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It is possible that Constantine had other children, but like the name of his wife, or wives, this has not been recorded.
The Pilgrim of Bordeaux reports in 333: There, at present, by the command of the Emperor Constantine, has been built a basilica, that is to say, a church of wondrous beauty.
Constantine FitzGibbon, Thomas ' first in-depth biographer, wrote " No major English poet has ever been as Welsh as Dylan ".
The laws of Áed Find are entirely lost, but it has been assumed that, like the laws attributed to Giric and Constantine II ( Causantín mac Áeda ), these related to the church and in particular to granting the privileges and immunities common elsewhere.
As the historian Socrates Scholasticus said, at the opening of his history that was designed as a continuation of Eusebius, " Also in writing the life of Constantine, this same author has but slightly treated of matters regarding Arius, being more intent on the rhetorical finish of his composition and the praises of the emperor, than on an accurate statement of facts.
The panegyrical tone of the Life of Constantine has grated on modern sensibilities.
* Averil Cameron ( professor at King's College and Oxford ) and Stuart Hall ( historian and theologian ), in their recent translation of the Life of Constantine, point out that writers such as Burckhardt found it necessary to attack Eusebius in order to undermine the ideological legitimacy of the Habsburg empire, which based itself on the idea of Christian empire derived from Constantine, and that the most controversial letter in the Life has since been found among the papyri of Egypt.
He moves easily between the buttoned-down demeanor that suits a police procedural story and the loose-jointed manner of his comic roles .” A repeated theme in roles he has portrayed is that of saving the world, including the characters of Ted Logan, Buddha, Neo, Johnny Mnemonic, John Constantine and Klaatu.
( However, it has been argued that these depictions are from an earlier monument by Marcus Aurelius, from which Constantine incorporated portions into his Arch.
That fact has been confirmed explicitly by the papal letter Industriae tuae ( 880 ) approving the use of Old Church Slavonic, which says that the alphabet was " invented by Constantine the Philosopher ".
Theophanu was nevertheless of distinguished noble heritage: recent research has established her as the daughter of Sophia Phokaina, Tzimiskes ' cousin and niece of Nikephoros II, and of Tzimiskes ' brother-in-law ( from his first marriage ) Constantine Skleros.
* Constantine I assigns convicts to grind Rome's flour in a move to hold back the rising price of food in an empire whose population has shrunk as a result of plague ( see 309 AD ).
* Collapse of the Kingdom of Georgia into anarchy and it's subsequent fragmentation into rival states of Kartli, Kakheti, Imereti, Samtskhe-Saatabago and a number of principalities, which is finalised in 1490 when Constantine II of Georgia has to recognize his rival monarchies.
To back up an armistice signed with the Byzantine Empire in 1046, his father married him to Byzantine Anastasia ( d. 1067 ), who tradition holds was a daughter of Emperor Constantine IX Monomachos by his second wife ( he gained the Imperial throne through his third marriage ), but no reliable source has ever been found to confirm this.
Tram projects have been launched in both Constantine and Oran, and over $ 6 billion has been earmarked for tram projects in 12 provinces throughout Algeria.
The ( arch ) bishopric of Constantinople has had a continuous history since the founding of the city in 330 AD by Constantine the Great.
This 3 issue mini series follows immediately after the events of " Brightest Day ", and follows the actions of John Constantine as he tries to work out what has changed with Swamp Thing, and track him down, with the assistance of Zatanna, Batman and Superman.
She lived about sixty years later than Helena of Constantinople, the mother of Constantine the Great with whom she has, in times past, been confused.
The story also features Charles Constantine ( a member of the same infamous family as John Constantine ), a World War I veteran who has repeatedly struggled with his inability to kill.
The very name thema is of uncertain etymology: it has been suggested that it came from the Chazar Turkic tūmān, " ten thousand men ", but most scholars follow Constantine Porphyrogennetos, who records that it originates from Greek thesis (" placement ").
The ominous verse which has Constantine fall with his people, might allude to the end of his family.
The consensus view is that the key changes occurred in the reign of Constantine II ( Causantín mac Áeda ), but the reign of Giric has also been proposed.
The Chronicle of the Kings of Alba has Donald succeeded by his cousin Constantine II.

Constantine and spoken
Rastislav's request was granted when Constantine and Methodius, two brothers who had learned the Slavic dialect spoken in Thessaloniki ( Greece ), arrived with a few disciples in Moravia in 863.

