Not All Italians Are The Same

But, reading about this:

and other, perhaps less overt, Roman political machinations (Byzantine, could we say? Machiavellian? they learned from the best) can only conjure the images of this:

Patron et clientela par excellence.

this is wild.

looking at this graph of People In Germany – such noticeable holes caused by the First and Second World Wars, as well as the Great Depression!

Wow (in a shocked, My-God-the-Devastation-of-War, way)!