quickly and a lot otherwise they have been known to be troublesome.

However in the course of all these centuries, we have many

inventive ways of succession. They come to a final chapter, however. It's very difficult to imagine retired

emperors. Dramaticus succession for us. We like it to be definitive. We don't like two or three choices afterwards.

We're successful at that. The Americans have never achieved it. How did we achieve it?

The Romans... it. Imperial in which the Emperor would be not merely defenestrated but his Imago would be erased from the standards of the legions and

it was of the legions. And it's paradoxical that throughout the, oh,

1500 years of the Roman imperial order. There was only one instance where an

emperor was defenestrated and then came back and that was Justinian the second. And by the way, Justinian the second was not

murdered. The so-called Byzantine Romans were more elegant in depriving an emperor of

his ability to return and that was to cut off his nose later to blind him but at this period in the seventh century they would cut off his nose.

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