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In 1588, Philip II prepared to invade England, only to be repulsed when the English navy destroyed Spain’s previously invincible Armada.
A former senior FBI official told reporters this week that tear gas canisters used on the Branch Davidians could have started the fire that destroyed the group's compound.
Built by Emperor Hadrian around a.d. 125 on an earlier site destroyed by fire, it achieved a marvel of engineering with its magnificent coffered dome: over 43 m (141 ft) in interior diameter (larger than St. Peter’s), exactly equal to its height.
Some 30 years after his death, the theaters had been destroyed, the actors dismissed and the playwrights sent into exile.
Built in a classical Indian architectural style, this huge structure is only two-thirds the size of the original destroyed by a typhoon in 962.