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Rome's Birthday, DNA's Secret & the Worst Soft Drink Decision Ever
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From the founding of Rome in 753 BC to a cosmonaut's fatal final journey, this week in history spans millennia of politics, science, sport, and spectacular human error. Twelve stops, many centuries, one calendar week — buckle up.
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On June twenty-second, sixteen thirty-three, in Rome, Italy, one of the greatest scientific minds of his age was brought to his knees — literally. Galileo Galilei, then sixty-nine years old and nearly blind, stood before the Holy Office and was compelled to formally recant his support for the heliocentric model — the idea that the Earth orbits the Sun, not the other way around.
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