Kirellos VI of Alexandria - Kirellos VI of Alexandria Kirellos VI of Alexandria (born Azzer Yousef Atta), was Coptic Orthodox Patriarch of Alexandria (1959 - 1971). Also known as Pope Cyril VI (Kirellos is Arabic for Cyril). He was born on August 8, 1902, in Damanhour, Egypt to Christian parents. He resigned a civil service position to become a monk in July 1927. He passed his probationary period, and on February 24, 1928 took his monastic vows and assumed the name Mina El-Baramosy. In 1947, he built the Church of Saint Mina the Martyr in the Coptic quarter of Cairo. He became Pope of Alexandria, on May 10, 1959 (Coptic calendar: 2nd of Beshans, 1675). On June 28, 1959 he appointed Archbishop Gathlik for Ethiopia. In November 1959 he laid the foundation stone.
Isidore of Alexandria - Isidore of Alexandria Isidore of Alexandria, Greek philosopher and one of the last of the Neoplatonists, lived in Athens and Alexandria towards the end of the 5th century AD. He became head of the school in Athens in succession to Marinus who followed Proclus. His views alienated the chief members of the school and he was compelled to resign his position to Hegias. He is known principally as the preceptor of Damascius whose testimony to him in the Life of Isidorus presents him in a very favourable light as a man and a thinker. It is generally admitted, however, that he was rather an enthusiast than a thinker; reasoning with him was subsidiary to inspiration, and he preferred the theories of Pythagoras and Plato to the unimaginative.
Hero of Alexandria - Hero of Alexandria Hero (or Heron) of Alexandria (roughly A.D. 10 to roughly A.D. 70) was a Greek engineer and geometer. His most famous invention was the first documented steam engine, the aeolipile. He is said to have been a follower of the Atomists. Some of his ideas were derived from the works of Ctesibius. A number of references mention dates around 150 BC, but these are inconsistent with the dates of his publications and inventions. Perhaps this is due to a misinterpretation of the phrase "first century". Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Publications 2 Projects 3 References Publications The complete surviving works are: Pneumatica (Greek, c. A.D. 60) Automata (Greek) Mechanics (Arabic) Metrics (Arabic) Dioptra (Arabic) In optics, Hero proposed that light travels along the shortest.
Hesychius of Alexandria - Hesychius of Alexandria Hesychius of Alexandria, a grammarian of Alexandria, (probably flourished 5th century CE) compiled the richest lexicon of unusual and obscure Greek words that has survived. The work includes approximately 51,000 entries, a copious list of peculiar words, forms and phrases, with an explanation of their meaning, and often with a reference to the author who used them or to the district of Greece where they were current. Hence the book is of great value to the student of the Greek dialects; while in the restoration of the text of the classical authors generally, and particularly of such writers as Aeschylus and Theocritus, who used many unusual words, its value can hardly be exaggerated. Hesychius is important, not only for Greek philology but also for.
Hierocles of Alexandria - Hierocles of Alexandria Hierocles of Alexandria, Neoplatonist writer, flourished c. AD 430. He studied under the celebrated Neoplatonist Plutarch at Athens, and taught for some years in his native city. He seems to have been banished from Alexandria and to have taken up his abode in Constantinople, where he gave such offence by his religious opinions that he was thrown into prison and cruelly flogged. The only complete work of his which has been preserved is the commentary on the Carmina Aurea of Pythagoras. It enjoyed a great reputation in middle age and Renaissance times, and there are numerous translations in various European languages. Several other writings, especially one on providence and fate, a consolatory treatise dedicated to his patron Olympiodorus of Thebes, are quoted or referred.
Hypatia of Alexandria - Hypatia of Alexandria Hypatia of Alexandria (c. 370 - 415) was a neo-Platonic philosopher and mathematician, who was murdered by Christian monks. Several works are attributed to her by later sources, including commentaries on Diophantus's Arithmetica, on Apollonius's Conics and on Ptolemy's works, but none have survived. She was the daughter of Theon, the last fellow of the Museum of Alexandria, which was adjacent to or included the main Library of Alexandria. Hypatia did not teach in the Museum, but received her pupils in her own private home. Theophilus, the patriarch of Alexandria, had destroyed all "pagan temples" in the city in 391 (as requested by a decree of the Emperor Theodosius), which may have included the Museum and certainly included the Serapeum (a temple and "daughter.
Eusebius of Alexandria - Eusebius of Alexandria Eusebius of Alexandria, an author to whom are attributed certain extant homilies which enjoyed some renown in the Eastern Church in the sixth and seventh centuries. Their homiletical merit does not rise above mediocrity, and nothing is known of the author. At all events, he was not a patriarch of Alexandria, as is affirmed in as early biography (MPG, lxxxvi. 1, pp. 297-310), written by one Johannes, a notary, and stating that Eusebius was called by Cyril to be his successor in the episcopate. The discourses belong probably to the fifth or sixth century, and possibly originated in Alexandria. They deal with the life of the Lord and with questions of ecclesiastical life and practise, which they resolve in a monastic-ascetic way. Their literary.
