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...There were satisfactions in store: a rapturously received Carnegie Hall concert in 1974; Alone With Me and I'm Still Here: Confessions of a Sex Kitten, follow-ups to her '50s autobiography Thursday's Child; and her distinctive voicing of the villainous Yzma in the Disney animated feature The Emperor's New Groove and its Saturday-morning TV spinoff The Emperor's New School, which earned her two Emmys...
circa 280 A.D.Nicholas is born in Patara, Lycia - part of modern day Turkey. Like others of the Emperor Constantine generation, he enters a life of religious servitude. He works his way up from abbot to the archbishop of Myra - a nearby town - and gets his first nickname: Nicholas of Myra...
...often he's dealing in what you might call "rhetorical Jews" rather than real Jews. It's also important to remember that for much of Augustine's lifetime Jews were Roman citizens with the rights of citizens. This begins to change in the late fourth century, when the Emperor decides to link government closely with one particular form of Christianity - a big faith-based initiative. But the real social disenfranchisement of Jews occurred long after Augustine. Medieval persecutions and - much later - the Holocaust, were not events that Augustine could have imagined...
...knows how to be less than charming in print - but they do vary in quality. The first tale, "The Wizard and the Hopping Pot," is the worst, a grimly heartwarming trifle about how you should be nice to Muggles. "Babbitty Rabbitty and Her Cackling Stump," a variant on the emperor's new clothes, isn't much more successful, though it was a relief to me to learn that the stump in question is a tree stump and not some kind of chortling severed limb...
...Chinese rebel fighting against Qing (or Manchu, and thus foreign) rule. In Hero (2002), Li is an assassin who, to his own detriment, abstains from an attempt on the life of the Qin King, who goes on to become the venerated Qin Shi Huangdi, the first Emperor of China and the ruler who would unify the nation, standardize the Chinese language and commence construction of the Great Wall. And on it goes. If you want to picture Li's résumé, imagine it on red paper and bedecked with gold stars...