Word: hadrian
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...time captured by Nebuchadnezzar who destroyed Jerusalem and carried the Jews into Babylonian captivity. The Kingdom of Israel was destroyed by Sargon, King of Assyria, in 772 B.C. The Kingdom of Judah came to an end when Titus destroyed Jerusalem in A.D. 70. Some 60 years later, the Emperor Hadrian put down a Jewish uprisal, forbade the Jews to enter Jerusalem, ordered the great Dispersal which scattered the Jews throughout creation...
Long before Chaucer began to build the English language, long before Buonarroti sketched his plans for St. Peter's, a British islander named Nicholas Breakspear became priest, then Abbot, then Cardinal, then Legate, then Pope, assuming the grand Roman Imperial name of Adrian (Hadrian) IV. And never before or since has an islander been Pope...
...sent the shades of ancient horsecars and the good old days to perdition with garish, glaring lights; a community which demands in the Harvard Square station, of all demands that might have been made, an escalator. Think of rising from a Daedalian subterranean labyrinth through the jaws of Hadrian's tomb into the doors of College House--by an escalator. It is an insult to antiquity...
These papyri have been for a long time in the hands of English scholars of Oxford and Cambridge who have studied them thoroughly and have made careful translations. They find among the manuscripts many of Homer's writings, poems by Sappho, some of Emperor Hadrian's letters and a portion of St. John's Gospel. Although this last is not supposed to be the original writing, it is known that it far antedates any of the codices from which the English version is taken...
Within the next few days a marble bust of the Roman emperor Hadrian, excavated in the vicinity of Dardanelles about 24 years ago, will be added to the archaeological collection in the museum of the University of Pennsylvania...