She is also the god-daughter of director Steven Spielberg, and Sophia Loren.

Those of Hagia Sophia at Constantinople, of the 8th and 9th century, are wrought in bronze, and the west doors of the cathedral of Aix-la-Chapelle ( 9th century ), of similar manufacture, were probably brought from Constantinople, as also some of those in St. Marks, Venice.

Leade was hugely influenced by the theosophical writings of 16th century German Christian mystic Jakob Böhme, who also speaks of the Sophia in works such as The Way to Christ.

They also practiced forms of Esoteric Christianity, Mysticism ( Christian mysticism ), and Rapp often spoke of the virgin spirit or Goddess named Sophia in his writings.

In France, there was also feminist activity inside individualist anarchism as promoted by individualist feminists Marie Küge, Anna Mahé, Rirette Maitrejean, and Sophia Zaïkovska.

His reign also marked a blossoming of Byzantine culture, and his building program yielded such masterpieces as the church of Hagia Sophia, which was to be the center of Eastern Orthodox Christianity for many centuries.

Justinian also rebuilt the Church of Hagia Sophia ( which cost 20, 000 pounds of gold ), the original site having been destroyed during the Nika riots.

Examples include the font at St. Mary's Church, Nottingham and also the font in the basilica of St. Sophia, Constantinople, the font of St. Stephen d ' Egres, Paris ; at St. Menin's Abbey, Orléans ; at Dulwich College ; and at the following churches: Worlingworth ( Suffolk ), Harlow ( Essex ), Knapton ( Norfolk ), St Martin, Ludgate ( London ), and Hadleigh ( Suffolk ).

A daughter of Frederick V, Elector Palatine, and Elizabeth Stuart, also known as the " Winter King and Queen of Bohemia " for their short rule in that country, Sophia was born in The Wassenaer Hof, The Hague, Dutch Republic, where her parents fled into exile after the Battle of White Mountain. She was also the granddaughter of James VI of Scotland., At birth, Sophia was granted an annuity of 40 thalers by the Estates of Friesland.

Dirk Van der Cruysse: Sophie de Hanovre, Memoires et Lettres de Voyage, Fayard Paris, 1990 ; also Sophia of Hanover: From Winter Princess to Heiress of Great Britain, J. N.

It was also argued that such a course was necessary to ensure Sophia's succession, for Anne's Roman Catholic half-brother was significantly closer to London than Sophia.

He also had two sisters, one older ( Kirstine Brahe ) and one younger ( Sophia Brahe ).

Subsequently, Leopold V's younger son, Leopold VI, also married a Byzantine princess ( Theodora Angelina ), as did his youngest son ( by Theodora ), Frederick II, who married Sophia Laskarina.

One of these daughters, Sophia Churchill, married Horatio Walpole, a great grandson of Robert Walpole and Mary Burwell who was also descended from the 1st Baron Burghley.

The Hagia Sophia is also undergoing restoration.

Zeno succeeded in bribing Armatus too, promising to confirm his rank of magister militum praesentalis for life and promoting his son ( also called Basiliscus ) to the rank of Caesar ; Armatus ' army did not intercept Zeno's troops marching on Constantinople, and the lack of Theodoric Strabo and his army decided the fate of Basiliscus, who fled with his family in the church of Hagia Sophia.

He was also the grandfather of Henrik von Siemens and the great grandfather of Sophia and Philippa von Siemens.

Adolf Frederick was also a 13th-generation descendant of Erik V of Denmark ; a 13th-generation descendant of Sophia of Denmark and Valdemar I of Sweden ; and an 11th-generation descendant of Euphemia of Sweden, Duchess of Mecklenburg and her husband the duke Albrecht.

He was also the author of rhetorical exercises on philosophical themes ; of a Quadrivium ( arithmetic, music, geometry, astronomy ), valuable for the history of music and astronomy in the Middle Ages ; a general sketch of Aristotelian philosophy ; a paraphrase of the speeches and letters of Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite ; poems, including an autobiography ; and a description of the square of the Augustaeum, and the column erected by Justinian in the church of Hagia Sophia to commemorate his victories over the Persians.

Nilsson's next album, Harry ( 1969 ), was his first to hit the charts, and also provided a Top 40 single with " I Guess the Lord Must Be in New York City " ( written as a contender for the theme to Midnight Cowboy ), used in the Sophia Loren movie La Mortadella ( 1971 ) ( US title: Lady Liberty ).

After the death of his first consort, Maria of Tver ( 1467 ), and at the suggestion of Pope Paul II ( 1469 ), who hoped thereby to bind Russia to the Holy See, Ivan III wedded Sophia Paleologue ( also known under her original Greek and Orthodox name of Zoe ), daughter of Thomas Palaeologus, despot of Morea, who claimed the throne of Constantinople as the brother of Constantine XI, the last Byzantine emperor.

He also had a small part in the Anglo-Italian production Brief Encounter, featuring Richard Burton and Sophia Loren in the main roles, which was part of the Hallmark Hall of Fame series on the American NBC channel.

When it was completed, Sinan claimed that it had the largest dome in the world, leaving Hagia Sophia behind.

Following the 1595-96 Union of Brest, the Cathedral of Saint Sophia belonged to the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church until it was claimed by the Moldavian Orthodox metropolitan Peter Mogila ( Mohyla ) in 1633.

