Fall of Rome

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1. The collapse of the Roman Empire in the fifth century. Two of the main events of the Fall of Rome were the plundering of the city of Rome by an invading tribe, the Vandals, in the middle years of the century and the abdication of the last Roman emperor, Romulus Augustulus, in 476.

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Ms. Greenfield is convinced that few people learned their lesson in the 2008 crisis, and she has spent a decade worrying about a modern-day version of the Fall of Rome.

From New York Times ● Aug. 3, 2018

But a shortage of phosphorus simply isn’t something that’s going to happen in any time scale less than that which separates us from the Fall of Rome.

From Forbes ● Jun. 27, 2013

In fact, they could not help but reenact the Fall of Rome several more times, as it was great fun to keep collapsing and getting up again.

From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood

Like flashes these agile young men jumped back upon the deck of the Fall of Rome just before the space between wharf and deck became too wide to jump.

From The Best Short Stories of 1917 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story by Edward J. (Edward Joseph Harrington) O'Brien

In September, 1850, an audience gathered at Stockton to hear a lecture upon so recondite a subject as the “State of Learning from the Fall of Rome to the Fall of Constantinople.”

From The Life of Bret Harte With Some Account of the California Pioneers by Henry Childs Merwin