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CSUN’s University Library towers above other buildings on campus with four-story high columns that resemble those in ancient Greece. Its giant steps invite people from all over the university to check out its hundreds of thousands of volumes and utilize its many other resources. The library is positioned smack-dab in the middle of CSUN, and...

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Resisting Humanity's Downward Spiral

The First Italia on Coinage: Ancient Coins of Italy The coin in Fig. 1 represents the first attestation of the name Italia on coinage. It was issued in 90 BCE, in Corfinium/ Italica, the capital of the Italic rebels who took arms against Rome between 91 and 87 BCE and almost destroyed it in what Roman historians recall as one of the bloodiest wars ever fought on Italian soil (Fig. 2). Figure 2. Corfinium/Italica. Marcus Livius Drusus, a tribunus plebis or “Tribune” who supported the con...