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Double Bass GenzBenz and gut

[DEL]Galileo[/DEL] was upset. He knew exactly what he was talking about and they made him drink hemlock.
Socrates is who was made to drink the hemlock in a trumped-up trial after offending too many Athenians in 399BC.

Galileo was excommunicated for trying to explain why the heliocentric theory of the solar system was not incompatible with the theology of the day in 1618.