One example is Marguerite Yourcenar's "Memoirs of Hadrian, " an imagined life of the Roman emperor Hadrian.

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Hadrian Ball, medical director of the Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust, said the service was being continually monitored.

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It is hoped more visitors can be attracted to historic Roman landmark Hadrian's Wall, which stretches across Cumbria and Northumberland.

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Create London's Hadrian Garrard said it would be a "counterpart to the big, flashy, flag-waving expensive ticket offers that we've seen previously".

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The Countryside Agency says the 84-mile Hadrian's Wall Path National Trail, from Wallsend to Bowness on Solway, is now proving a massive tourist hit.

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The steel jacketed foundation, Triton, will be designed and developed by its subsidiary Aquind, at OGN's new purpose-built facility at its Hadrian Yard in Wallsend.

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But it's an arresting way of highlighting a set of problems arising from Scotland's constitutional debate, and how it could affect the cousins on the warmer side of Hadrian's Wall.

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Applied to Getty, who imagined he was the reincarnation of the Roman Emperor Hadrian, and who admired Hitler as a kind of 20th century Hadrian, Mencken was partially right on.

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When Roman forces built Hadrian's Wall, very few of their men were Italians, most of them were Spanish, Gallic and German soldiers, while several of the auxiliary units who took over garrison duty from the legionaries came from North Africa.

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