Among his epic poems, we possess the titles and some fragments of three pieces: the Fisherman, Kirka or Krika, which, however, is designated by Athenaeus as doubtful, and Helena, Of his elegies, some beautiful fragments are still extant.

During the excavation, Helena is alleged to have rediscovered the True Cross, and a tomb, though Eusebius's account makes no mention of Helena's presence at the excavation, nor of the finding of the cross but only the tomb.

By the crusader period, a cistern under the former basilica was rumoured to have been the location that Helena had found the True Cross, and began to be venerated as such ; although the cistern later became the Chapel of the Invention of the Cross, there is no evidence for the rumour prior to the 11th century, and modern archaeological investigation has now dated the cistern to the 11th century repairs by Monomachos.

* Chapel of Saint Vartan-on the north side of the Chapel of Saint Helena is an ornate wrought iron door, beyond which a raised artificial platform affords views of the Quarry, and which leads to the Chapel of Saint Vartan.

It is believed in Theosophy of Helena Blavatsky that each religion ( including Theosophy ) has its own individual Heaven in various regions of the upper astral plane that fits the description of that Heaven that is given in each religion, which a soul that has been good in their previous life on Earth will go to.

150 miles up the Mississippi River, a Confederate Army is repulsed at the Battle of Helena, Arkansas.

He is also now thought to have been responsible for the building of Santa Costanza on a Christian site just outside Rome as a mausoleum for his wife Helena and sister-in-law Constantina.

* 1502 – The island of Saint Helena is discovered by the Portuguese explorer João da Nova.

* 1864 – Helena, Montana is founded after four prospectors discover gold at " Last Chance Gulch ".

[...] And after we left the island of Saint Helena, we saw another island two hundred miles from there, which is called Ascension ".

The Dutch Republic formally made claim to St Helena in 1633, although there is no evidence that they ever occupied, colonised or fortified it.

It is from this date that St Helena claims to be Britain ’ s second oldest colony ( after Bermuda ).

The island ’ s two-floor museum situated in a building near the base of Jacob ’ s Ladder was opened the same year and is operated by the St Helena Heritage Society.

One commentator has observed that, notwithstanding the high unemployment resulting from the loss of full passports during 1981 – 2002, the level of loyalty to the British monarchy by the St Helena population is probably not exceeded in any other part of the world.

Saint Helena is an island in the South Atlantic Ocean, about mid-way between South America and Africa, at the geographic coordinates.

St Helena has a land area of 122 square kilometres and is part of a wider territory called Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha which includes Ascension Island and the island group of Tristan da Cunha.

Ascension Island is warmer and wetter than St Helena.

A natural hazard on Tristan da Cunha is active volcanism, though this is not the case on St Helena itself.

Saint Helena harbours at least 40 species of plants unknown anywhere else in the world, and Ascension is a breeding ground for sea turtles and sooty terns.

The island of St Helena is divided into 8 districts, which are used for electoral and administrative purposes.

This article is about the demographic features of Saint Helena, an island and British overseas territory in the south Atlantic Ocean.

St Helena is the most populous part of the wider territory of Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha.

The church was originally commissioned in 327 CE by Constantine and his mother Helena over the site that is still traditionally considered to be located over the cave that marks the birthplace of Jesus of Nazareth.

Helena is considered a suburb of Birmingham and part of the Birmingham-Hoover Metropolitan Area.

Lopes began to be considered something of a saint, because of his deformities and the fact that he would not leave Saint Helena for any reason.

Along with Emma and a third sister, Pauline, Helena was considered as a second wife for William III of the Netherlands.

Though Helena was the next eldest, she was considered unreliable by Victoria because of her inability to go long without bursting into tears.

The Ascension Crake ( Mundia elpenor ) which disappeared some time before 1700 but was briefly mentioned and described by traveller and hobby naturalist Peter Mundy in 1656 and Aphanocrex podarces, the Saint Helena Swamphen which disappeared before 1600 and has never been encountered by scientists were once considered congeners of A. rogersi.

In addition to these a great variety of questions were considered, from the treatment of Napoleon at Saint Helena to the grievances of the people of Monaco against their prince and the position of the Jews in Austria and Prussia.

St. Helena Island is considered a inland Sea Island and does not have actual frontage on the Atlantic Ocean.

N. Roerich and their sons thought highly of Helena Ivanovna, and considered her a spiritual leader and keeper of family ’ s foundations.

Helena Sickert was the only daughter of the painter Oswald Sickert ( technically of Danish nationality, though he always considered himself German and did not speak Danish ) and the Englishwoman Eleanor Louisa Henry, an illegitimate daughter of astronomer Richard Sheepshanks, a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge and an Irish dancer.

