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Curiously, the synagogue seems to have been included in the master plan for the large Roman gymnasium complex, and lies just off the main marble-paved avenue of Roman Sardis. The Jewish historian Josephus has preserved the decrees of Roman emperors Julius Caesar and Augustus which guarantee the right of the Jewish community of Sardis to assemble according to the custom of their fathers...
...days, when the rulers of Europe faced a balance-of-payments problem, they turned not to economists but to alchemists, who always seemed to be just on the verge of discovering how to turn base metal into gold. In 1709, Johann Friedrich Böttger, an alchemist employed by Augustus the Strong, Elector of Saxony and King of Poland, hit upon something almost as good as gold: using wig powder as a base, he produced Europe's first true porcelain. To keep the secret, Augustus shut Böttger up in a dank castle in the Saxon village...
Lord and Lady Randolph Churchill often stayed there with "Copper Top," as Rosa called young Winston. Other cherished guests were Lord Northcliffe, General Kitchener and the Duke of Windsor, upper bohemians such as Ellen Terry, G. B. Shaw, Isadora Duncan, Artists John Singer Sargent and Augustus John (who both painted Rosa), and "all the American aristocrats...
...Besides," McLaughlin continued. "I have proven my ability to get votes. As a practical political matter, you want to nominate a winner and not a loser." In 1961 he topped Augustus G. Means, the Republican candidate for Lieutenant Governor by 209,000 votes. Volpe defeated Joseph Ward, the Democratic candidate for governor, by 139,000 votes...
...Cordiner endured an almost continuous harangue from Mrs. Wilma Soss, president of the Federation of Women Shareholders, who lectured him on everything from selling appliances to the difficulties of getting to Schenectady by train, peremptorily bade him "keep quiet" when he tried to interrupt. Texaco's Chairman Augustus C. Long was visibly rankled by a woman who accused him of not fighting hard enough in defense of the oil industry's 27% depletion allowance. "When are you going to flex your muscles?" she cried. Long flexed them just long enough to turn...