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Pliny the Elder
     
Pliny the Elder
(23-79 AD) an ancient Roman writer who wrote Natural History, a very long book about plants, animals, minerals etc. He was killed when Mount Vesuvius erupted, and he was the uncle of Pliny the Younger.
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