I guess I’m in debunking mode this week. Anyway, factoid: topic is the seven hills of Rome. Apparently the Romans themselves did not know which seven they were; there were at least eight contenders.
Source: Susanna Braund, in her Ipod lectures on Virgil’s Aeneid, findable on the Stanford page at Ipod U (I guess I join the general amusement that this stuff pops up on your gadget as a "song").
Back in Louisville, there was a radio station that used to claim to be the third largest in the city. I think there were seven contenders for second.
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