Word: caesarism
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...Gaulish but are probably copied from a Gaulish type. The original prototype is the Phillipus of Phillip of Macedon which shows on the abverse a concrete bust and on the reverse a biga. Two other coins in this group are attributed to the Icent and are dateable shortly before Caesar's invasion...
...impossible. Almost as strange as a silent Shaw picture would be a Shaw opera. That, however, had not been attempted by the young German composer, Karl Friedrich Grimm, who mounted Shaw's steps last week, score in hand. He had merely written a prelude to Shaw's Caesar & Cleopatra. Shaw listened, pondered, approved...
First entry into literature of the unicorn was in 399 B.C. when a Greek physician at the court of Darius described him. Subsequently Aristotle, Pliny the Elder, Julius Caesar, though they had never seen the animal, described him. The Old Testament gives backbone to the legend by mentioning the unicorn seven times...
...asked that they be released from their instructions, that the Senate recede from its demand for these two controverted items. He warned that the House and the White House would not relax their opposition and that, unless the Senate changed front, the Tariff Bill was as "dead as Julius Caesar...
Close to the hill where the shrine of St. Louis now stands, ancient Carthaginians had their temple to Moloch, into the fire-blazing pit of whose brazen stomach they dumped children as sacrifices. Julius Caesar planned to rebuild the city. Augustus did so. It grew to have 500,000 population almost as many as before destruction. The Roman massacres of Christians occurred mostly in the 3rd Century A.D. Most famous of the Carthaginian martyr saints were Cyprian, a bishop, and Perpetua, a rich lady who modestly pulled her torn clothes about her sabre-ripped body before she died. The Arabs...