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crossing the Rubicon

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crossing the Rubicon
Caesar passes point of no return into Italy. [Rom. Hist.: Brewer Dictionary, 941]


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Among his topics are bell ringing and other permutations, God's algorithm and graphs, the illegal cube group, and crossing the Rubicon.
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