The third fall is represented by the current ninth station, which is not actually located on the Via Dolorosa, instead being located at the entrance to the Ethiopian Orthodox Monastery and the Coptic Orthodox Monastery of Saint Anthony, which together form the roof structure of the subterranean Chapel of Saint Helena in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre ; the Coptic and Ethiopian Orthodox churches split in 1959, and prior to that time the monastic buildings were considered a single Monastery.

Helena Trafford Devereux ( February 2, 1885-November 17, 1975 ) is the founder of The Devereux Foundation and is considered a pioneer in the field of special education.

Shortly after ascending the throne, Queen Helena ordered the massacre of the people she considered responsible for her husband's blinding at an assembly in Arad.

Some of Whorf's unpublished manuscripts on spirituality also suggest that he was influenced by the ideas of Helena Blavatsky the founder of the Theosophical Society who wrote about cosmic evolution, a belief that regards reincarnation to be the source of evolution of human races towards continuously higher forms.

After the excavations of the early 1970s, the Armenian authorities converted this archaeological space into the Chapel of Saint Vartan, and created an artificial walkway over the quarry on the north of the chapel, so that the new Chapel could be accessed ( by permission ) from the Chapel of Saint Helena.

* Chapel of the Invention of the Holy Cross-another set of 22 stairs from the Chapel of Saint Helena leads down to the Roman Catholic Chapel of the Invention of the Holy Cross believed to be the place where the True Cross was found.

Against the background of this erosion, several years of drought and the general dependency of St Helena, in 1715 governor Isaac Pyke ( 1714 – 1719 ) made the serious suggestion to the Company that appreciable savings could be made by moving the population to Mauritius, evacuated by the French in 1710.

The 1988 St Helena Constitution took effect in 1989 and provided that the island would be governed by a Governor and Commander-in-Chief, and an Executive and Legislative Council.

As a result, there will be a pause in negotiations over the St Helena airport contract ".

On this basis, the partly publicly subsidised Media Services, which publish the St Helena Herald and broadcast on Radio St Helena, would no longer be allowed to run advertisements.

The climate of Saint Helena island can be described as tropical, marine and mild, tempered by the Benguela Current and trade winds which blow almost continuously.

This is reported to have primarily been a measure to ensure that the French would not be able to use the islands as a base for a rescue operation to free Napoleon Bonaparte from his prison on Saint Helena.

Domin and Helena fall in love and are engaged to be married.

However, the term continued to be applied to notable models such as Laetitia Casta, Eva Herzigová, Carla Bruni, Tatiana Sorokko ,, Yasmin Le Bon, Shalom Harlow, Nadja Auermann, Helena Christensen, Patricia Velásquez, Adriana Karembeu, and Milla Jovovich.

Upon the death of his stepfather, Neipperg, and the revelation that his mother had borne two illegitimate children to him prior to her marriage, Franz said to his friend, Prokesch von Osten, "' If Josephine had been my mother, my father would not have been buried at Saint Helena, and I should not be at Vienna.

Napoleon was initially interred on Saint Helena, but King Louis-Philippe arranged for his remains to be brought to France in 1840, an event known as le retour des cendres.

Since it is known that Helena ordered the Temple of Venus to the west of the Temple Mount to be torn down to construct the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, presumably she also ordered the Temple of Jupiter on the Temple Mount to be torn down to construct the Church of St. Cyrus and St. John.

The monastery was built by order of Emperor Justinian I ( reigned 527-565 ), enclosing the Chapel of the Burning Bush ordered to be built by Helena, the mother of Constantine I, at the site where Moses is supposed to have seen the burning bush ; the living bush on the grounds is purportedly the original.

* Helena can be used as a unit of measurement, factoring in height and weight

The first women to be appointed as King's Counsel in the United Kingdom were Helena Normanton and Rose Heilbron in 1949.

Allen Christenson, Néstor Quiroa, Rosa Helena Chinchilla Mazariegos, John Woodruff, and Carlos López all consider the Newberry's volume to be Ximénez's one and only " original.

Other characters include Falco's mother, his sisters, their husbands and their never-ending crowd of offspring ; his father Geminus ( the shady antiques dealer ); his two children and their British nursemaid Albia, whom Marcus and Helena have adopted ; Helena's mother and two brothers Aulus Camillus Aelianus and Quintus Camillus Justinianus ; Falco's one-time landlord Smaractus ; the laundry proprietor Lenia, Smaractus ' wife and Falco's former neighbour ; Falco's personal trainer Glaucus ; and various murderers, criminals, exotic dancers, and mangy animals, all of whom spend a great deal of time making Falco's life a little harder than it would be otherwise.

During Reconstruction, railroads would be extended through Helena as part of the post-war development of central Alabama ’ s mineral resources.