What do the letters SPQR mean... Why are they in the modern coat of arms of the italian city of Rome close to?
Question: a unimaginative cross?
Answer: SPQR means "Senatus Populusque Quiritium Romanorum " ("The Senate and the People of the Quiritis Romans"). This acronym represented the two governing powers in the Roman Republic, the Senate (who represented the roman aristocracy) and the people (the roman

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On the unsentimental detail of David Mach's Die Harder (2010) at Edinburgh's Metropolis Art Centre, a sculpture made from coat hangers which marks the 400th anniversary of the Regent James Bible. Photograph: Richard Riddick In the 1980s one of Britain's most ...





