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The Sack of Rome occurred on August 24, 410.
The city was attacked by the Visigoths, led by Alaric I.
At that time, Rome was no longer the capital of the Western Roman Empire, having been replaced in this position by Mediolanum in 286 and then by Ravenna in 402.
Nevertheless, the city of Rome retained a paramount position as "the eternal city" and a spiritual center of the Empire.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sack_of_Rome_(410)
Interestingly
"Saturday at a press conference from the Rio Grande Valley, Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) discussed her tour of a border holding facility and addressed the humanitarian crisis of thousands unaccompanied minors flooding across the U.S.-Mexico border, which she called a "humanitarian opportunity."
Pelosi explained, "We are all Americans -- north and south in this hemisphere," and urged America to see this as not a crisis but an opportunity "to be helpful." She also said she wished she could simply "take home" the thousands of children temporarily housed in the overburden facilities.
Pelosi on the Border: We Have to Use This 'Crisis' as an 'Opportunity'
The city was attacked by the Visigoths, led by Alaric I.
At that time, Rome was no longer the capital of the Western Roman Empire, having been replaced in this position by Mediolanum in 286 and then by Ravenna in 402.
Nevertheless, the city of Rome retained a paramount position as "the eternal city" and a spiritual center of the Empire.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sack_of_Rome_(410)
Interestingly
"Saturday at a press conference from the Rio Grande Valley, Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) discussed her tour of a border holding facility and addressed the humanitarian crisis of thousands unaccompanied minors flooding across the U.S.-Mexico border, which she called a "humanitarian opportunity."
Pelosi explained, "We are all Americans -- north and south in this hemisphere," and urged America to see this as not a crisis but an opportunity "to be helpful." She also said she wished she could simply "take home" the thousands of children temporarily housed in the overburden facilities.
Pelosi on the Border: We Have to Use This 'Crisis' as an 'Opportunity'