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Life Is a Riot

Since the assassination of Caesar, when Romans took to the streets and burned and trashed their own city, riots have broken out every year around the world. Riots are defined as events in which crowds attack people and/or public or private property with violence that tends to be out-of-control and contagious, but other than that riots come in all shapes, sizes and colors.

Riots are usually seen as lawlessness and disorder, but they can also be politics or economics by other means. Riots have led to battles, wars, revolutions and the fall of great empires. The Russian Tsar, the …