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Caligula's Floating Pleasure Palaces

https://www.discovermagazine.com/planet-earth/nemi-ships-how-caligulas-floating-pleasure-palaces-were-found-and-lost-again  

A great early Charles Addams cartoon.  Scene: a college crew race.  The usual shells rowing by, then one something like this.  One observer to another: "Must be the University of Southern California".

Caligula's Floating Pleasure Palace Ships at Lake Nemi. They were the largest ships ever built in the Ancient World.
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