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TIL the mathematician, astronomer and astrologer Valentin Naboth deduced he was about to enter a period of danger. To hide, he stockpiled food and drink, closed his blinds, and locked his doors and windows. Some robbers came, thought the house was empty, broke in, saw Naboth there, and killed him.

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