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  • Pope Saint Stephen I served as bishop of Rome from May 12, 254 to ... According to the most ancient lists, Stephen I was a Roman by birth ...
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  • reflecting the uses of the Romans (and ancient Greeks) to use lavender ... and scent. The plant has been grown since ancient times in perfumery, and ...
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  • Glastonbury is a small English town famed for its ancient monastic ... :"And did those feet in ancient time walk upon England’s mountains ...
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  • Still-life paintings were found on the walls of ancient Egyptian tombs ... Still-life paintings adorned the walls of ancient Egyptian tombs. ...
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  • prosperity accrued from economic trade with Rome, India, and elsewhere, but ... The ancient African civilization of Axum flourished for over a thousand ...
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  • quot;) is the name for a site of ancient palaces and fortifications ... Josephus has Elazer admitting that it had been wrong to resist Rome ...
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  • Cassius Longinus. Born in Tyre, he went to Rome in 262 C.E. and studied under ... purple dye in Tyre. In 262 C.E. he came to Rome and studied under Plotinus ...
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  • a prominent city of the Roman Empire. The ancient city's most famous ... important cities. Leptis Magna weakened as Rome weakened. It fell under control ...
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  • presided over the celebrations marking Rome's one thousandth anniversary ... Alexander Severus, who was a Syrian. In ancient Rome the Pretorian Guard was ...
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  • besieged Desiderius, Charlemagne visited Rome where he celebrated Easter ... two more occasions. In 781, he visited Rome with his wife and his son ...
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  • and architect of seventeenth-century Rome. The son of a Mannerist sculptor ... Fontana dei Quattro Fiumi in the Piazza Navona Rome. ==Early Life== ...
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  • manage the German Archaeological Institute in Rome. le Mérite in 1868, honorary citizenship of Rome, and the Nobel prize for literature ...
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  • inscriptions, and carvings. First used in Ancient Egypt and Ancient Greece ... regarding the lives of those who lived in ancient times. Often decorated with ...
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  • The book was originally written in Rome, in the Greek language, but ... :"He who brought me up sold me to a certain Rhoda, who was at ...
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  • contribution to our knowledge of ancient Egypt. Untrained in archaeological ... barber. His family was originally from Rome, and he spent most of his ...
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  • the design of which originated in Ancient Rome. The word now refers to ... The first catacombs constructed in the world are the ancient Jewish ...
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  • soaked foods were part of daily life in Ancient Rome (Kurlansky 2002). Cleopatra ... and Vegetables: A Global Perspective. Rome: Food and Agriculture Organization ...
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  • was followed by the Acacian schism, between Rome and Constantinople, which ... to the Henotikon, but Pope Felix III of Rome condemned it and excommunicated ...
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  • of Paul's imprisonments, probably at Rome in the early 60s C.E., though ... accepted by virtually all Bible scholars, ancient and modern. Some critical ...
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  • world, including two journeys to Rome. Plutarch studied philosophy ... of Achaea, and journeys to Alexandria and Rome. He had a number of influential ...
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