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Rural Irish landscape, Sligo, Ireland.

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Nero (Nero Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus) (ad 50-54) the fifth Roman emperor (ad 54-68), stepson and heir of the emperor Claudius.

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Gunnar Myrdal in 1974

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