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Tomb & Church. Around 322, Christian Emperor Constantine affronted the wealthy tomb owners by ordering the construction of a great ramp of earth from the side of the hill against which the tombs nestled. Ruthlessly, though with great care not to disturb the dead, most of the tombs were sliced off to the level of the ramp, and their interiors were rammed full of earth. On this ramp Constantine began the construction of the first Church of St. Peter...
...young lady, a gawky girl of 13, was a distant cousin whose father had recently become King Emperor. A devastatingly handsome young man of 17, Philip could not be expected to show any great interest in her as a woman, but he could scarcely duck entertaining her. As an officer and a gentleman, he did his best to please by leaping lithely over a tennis net ("How good he is. Crawfie. How high he can jump!" cried Lilibet to her governess), and spicing the conversation on the royal yacht with salty -though not too salty-anecdotes. Elizabeth was entranced...
Sunburned after a month spent collecting and classifying plants in the 3,000 acres surrounding his Nasu Imperial Villa in Tochigi, Japan's Emperor Hirohlto took time out from scholarly puttering to be photographed informally (no tie) with his occasional companion on the botanical walks, Empress Nagako...
...almost 700 years after Pompey's conquest, Syria was a Roman and Byzantine province, but sometimes it was difficult to tell who were the conquerors and who the conquered. When Rome celebrated the 1,000th anniversary of her founding in A.D. 248, the Roman Emperor was Syrian-born Philip the Arab. As the incubator of Christianity-Paul was converted on the road to Damascus-Syria gave Rome five Popes: John V, St. Sergius, Sisinnius, Constantine and St. Gregory...
...middle-aged Japanese couple, who clearly remember the days before Pearl Harbor, their young son's reaction to the historical film Emperor Meiji and the Great Russo-Japanese War was incredible. "Who were all those people?" asked the boy when he got home. "Who was General Nogi? I never heard of him." Fifteen years ago, every pupil would have known about the Japanese commander at Port Arthur. but to the present generation, such national heroes as Nogi might never have existed...