In ancient Roman religion, Aeternitas was the divine personification of eternity.

The religious maintenance of abstract deities such as Aeternitas was characteristic of official Roman cult from the time of the Julio-Claudians to the Severans.

The temple of Aeternitas Augusta at Tarraco in Roman Spain was pictured on a coin.

Aeternitas Imperii was among the deities who received sacrifices from the Arval Brethren in a thanksgiving when Nero survived conspiracy and attempted assassination.

From the 2nd to the mid-3rd century, the iconography of Aeternitas includes the globe, celestial bodies ( stars, or sun and moon ), and the phoenix, a symbol of cyclical time, since the phoenix was reborn in flames every 500 years.

In The Marriage of Philology and Mercury, Martianus Capella says that Aeternitas is among the more honored of Jupiter's daughters.

Aeternitas holding a Phoenix ( mythology ) | phoenix on the reverse of an antoninianus by Trebonianus Gallus

On the coins of Titus ( 80 – 81 AD ), Aeternitas holds a cornucopia, leans on a scepter, and has one foot placed on a globe, imagery that links the concepts of eternity, prosperity, and world dominion.

Aeternitas sometimes holds the globe on which the phoenix perches.

The coins issued 75 – 79 AD under Vespasian show Aeternitas holding a head in each hand representing Sol and Luna.

Like the more familiar anthropomorphic deities, Aeternitas and other abstractions were cultivated with sacrifices and temples, both in Rome and in the provinces.

The divinity sometimes appears as Aeternitas Imperii ( the " Eternity of Roman rule "), where the Latin word imperium (" command, power ") points toward the meaning " empire ," the English word derived from it.

The male equivalent of Aeternitas is Aion, the god of limitless time.

Aeternitas, representing Virginia's eternity, stands at the right of Libertas.

The motto gracing the reverse with its trio of Libertas, Ceres, and Aeternitas is Perseverando, or in English, Persevering, a reminder to future generations of the need to persist in maintaining the blessings of liberty.

446 Aeternitas is a main belt asteroid.

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The champions of the Union maintained that the Constitution had formed, fundamentally, the united people of America, that it was a compact among sovereign citizens rather than states, and that therefore the states had no right to secede, though the citizens could.

They recognized that slavery was a moral issue and not merely an economic interest, and that to recognize it explicitly in their Constitution would be in explosive contradiction to the concept of sovereignty they had set forth in the Declaration of 1776 that `` all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among them are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

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As the field on which my tent was pitched was a favorite natural playground for the kids of the neighborhood, I had made many friends among them, taking part in their after-school games and trying desperately to translate Grimm's Fairy Tales into an understandable French as we gathered around the fire in front of the tent.

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He dabbled in verse, could get along well among most of the European languages, and was fluent in French and German.

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He was placed in charge of athletics, and among other things adapted the type of calisthenics known as the daily dozen.

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The Communist coup in Czechoslovakia in 1948 was followed immediately by the conclusion of the Brussels Treaty, a 50-year alliance among Britain, France and the Benelux countries.

In 1957 the social-economic approach to European integration was capped by the formation among `` the Six '' of a tariff-free European Common Market, and Euratom for cooperation in the development of atomic energy.

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An occasional traveler from Italy brought news of Peter Robert, who was now distributing his Bible among the Waldensian peasants.

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Although it was dark as usual I could see that the hall had only recently contained a great many people.

For Matilda, it was the first she had known in many a night.

Her name was L'Turu and she told me many things.

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it was demonstrated, many critics would later point out, in the length of his novels.

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