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Show WORLD'S CITIES HARD TO KILL. Rome' Twice Burned, Six Times 8tarved Paris' Eight Sieges. Few of tho world's great cities have not faced, at nu tiins or another, total to-tal destruction, II ut a city Is hard to kill. Take Homo, for Instance, She 1mm been swept by pentllenco no fewer' than ten times. She has been twice burned and six times driven to submission submis-sion by starvation. Perhaps It is on account of her groat vitality that she Is called tho Kternal city. Paris has gone through eight sleaes. ten famines, two plagues and one (Ire limli ii In i- Constantinople has been burned out nine times nnd has suffered from four plagues and Ave sieges. In addition ' she has been ruled by mminrclm who were worse than a plaguy, Yet Con atantliioplo still flourishes. Jondon has been decimated Ave times by plagues, In addition to vlslla tiohs nf typhus, cholera nnd other upl demlcs. She has been burned more ur less fcoverely several times, Stray |