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= Ancient Rome: The Bathhouses = >
 * 1) There were three kinds of baths: the cold (frigidarium), the warm (tepidarium) and the hot (caldarium)
 * 2) There would also be a workout area
 * 3) The baths were huge
 * 4) Slaves would have to rub olive oil on the people when they got out of the bath(s)
 * 5) A visitor would take their clothes off and hand them to an attendant
 * 6) After applying olive oil they scraped it off with a strigil
 * 7) The visitor could work out and be sweaty first before he went into the warm bath
 * 8) The meaning of taking the baths were to get rid of the dirt
 * 9) The more worthy people would get professionals to use the strigil on them
 * 10) It was very cheap to take a bath
 * 11) Bathing was very important to the romans
 * 12) The floor of the bathhouse was supported by concrete or brick
 * 13) Some bathhouses were privately owned, but others were for the public
 * 14) Sometimes they would hire someone to cut their hair or for a massage
 * 15) The bathhouse also had: gardens; exercise rooms; reading rooms; libraries; restaurants
 * 16) The romans could go their to catch up with news, business meetings