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Angilbert was the Homer of the emperor's literary circle, and was the probable author of an epic, of which the fragment which has been preserved describes the life at the palace and the meeting between Charlemagne and Leo III.
The Byzantine emperor Leo III after his victory over Arab besiegers in 740 renamed the city Nicopolis ( Greek for " city of victory ").
This was followed in the east by the Ecloga of Leo III the Isaurian ( 740 ) and the Basilica of Basil I ( 878 ).
In the 730s Leo III carried out extensive repairs of the Theodosian walls, which had been damaged by frequent and violent attacks ; this work was financed by a special tax on all the subjects of the Empire.
The emperor Leo III issued a decree in 726 against images, and ordered the destruction of a statue of Christ over one of the doors of the Chalke, an act that was fiercely resisted by the citizens.
The canonization of Saint Udalric, Bishop of Augsburg, by Pope John XV in 999 is the first undoubted example of a papal canonization of a saint from outside Rome ( Some historians maintain that the first such canonization was that of Saint Swibert by Pope Leo III in 804 ).
The first computer using a multiprogramming system was the British Leo III owned by J. Lyons and Co .. Several different programs in batch were loaded in the computer memory, and the first one began to run.
* 800 – Charlemagne judges the accusations against Pope Leo III in the Vatican.
The Holy Roman Empire looked to Charlemagne, Charles the Great, King of the Franks, as its founder, who had been crowned Emperor of the Romans on Christmas Day in 800 by Pope Leo III.
Hoping to avoid the sack of Rome herself, Emperor Valentinian III sent three envoys, the high civilian officers Gennadius Avienus and Trigetius, as well as the Bishop of Rome Leo I, who met Attila at Mincio in the vicinity of Mantua, and obtained from him the promise that he would withdraw from Italy and negotiate peace with the emperor.
In recognition of his successes and his political support for the Papacy, Charlemagne was crowned Emperor of the Romans, or Roman Emperor in the West, by Pope Leo III in 800.
In that year the iconoclast Byzantine emperor Leo III, angered by archbishops of the region because they had supported Rome in the Iconoclastic Controversy, detached the church of the province from the Roman pope and placed it under the patriarch of Constantinople.
The Iconoclastic Period began when images were banned by Emperor Leo III the Isaurian sometime between 726 and 730.
In the Byzantine Empire, iconoclasm began with Emperor Leo III.
Sometime between 726 and 730, the Byzantine Emperor Leo III the Isaurian began the iconoclast campaign.
* 816 – Pope Leo III ( b. 750 )
** Pope Leo III
** Pope Leo III
In 816, Pope Stephen IV, who had succeeded Leo III, visited Reims and again crowned Louis.
Leo III the Isaurian also known as the Syrian ( Greek: Λέων Γ ΄, Leōn III ), ( c. 685 – 18 June 741 ) was Byzantine Emperor from 717 until his death in 741.
On his deposition Leo joined with his colleague Artabasdus, the stratēgos of the Armeniac theme, in conspiring to overthrow the new Emperor Theodosius III.
Leo entered Constantinople on 25 March 717 and forced the abdication of Theodosios III, becoming emperor as Leo III.

Leo and base
After his 1946 military discharge he returned to Brooklyn and saw play as a catcher in 1947, joining the team's already solid nucleus of Jackie Robinson, Pee Wee Reese and Carl Furillo ; but the emergence of Roy Campanella made it evident that Hodges had little future behind the plate, and he was shifted by manager Leo Durocher to first base, where his play came to be regarded as exemplary.
Saint Leo University operates 17 continuing education centers in seven states, including California, Georgia, Mississippi, South Carolina, Texas and Virginia, as well as dozens of military base centers and the University's Center for Online Learning.
But his season ended on September 6 against the Giants – he was batting against Rubén Gómez in the second inning, and opposing manager Leo Durocher was yelling for Gomez to " stick it in his ear "; Furillo was hit on the wrist by a pitch, and proceeded to first base, but with a 3 – 2 count on the next hitter he charged into the Giants dugout and began choking Durocher.
He tried Lary at third base and Leo Durocher at shortstop, while he attempted to acquire George Uhle and Ed Morris, but was unsuccessful in both cases.
As much of the driving force at the early organizing of the MST came from Catholic base communities, much of the MST ideology and actual practice are rooted on the principle, taken from the social doctrine of the Catholic Church, that private property should serve a social function-a principle developed during the 19th century, and made into Catholic official doctrine since Pope Leo XIII's Rerum Novarum encyclical ; on the eve of the 1964 military coup, that was the principle evoked by President João Goulart in his famous " Central rally " ( a mammoth rally held in Rio de Janeiro, near to the city's greatest railroad station, where the president made a speech offering a blueprint for various political and social reforms ) when proposing the expropriation of estates of more than 600 hectares in area situated at the vicinity of federal facilities ( roads, railroads and reservatoirs as well as sanitation works )- a move that triggered the strong conservative resistance leading to Goulart's downfall.
Its ‘ base ’ is the Leo Coles Pavilion, located on the Green Lane Playing Field site – its meetings take place there, and the clerk ’ s office is situated there.
The random gunfire continued, and Rochester third base coach Frank Verdi and Havana shortstop Leo Cárdenas ended up with flesh wounds.
Also present are the commander's wife, his sons Leo and Jacky who own a launch boat business, and Adam Eddington, an intern at the Island's research base and friend of Vicky's brother, John.
A year after MacPhail took over the Dodgers in, he named fiery shortstop Leo Durocher player-manager and Dressen as his third base coach.
A natural shortstop, Helms was moved to third base by the Reds his rookie season with Leo Cardenas firmly entrenched at short.

Leo and gold
* Emperor Leo I assembles a massive naval expedition at Constantinople, which costs 64, 000 pounds of gold ( more than a year's revenue ) and consists of over 1, 100 ships carrying 100, 000 men.
* Theodoric Strabo signs a peace treaty with Leo I and according to the terms the Goths are paid with an annual tribute of 2, 000 pounds of gold.
In 1821 Pope Pius VII honoured Lingard with a triple doctorate-in theology, canon law and civil law-and a few years later Leo XII conferred upon him a gold medal generally only given to cardinals and princes.
He received gold medals from Pope Leo XII, the University of Pennsylvania, the Royal Geographical Society, and the Royal Scottish Geographical Society, and was knighted in 1906.
Timbuktu was to become a byword in Europe as the most inaccessible of cities, but at the time Leo visited, it was the center of a busy trade carried on by traders in African products, gold, printed cottons and slaves, and in Islamic books.
Pope Leo XIII purportedly carried a hipflask of Vin Mariani with him, and awarded a Vatican City | Vatican Papal Orders of Chivalry | gold medal to Angelo Mariani.
Pope Leo awarded a Vatican gold medal to the wine, and also appeared on a poster endorsing it.
Shaken by these disasters, Leo bought his freedom by offering to give up the Cilician cities ( Sarventikar, Mamistra and Adana ) to Raymond I ; in addition he paid 60, 000 gold pieces and gave his son as a hostage ; but on his return home he forgot his promise.
Only in the reign of Leo III the Isaurian ( r. 717 – 741 ) did the title basileus appear in silver coins, and on gold coinage only under Constantine VI ( r. 780 – 797 ).
This period saw the largest accumulation of papal tiaras in modern times, with both popes accumulating 10 tiaras between them, with Leo receiving an unprecedented solid gold tiara in 1903 to commemorate his Silver Jubilee on the papal throne.
Rosettenville is named after Leo ( or Levin ) Rosettenstein, who surveyed the land and sold stands before gold was discovered on the Witwatersrand.

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