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Rome's Eastern Line Ended With a Seven-Year-Old in a Monastery Garden
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Rome's Eastern Line Ended With a Seven-Year-Old in a Monastery Garden

The last Roman emperor of the East didn't die in a palace. He died in a monastery garden, aged seven, after a botched operation that nobody ordered.

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