Constantine and pressure
* 1917 – King Alexander assumes the throne of Greece after his father Constantine I abdicates under pressure by allied armies occupying Athens.
Within months, the land laws of Basil II were dropped under pressure from the Anatolian aristocracy ( the dynatoi ), although Constantine struck at the nobility when threatened by conspiracy.
In the face of Venizelist and Anglo-French pressure, King Constantine left the country for Switzerland on 11 June 1917 ; his second-born son Alexander became king in his place.
It was originally formed in 1956 by Chief Seepheephe Matete and members of his Bafokeng clan as a pressure group called the Marema Tlou ( Unity Party but literally: Elephant Choppers ) that succeeded in installing Constantine Bereng Seeiso ( King Moshoeshoe II from October 1966 onwards ) as paramount chief in 1960.
* In the comic Hellblazer, issue 34 ( October 1990 ), the main character John Constantine refers to Strangeways prison " exploding with and blood ," and describes its holding cells as " Victorian pressure cookers " into which government officials who turn a blind eye should be squeezed to " see what pops out of pimple.
Constantine hoped that international recognition and internal pressure between the two governments would force the junta to resign, leaving the field clear for him to return triumphant to Athens.

Constantine and look
Like Love Street, Marquee Moon is a tie-in to Neil Gaiman's The Sandman and offers a look at the early days of John Constantine of Swamp Thing and Hellblazer fame.
At the same time, Shan begins to get little whispers from her SB, telling her to look for a gene bank that Constantine supposedly possesses.

Constantine and good
At one time or another they have characterized him as a political propagandist, a good courtier, the shrewd and worldly adviser of the Emperor Constantine, the great publicist of the first Christian emperor, the first in a long succession of ecclesiastical politicians, the herald of Byzantinism, a political theologian, a political metaphysician, and a caesaropapist.
The lorica segmentata eventually disappeared from Roman use, most likely due to its high cost and difficult maintenance despite its good qualities, although it appears to have still been in use into the early 4th century, being depicted in the Arch of Constantine erected in 315 during the reign of Constantine I to commemorate his military achievements.
From his letter that survives, Constantine shows frustration that the church cannot come to a good conclusion and he calls for a larger council, what is now known as the Council of Arles in 314.
" The persecution of King Constantine by the press of the Allied countries, with some few good exceptions, has been one of the most tragic affairs since the Dreyfus case.
John Constantine, the main character of Hellblazer, is portrayed as a kind of confidence man who does morally questionable things, arguably for the greater good.
While sometimes striving for the good of mankind, Constantine is often manipulative and a dangerous person to have as a friend, as the lives and souls of those around him become perilously involved in his misadventures.
The original mini-series concentrated on Timothy Hunter's introduction to the world of magic by the Trenchcoat Brigade ( the Phantom Stranger, Doctor Occult, Mister E, and John Constantine ), who are aware that the boy has the potential to be the world's greatest magician, but that his allegiance to good or evil is undecided.
Constantine found it warming that people could open up to them as confidantes, and also said " It's been fascinating to see how looking good and having faith in your appearance makes you into a sexier person, which makes you attractive to your partner again.
The subsequent native sources, all written in Old Bulgarian language, without exceptions treat the state as Bulgarian in the line of tsar's title of Ivan Asen II from his Turnovo's inscription from 1230 " In Christ the Lord good and faithful Tsar and autocrat of the Bulgarians, son of the old Asen ", an inscription from Boyana Church from 1259 " This was written in the Bulgarian Empire under the pious and devout Tsar Constantine Asen " and one marginal note from 1269 / 70 " In the days of the faithful tsar Constantine, who ruled the Bulgarian throne ".
A good number of these relics involve the journey of Saint Helena of Constantinople, the mother of Constantine the Great to Palestine in the fourth century to gather relics.
The software quality metrics of coupling and cohesion were invented by Larry Constantine based on characteristics ofgood ” programming practices that reduced maintenance and modification costs.
Studies by various people including Larry Constantine, Edward Yourdon, and Steve McConnell indicate that the first two types of cohesion are inferior ; communicational and sequential cohesion are very good ; and functional cohesion is superior.
The other imagery supports this purpose: decoration taken from the " golden times " of the Empire under the 2nd century emperors whose reliefs were re-used places Constantine next to these " good emperors ", and the content of the pieces evokes images of the victorious and pious ruler.
He concludes that medicine in Italy was limited to a few simple practical knowledge, which led Constantine to ask whether there was in Italy for good books in medicine, he said no.
The princes of Hohenzollern maintained good relations with Napoleon, and the last reigning prince, Constantine, Prince of Hohenzollern-Hechingen married Eugénie de Beauharnais.
Finally, he was called in Constantinople, and was able to build a good relationship with Constantine.
English author Frederic Harrison wrote Theophano: The Crusade of the Tenth Century ( 1904 ), which portrays Theophano as the arch-schemer of Constantinople who manipulated the court to secure her own position in the face of inconstant Imperial leadership ( the vain and distracted Constantine VII, the drunkard Romanus II, the overly pious Nicephorus Phocas ) and thus largely for the good of the state.
The best writers and musicians were invited to Pavlovsk and the Marble Palace, and Grand Duke Constantine Constantinovich devised a programme of lectures for his children, providing a good education for them.

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