That's very good. The study of history helps in recognizing repetitive patterns, a skill at which you excel. History repeats itself in human affairs again and again.  "There's nothing new under the sun." As history fans know, Julius Caesar's irreversible decision to cross the Rubicon R. with armed legions in 49 B.C. led to his brutal slaying on the ides of March (March 15) in 44 B.C.