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Tropic Press: J.C. Bruce

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Thank Julius Caesar for October's weird spot on the calendar

ESSENTIAL NEWS. September 30, 2025. Florida Weekly

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Oct 01, 2025
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Julius Caesar is famous for many things besides being a human pincushion for 23 angry, knife-wielding Roman senators on the Ides of March.

(Pro tip for would-be despots: Don’t declare yourself dictator-for-life. Caesar did, and he got his wish; he was dictator for the rest of his life. Except for the part where his life was, at that point, measured in mi…

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