Word: justinian
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...mosaics date back to 537 A.D., 207 years after the beginning of the Byzantine Empire. In that year the Christian Roman emperor Justinian dedicated the present mosque as the "Great Church of Holy Wisdom," after it had been under construction five years at his command...
...Died. Justinian Cardinal Seredi, 60, Roman Catholic Primate of Hungary, Archbishop of Esztergom, who was carried off as a hostage by the Nazis just before the Soviet armies took Budapest; of a heart attack ("where and under what conditions ... it is not yet precisely known," said a Vatican German-language broadcast). As early as 1934 he said, "It is not possible for a Catholic priest to approve Nazi principles, and I decidedly prohibit . . . even a benevolent attitude of any of my priests toward...
Successively conquered by Justinian's great General Belisarius, by Don John of Austria, by Charles V of Spain, by Mohammedans, Turks and Barbary Coast pirates, Tunisia at last was grabbed by France in 1881 as the cornerstone of her burgeoning African empire. But not for her dates and olives have modern nations since sought Tunisia. Mussolini, yowling for the "return of Tunisia" (on the basis of a large Italian colony and a claim 1,500 years old), has wanted it to control the Mediterranean. Only 88 miles separate Tunisia from Sicily. A "second Gibraltar," it also has, in Bizerte...
...Britain's Genealogists' Magazine, Portcullis Pursuivant of Arms Anthony Richard Wagner produced a genealogy showing Neville Chamberlain to be a 19th-generation descendant of Edward I (1239-1307), who was known alternately as "Longshanks" and "The English Justinian...
...slow fall, Count Belisarius, does not quite measure up to these, largely because Belisarius is noble, dull, honest and courageous, where bumbling old Claudius was gnarled with humanness. Purporting to be the work of Eugenius, educated eunuch and slave of Belisarius' wife, it is laid in Justinian's reign, tells the story of Justinian's one capable general. Belisarius defeats the Persians, takes Carthage, conquers Italy, marries a shrewd, level-headed prostitute, Antonina, is blinded by Justinian, who fears him as a rival...