Word: hadrian
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...quest" for the man behind the legend while he unearths old letters, lost manuscripts, people who knew Corvo. The book is the story of a personality. It is also the story of the story. The trail begins in 1925 when Symons first hears of his man through reading Hadrian the Seventh, Corvo's tale of a young English Catholic who becomes Pope. Struck by its power and originality, he makes inquiries about the author, hears many a contradictory yarn, grows curious, turns literary detective...
...occurred in the 2nd Century B.C., when John Hyrcanus, an early Maccabaean leader, in spite of protests from the rabbis, converted the idolatrous Idumeans. In 740 A.D. the Khazar dynasty in southern Russia, originally pagan, became Jewish. Their kingdom was wiped out in 1016. Aquila, supposedly related to Emperor Hadrian, became a Jew, translated the Old Testament into Greek. A contemporary convert is French, Catholic-born Poet Aimé Palli...
...battlefield where the Greeks defeated the Persians in 490 B. C. The dam is faced with marble from Mt. Pentelicon (which also supplied the marble for the classic temples of the Acropolis) and the water from its reservoir travels a portion of its route to Athens via the old Hadrian Aqueduct, constructed some 2,000 years ago. Largely interested in Ulen & Co. is Matthew Chauncey Brush's American International Corp. and Charles Augustus Stone's and Edwin Sibley Webster's Stone & Webster...
Near Wroxeter, a shattered Roman tablet related, when pieced together, that the Roman ruin from which it was retrieved was a forum -the largest yet found in England -built by Emperor Hadrian in A. D. 130. Wroxeter's name in Hadrian's day was Uriconium. Uriconian relics: a steel-sheathed cockspur, coins, a surgical lancet, sandal imprints on cement. ¶Sir Humphrey Rolleston consoled his fellow countrymen by telling the British Medical Association that mummies almost 5,000 years old examined by him bore traces of gout, tuberculosis, pyorrhea; that a bust of Alexander the Great gave hints...
...been the place, popular sentiment has, quite justly, overruled them. It is, at all events, difficult to be sure, because one of the only positive things that is known about the tomb that is thought to be Christ's, is that it was, during the reign of the Emperor Hadrian, the cellar of a temple to Venus. Last week British engineers announced that the marble slabs over the sepulchre which Christendom generally accepts as the tomb of its Founder were bulging ominously. "Steps must be taken," they warned, "against collapse...