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Jeopary Questions page 251 - NBA ROOKIES OF THE YEAR ...  NBA ROOKIES OF THE YEAR: Shaq took the honor in 1993 as a member of this team ... THE HUMAN BODY: The average life span of these receptor cell groups in the mouth is 8-10 days .... HOLIDAYS & OBSERVANCES: Day honoring a martyr beheaded at Rome under the Emperor Claudius; a lovely history it wasn't...
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St. Valentine beheaded - Feb 14, 278 - HISTORY.com  On this day in History, St. Valentine beheaded on Feb 14, 278. ... D., Valentine, a holy priest in Rome in the days of Emperor Claudius II, was executed. ... Valentines, all of them martyrs, are mentioned in the early martyrologies under the date...
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I Wish I'd Spent Valentine's Day Eating A Prix Fixe Dinner, But I Was ...  Feb 10, 2009 ... I hope all this talk about my gruesome martyrdom doesn't put you off your ... officer or a servant of Claudius II during a time when minor offenses ... of marrying Christian couples in the early days of the Roman empire, ... That last part wasn't me! ... They were the corrupt guards of Emperor Claudius, and they...
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Saint Valentine - Wikipedia  Saint Valentine officially Saint Valentine of Terni, is a widely recognized third-century Roman ... Use of the pre-1970 liturgical calendar is also authorized under the ... The name Valentinus does not occur in the earliest list of Roman martyrs, .... a priest, defied the order of the emperor Claudius and secretly married couples so...
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History of Valentine's Day thru historiolingistics  Since Roman Emperors were considered to be demi-Gods, Valentine's action was ... When Claudius the Second discovered Valentine's illicit activities, he first tried to ... Valentines" during such a febrile season were beheaded and martyred on or ... This was dutifully performed in honor of their lovely goddess Juno Februata.
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The facts on crucifixion - Freeminds.org  If the Romans did use two-beamed crosses at the time to execute prisoners, there would ... There were several predecessors to crucifixion in the ancient Near East: ... Other descriptions of this early form of punishment can be found in Livy and ..... the word stauros referred regularly to the Roman method of crucifixion from the...
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Master: Caligula - Middlebury  12 AD, ruled 37-41) was famous for his cruelty and vice and was killed by the praetorian ... 24, AD 41, Roman emperor from 37 to 41, was the son of Germanicus ... asserted that after an illness in October 37 he became mentally unbalanced.
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Nero - Ancient History - HISTORY.com  Perhaps the most infamous of Rome's emperors, Nero Claudius Caesar (37-68 ... lyre while Rome burned in 64 A.D., he certainly didn't play a fiddle: bowed string ... But Nero had learned his mother's lessons well: Brittanicus soon died under...
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Barry Unsworth on the Claudius books of Robert Graves | Books ...  Sep 2, 2006 ... "Cripple, stammerer, fool of the family," as he calls himself. ... there is the account of the assassination of Caligula in 41 AD and the ... Claudius hiding behind a curtain, and his acclamation as the new emperor. ... the surface and were often made manifest in acts of public outrage, .... It is fiction, after all.
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Render Unto Caesar: A Most Misunderstood New Testament ...  Jesus never meant for His answer to be interpreted as an endorsement of ... Because of the mass of pilgrims, the Roman procurator of Judaea, Pontius Pilate, ... Just a few years prior to Jesus' ministry, the image of Caesar nearly .... The coin of the Tribute Episode is a fine specimen of Roman propaganda.
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Ask Me A Trivia Question -- 2 -- - Discussion on Topix  Dec 28, 2011 ... This "I, Claudius" author later set his eye on "The Greek Myths" & "The Hebrew Myths". Is that Graves? Reply . Report Abuse Judge it!
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I, Claudius (Claudius, #1) by Robert Graves  Reviews, Discussion ...  From the Autobiography of Tiberius Claudius, Born 10 B.C., Murdered and ... this colorful story of the life of the Roman emperor Claudius stands as one of the .... in ancient Rome, Julius Caesar began their more than century long reign, as ...... is from Claudius writing a history, this book is heavy on the facts and chronicles of...
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jeopardy/1675_Qs.txt at master  jedoublen/jeopardy  GitHub  VALENTINE | As a prisoner of Emperor Claudius, Valentine's fateful mistake leading to his martyrdom was trying to do this to Claudius | convert him. right: Su.
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Ancient Crucifixion - Background Bible Study (Bible History Online)  Crucifixion did not begin with the Romans, but it was a method of execution that .... Constantine the Great, the first Christian emperor, abolished crucifixion in the Roman Empire in 337 out of veneration for Jesus Christ, its most famous victim.
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Locusta | History Witch  Oct 30, 2014 ... Locusta was probably the first recorded serial killer and/or hired hit-woman. ... Emperor Claudius (so that Agrippina's son, Nero could become Emperor). ... (for poisoning another victim) and set her up to start an assassin school. ... Again, her mad skills were effective, Britannicus died from poisoned wine...
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ASHES AND GLORY - The Washington Post  Apr 3, 1988 ... One day in October, a well-spoken lady named Dolores came to the rectory ... He repeated "very dry" again, referring either to the martini or his ... A funeral like that can leave you feeling sick and forlorn, temporarily ... hoping that he could hear or feel the ancient "last rite" of the church. ... Thank God for ritual.
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Suetonius  Life of Augustus  Mar 6, 2013 ... Furthermore, he is often called Thurinus in Mark Antony's letters by way of ... "After by augury august illustrious Rome had been founded." ..... bribery, and on the encouragement of marriage among the various classes of citizens. ..... to yield her son-inlaw to him; for at that time Agrippa had to wife one of the...
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De Vita Caesarum--Divus Claudius - Internet History Sourcebooks  But the next day, since the Senate was dilatory in putting through its plans .... of high birth, a leading citizen of the province of Hellas, because he did not know Latin, .... partly by leveling and partly by tunneling a mountain, a work of great difficulty ..... When he was still very small, Claudius would often take him in his arms and...
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The ides of March: Julius Caesar is murdered - Mar 15, 44 B.C. ...  Octavian vowedrevenge against the assassins, two years later Cassius and Brutuscommitted suicide after ... Fall of Constantinople .... 44 B.C.. The Ides of March. Gaius Julius Caesar, dictator of Rome, is stabbed to death in the Roman Senate...
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Talk:St. Bartholomew's Day massacre - Wikipedia  Misc Cleanup[edit]. Hmm, just read parts of this article. The bias is clearly discernable and I am .... I can agree that there is a lot more to be said about Catholic-Protestant .... "Background" - forty Huguenots were killed because they refused to kneel in ... Huguenot forces committed random massacres of Catholics, destroyed...
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Pilate Inscription - Biblical Archaeology in Israel (Bible History Online)  Tiberius Caesar, who succeeded Augustus in AD 14, appointed Pontius ... The authority of the Roman procurators varied according to the appointment of the emperor. ... forbidding to pay taxes to Caesar, saying that He Himself is Christ, a King. ... Pilate did not want to be responsible for the death of Jesus, and he would not...