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•264–241Rome defeats Carthage (now Tunisia) in First Punic War
The headline, "GOP Leadership Defeats Campaign Reform Bill," is getting to be right up there with "Extremist Group Claims Credit for Bombing" and "Union Officials Indicted in New Jersey."
After defeats by Greeks in the south, Latins in the center, and Gallic invaders in the north, the Etruscan empire faded in the fourth century b.c.
Just as index-fund investing defeats this purpose, so too does trading based on anything other than an evaluation of a company's underlying prospects for the future.
Serbs may find solidarity in the memory of defeats past and present, but when it comes to rallying America, nothing succeeds like success.