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...Author Lamb tells their story, the peasant emperor loses in stature and the prostitute empress takes on a regal aspect. Justinian is seen as a dull, lifelong scholar, a grubber for facts, a physical coward with an insatiable lust for power. He seldom left his palace, and depended on his great commander, Belisarius, to defend the empire. Of his many great projects, only two fully succeeded: the Justinian Code and the building of the magnificent Church of St. Sophia...
...married and divorced raven-haired Empress Fawzia, Farouk's beautiful younger sister. She is now married to Ismail Shirene Bey. Farouk's attempt to make his brother-in-law War Minister was the final spark that set off last week's army revolt...
Equally shocking to later expurgators. e.g., Thomas Bowdler, were Gibbon's racy reflections on imperial sex life. Of the Empress Theodora he wrote: "After exhausting the arts of sensual pleasure she most ungratefully murmured against the parsimony of Nature," adding in a footnote, "She wished for a fourth altar on which she might pour libations to the god of love." No bowdlerizer, Editor Saunders lets Gibbon have...
Gandhi to Gettysburg.During the next four years, Elizabeth Vining tried to do just that, and in the process she became more intimate with Japan's royal family than any Westerner in history. She found the Emperor a "shy and sensitive man," the Empress a "comfortable, motherly figure." But her favorite royal personage was twelve-year-old Crown Prince Akihito himself-"a lovable-looking small boy, round-faced and solemn but with a flicker of humor in his eyes...
...Czar Peter sent a Dane named Vitus Bering and 33 men to poke around in Kamchatka, and especially to find out whether a land bridge connected Asia and North America. Bering proved the continents separate by sailing through the straits between them, but Peter's successor, the Empress Anne, was not altogether convinced...