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GANGS? HOOKERS? ? WE’RE IN.

So quoth reviewer Tim Stack about the BBC America series Copper, which saw its first season last year, and is nearing the conclusion of its second. Created by Tom Fontana (of Homicide: Life on the Street fame), helmed by executives who also worked on Mad Men, and produced under the auspices of the BBC, one would have great expectations for such a series. It also has the advantage of a unique setting. With the exception of Martin Scorsese’s bombastic and blood-soaked revenge saga, Gangs of New York, the combination of this particular time period and location – New York’s Five Points during the end of the Civil War – has seen remarkably little play in film and television. This is surprising when viewed in light of its dramatic potential and the opportunity it provides for comparison with our modern society, where moral ambiguity, racial tension, and political corruption resonate all-too-familiarly with contemporary audiences.

Due to a number of factors, the New York of was a brutal place. Famine and unrest in other countries drove the number of new immigrants up, and these latest additions to the melting pot often faced uncertain prospects, if not abject poverty. Soldiers, inured to violence by the horrors of war, passed through the city on the way to their campaigns, or made it their home after discharge or desertion. Each vote was bought and paid for by a city government awash in graft and nepotism, trickling down even to individual police precincts. The result was catastrophic. The &#;Annual Report of the Board of Metropolitan Police Commissioners&#; noted that &#;the whole system needs reform…all these officers are, unfortunately, dependent in a measure for their places on the very offenders they are called to punish.&#; This same report described the Civil War as &

Marcus Claudius Marcellus was a Consul of the Roman Republic in and BC.

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Marcus Claudius Marcellus was the son of Marcus Claudius Marcellus; one retelling of his life claimed that he was the illegitimate son of the SyracusanGreek inventor Archimedes and the Sicilian dancer Artemis, and that his mother, taken as a slave by Marcellus after losing her memory, raised the young Marcus in Rome, where the elder Marcellus adopted Marcus as a son. He served under his father at the Siege of Syracuse in BC, serving as a military tribune under his father. In BC, he was badly wounded in the same Carthaginian ambush which killed his father. He went on to serve as tribune of the plebs in BC and consul in BC and BC. His son Marcus Claudius Marcellus served as consul in BC.