http://www.newstatesman.com/writers/felipe_fernandez-armesto en http://www.newstatesman.com/200212160047 http://www.newstatesman.com/200212160047 Mon, 16 Dec 2002 12:00:00 GMT Felipe Fernandez-Armesto Whatever you eat this Christmas, you won't match Clodius Albinus, who downed 500 figs at a sitting. And if you're affluent you won't even try

]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/199912200027 http://www.newstatesman.com/199912200027 Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:00:00 GMT Felipe Fernandez-Armesto New Statesman Millennium - What if the Armada had landed . . . or Columbus had never made it to America? Or the Chinese had become a maritime power? Or the US had won in Vietnam? Felipe Fernandez-Armestoimagines alternative millennia

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