Lustrum censors in the Campus Martius, after the taking of the census was over. As this purification took place only once in five years, the word lustrum was also used to designate the time between two lustra. The first lustrum was performed in 566 BC by King Servius, after he had completed his census, and afterwards it is said to have taken place regularly every five years after the census was over. In the earliest period of the republic, the business of the census and the solemnities of the lustrum were performed by the consuls. The first censors were appointed in
A Many-Splendoured Thing the Chinese Civil War, both Chinese and Europeans long settled in China. Although it is technically a novel, the book is strongly autobiographical. Han Suyin's real-life lover was killed during the Korean War in 1950. Two years later, she married Leon F. Comber, a British officer in the Malayan Special Branch. Han Suyin died in November 2012, aged 95. A Many-Splendoured Thing A Many-Splendoured Thing is a novel by Han Suyin that was a bestseller when first published in London in 1952 by Jonathan Cape. The book was made into the 1955 film "Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing", which also