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...back to Rome. Only now is one of the items on its way back to Addis Ababa, the magnificent cast-iron statue of the Lion of Judah. Though he is pleased with the return of the symbol of his legendary succession from King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba, Emperor Haile Selassie is not satisfied. The trophy he wants most still stands near Rome's Circus Maximus. It is a finely carved, 83-ft. granite obelisk that once rose above Ethiopia's ancient capital of Axum...
...tantalizing hints ("I come not to bring peace but a sword"), little of Jesus' militancy appears in the Gospels. The reason, argues Brandon, was that Christianity early in its history underwent an earth-shaking trauma: the fall of Jerusalem. In A.D. 70, the legionaries of the Emperor Vespasian and his son Titus put down a four-year rebellion led by a group of Jewish rebels known as the Zealots, and destroyed the city. In Rome, where Titus returned in triumph brandishing trophies from the ruined Temple, feelings were running high against Jewish intransigence in general and the Zealot rebellion...
...This likeness of the Emperor Vespasian [979 A.D.] from the Bardo Museum in Tunis, may well interest any of your Texas readers who are themselves concerned with their place in history...
During the Middle Ages, the political strength of Popes ebbed and flowed with the tides of growing nationalism, but there was never a serious challenge to their position as head of the church. The Emperor Henry IV knelt penitentially in the snows of Canossa before Pope Gregory VII; France's King Philip the Fair, a few centuries later, made a virtual prisoner of Boniface VIII. Both monarchs acknowledged alike that the Roman pontiff was their spiritual overlord. Popes seldom made major church decisions apart from consultation with general councils, which assumed special importance in preserving unity during the Great...
...lesser defeats that lead up to it. Most of the authenticated sages?quite a few losers among them? emphasize a very ancient idea: because the loser alone controls his attitude, he can always change that attitude and regard defeat as unimportant. "Our life," wrote Marcus Aurelius, the Roman emperor-philosopher, "is what our thoughts make...