Show WORLDS CITIES HARD TO KILL rome tw ce burned S x T mes starved par s E S ages few of the world s great cities have not faced at one time or another to tal destruction but a city Is hard to kill fake rome for instance she has been swept by pestilence no fewer than ten times she has been twice burned and six times driven to sion by starvation stan star atlon lation perhaps it is on account of her great vialta 1 ty that she Is called the eternal city paris haf ha gone through eight sieges ten famines two plagues and one fire which deia devastated stated it constantinople has been burned out nine times and has suffered from four plagues and five sieges in addition she has been ruled by monarchs who were worse than a plague yet con stantin ople still flourishes london has been decimated five times by plagues in addition to eions of typhus cholera and other epi demies she has been burned more or less severely several times stray stories |