America's debt is the largest in the world for a single country. It runs neck and neck with that of the European Union, an economic union of 28 countries. For more, see Sovereign Debt Rankings. The debt is greater than what America produces in a whole year.
This deadly wound was in Julius Caesar's chest. Brutus, perhaps the most famous of Julius Caesar's assassins, stabbed the great man in the groin. Caesar landed only one counterattack when he stabbed Publius Servilius Casca Longus, the first perpetrator, in the arm with a stylus.
On October 23, Brutusâ army was crushed by Octavian and Antony at a second encounter at Philippi, and Brutus took his own life. Antony and Octavian soon turned against each other, and in 27 B.C. the Roman Republic was lost forever with the ascendance of Octavian as Augustus Caesar, the first emperor of Rome.