My Wife has hornified me.

Gladiators were combatants who fought to the death to entertain the public.

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The city of Shang-hae is surrounded by a wall about three miles and a quarter in circuit, which is not fortified in any manner; there are six entrances at gates, which give ingress and egress to the inhabitants of the city and environs; four of these gates open into the neighbourhood of the river where the warehouses of the merchants are situated.