But still protected the merciful, man-loving God us and sheltered us from the foreign people, and the word came to Novgorod that Swedes were sailing to Ladoga ; but prince Alexander did not hesitate at all, but went against them with Novgorodians and people of Ladoga and overcame them with the help of Saint Sophia and through prayers of our lady, the Mother of God and Virgin Mary, July 15, in the memory of Kirik and Ulita, on Sunday, ( the same day that ) the 630 holy fathers held a meeting in Chalcedon ; and there was a great gathering of the Swedes ; and their leader called Spiridon was killed there ; but some claimed that even the bishop was slain ; and a great number of them fell ; and when they had loaded two ships with the bodies of high-born men, they let them sail to the sea ; but the others, that were unnumbered, they cast to a pit, that they buried, and many others were wounded ; and that same night they fled, without waiting for the Monday light, with shame.

Two months prior to giving birth, Sophia claimed she instinctively knew it would be a girl and chose the name Rose.

Paris editions of opus 2 published by Pleyell only bear the name Dussek, leading Zabaleta to his misattribution, but nobody actually claimed opus 2 as the work of JL rather than Sophia before the mid 20thC.

With the birth of the Turkish Republic after the First World War, St. Sophia became a museum, and the ancient mosaics, which were plastered over by the Moslems, whose religion forbids pictures in holy places, have been restored.

Sophia, a granddaughter of James VI and I, died less than two months before she would have become queen ; her claim to the thrones passed on to her eldest son, George Louis, Elector of Hanover, who ascended them as George I on 1 August 1714 Old Style.

This friendship resulted in a substantial correspondence, first published in the nineteenth century ( Klopp 1973 ), that reveals Sophia to have been a woman of exceptional intellectual ability and curiosity.

Sophia was made heiress presumptive for the purpose of cutting off any claim by the Roman Catholic James Francis Edward Stuart, who would otherwise have become James III & VIII, as well as denying the throne to many other Roman Catholics and spouses of Roman Catholics who held a claim.

The act restricts the British throne to the " Protestant heirs " of Sophia of Hanover who have never been Roman Catholic and who have never married a Roman Catholic.

Anne might have been aware that Sophia, who was active and lively despite her old age, could cut a better figure than herself.

Had Anne died before June 1714, Sophia would have been the oldest person to ascend to the British throne.

They have in common the place in the work of creation assigned to the female principle, the conception of the Deity ; the ignorance of the rulers of this lower world with regard to the Supreme Power ; the descent of the female ( Sophia ) into the lower regions, and her inability to return.

In 1997 Enfield married Lucy Lyster and they have one son, Archie Edward ( born 1997 ) and two daughters, Poppy Sophia ( born 1999 ) and Nell Florence ( born 2003 ).

If Anne should have no descendants, she would be succeeded by Sophia of Hanover and her descendants ( hence the Hanoverian Succession in 1714 ).

However, the conspiracy was resolved by the death of the princess, rumoured to have been poisoned by Queen Sophia.

In the winter of the same year, Theodore's brother Joseph visited him in Constantinople, but refused to attend the Christmas mass in Hagia Sophia, at which the emperor, the patriarch, and the priest Joseph would have been present.

George's surviving uncle, George William of Celle, had married his mistress in order to legitimise his only daughter, Sophia Dorothea of Celle, but looked unlikely to have any further children.

The same year, George married his first cousin, Sophia Dorothea of Celle, thereby securing additional incomes that would have been outside Salic laws requiring male inheritance.

Succession is by male-preference primogeniture governed by both the Act of Settlement, 1701, and Bill of Rights, 1689, legislation that limits the succession to the natural ( i. e. non-adopted ), legitimate descendants of Sophia of Hanover and stipulates that the monarch cannot be a Roman Catholic, nor married to one, and must be in communion with the Church of England upon ascending the throne ; these particular clauses have prompted legal challenge.

After narrowly surviving the birth and death of her last baby, Sophia, in 1607, Anne ’ s decision to have no more children may have widened the gulf between her and James.

Theophanes the Confessor records that Leo IV died as a result of a fever brought on from the precious stones in a crown taken from the Hagia Sophia ; some scholars have indicated that upon his accession to the throne Leo was already sick, while others believe Leo was murdered by persons unknown, though Irene is suspected.

* Christopher Lekapenos, co-emperor from 921 to 931, who was married to the Augusta Sophia and was the father of Maria ( renamed Eirene ), who married Emperor Peter I of Bulgaria ; Christopher's son Michael Lekapenos may have been associated as co-emperor by his grandfather.

Other famous visitors to the Áras an Uachtaráin have been Princess Grace of Monaco and her husband, Prince Rainier III ; King Baudouin of the Belgians ; King Juan Carlos and Queen Sophia ; Pope John Paul II ; Prince Charles, and Prince Philip.

The gardens and palace have been the location for various movies, such as the Sissi trilogy in 1950s, in A Breath of Scandal with Sophia Loren and briefly in James Bond's The Living Daylights ( 1987 ) as a hotel where Bond ( Timothy Dalton ) was staying on a mission.

Domes that have been disproportionately influential in later architecture are those of the Pantheon in Rome, Hagia Sophia in Constantinople ( modern Istanbul ), and the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem.

Prominent Italian directors and actors that have worked with Totò include Mario Monicelli, Alberto Lattuada, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Eduardo De Filippo, Peppino de Filippo, Aldo Fabrizi, Vittorio De Sica, Sophia Loren, Claudia Cardinale, Marcello Mastroianni, and Alberto Sordi.

* Lady Bellaston ( Tom's lover and a leading figure in London society, who tries to force Sophia into marriage to a Lord by having her raped by him, so she would have Jones to herself )