The first stanza of the poem that begins “There was a little girl, /Who had a little curl,/right in the middle of her forehead…” has been attributed to Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
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The Roman emperor Vespasian began construction of the Colosseum in AD 72. It was finished in AD 80, the year after he died. The huge amphitheater included an elevator that could lift elephants to the floor of the arena.