Dioscorus of Alexandria - Dioscorus of Alexandria Dioscorus (died c.454), was patriarch of Alexandria (444 - 451), receiving consecration, according to one report (Mansi, vii. 603), from two bishops only. It is difficult to harmonize the accounts of his character. Theodoret, whose testimony in his favor cannot be suspected, writes to Dioscorus, soon after Dioscurus' consecration, that the fame of his virtues, and particularly of his modesty and humility, was widely known (Ep. 60). He had served as Cyril's archdeacon. Liberatus says that he had never been married. On the other hand, after he had involved himself in the Monophysite heresy, he was accused of serious misconduct in the first years of his episcopate. The deacon Ischyrion, Cyril's nephew Athanasius, and one Sophronius all recounted his misconduct: misapropriation of money, associating.
Demetrius of Alexandria - Demetrius of Alexandria Demetrias was Patriarch of Alexandria (189 - 232). Sextus Julius Africanus, who visited Alexandria in the time of Demetrius, places his accession as eleventh bishop after Mark in the tenth year of Commodus; Eusebius' statement that it tenth of Severus (Historia Ecclesiastica, VI, 2) is a mistake. The Catholic Encyclopedia states, "Demetrius is the first Alexandrian bishop of whom anything is known." While Jerome claimed that Demetrius sent Pantaenus on a mission to India, it is likely that Clement had succeeded Pantaenus as the head of the Catechetical School before the accession of Demetrius. When Clement retired (c. 203), Demetrius appointed Origen, who was in his eighteenth year, as Clement's successor. While Demetrius was a scholar in his own right, taking part in the.
Vespasian - and reformer of abuses, Vespasian had a soldiery thoroughly devoted to him. All eyes in the East were now upon him; Mucianus and the Syrian legions were eager to support him; and while he was at Caesarea, he was proclaimed emperor (July 1, 69), first by the army in Egypt, and then by his troops in Judaea (July 11). Nevertheless, Vitellius, the occupant of the throne, had on his side the veteran legions of Gaul and the Rhineland, Rome's best troops. But the feeling in Vespasian's favour quickly gathered strength, and the armies of Moesia, Pannonia and Illyricum soon declared for him, and made him in fact master of half of the Roman world. His troops entered Italy on the north-east under the leadership of Antonius Primus, defeated the army of.
Karsten Niebuhr - the expedition which was being sent out by Frederick V of Denmark for the scientific exploration of Egypt, Arabia and Syria. To qualify himself for the work of surveyor and geographer, he studied hard at mathematics for a year and a half before the expedition set out, and also managed to acquire some knowledge of Arabic. The expedition sailed in January 1761, and, landing at Alexandria, ascended the Nile. Proceeding to Suez, Niebuhr made a visit to Mount Sinai, and in October 1762 the expedition sailed from Suez to Jeddah, journeying thence overland to Mocha. Here in May 1763 the philologist of the expedition, van Haven, died, and was followed shortly after by the naturalist Forsskål. Sana, the capital of Yemen, was visited, but the remaining members of the expedition suffered.
Vedea - Danube, having a total length of 224 km, of which on 33 km the river is regulated. It flows in the Olt and Teleorman counties and the towns Alexandria and Roşiori de Vede are near the river. Vedea is the infinitive of the verb "to view" in Romanian..
Vere Gordon Childe - drawn to an overarching theory of hsitory which explained everything as a result of the changes in the modes of production. It was clear that early humans were hunter gatherers, and that civilisation had arisen when they had first developed agriculture and then concentrated populations in cities. Further developmemts in civilisation (Childe did concentrate his attention on Europe and the Near East, despite the occasional excursus) could be explained with reference to the changes in technology that occurred, which were accessible from the archaeological record. Childe was unusual in emphasising the Hellenistic period as the apex of Graeco-Roman civilisation, rather than the world of Athens in the 5th century BC, or that of the Roman Empire. In the Hellenized eastern Mediterranean, and particularly at Alexandria he saw the culmination of classical.
Khobar Towers bombing - Towers, part of a housing complex for military personnel.On June 21, 2001 an indictment was issued in U.S. District Court in Alexandria, Virginia charging the following people with with murder, conspiracy, and other changes related to the bombing. Ahmed Ibrahim Al-Mughassil Abdelkarim Hussein Mohamed Al-Nasser Ali Saed Bin Ali El-Hoorie Ibrahim Salih Mohammed al-Yacoub Nine other Saudiss One Lebanese man..
Kidinnu - 29.53059414...d is also attributed to him; it was confirmed by Hipparchus and used by Ptolemy and later astronomers. Kidinnu probably introduced the 19-year cycle known as the Metonic cycle into the Babylonian calendar in 383 BC. In this system each year had 12 lunar months, and 7 extra months were inserted at intervals during the 19-year period. This cycle, with the value for the mean synodic month, was later adopted for the Hebrew calendar and has remained in use until today. Chaldean astronomers had also found changes of the apparent lunar diameter. They had ascertained that the lunar diameter changes from 29' 30" to 34' 16". Actual values are 29' 30" and 32' 55", which are very close. It is not known yet if they knew about the changes of apparent.
Knidos - antiquity and probably of Lacedaemonian colonization. Along with Halicarnassus and Kos, and the Rhodian cities of Lindos, Kamiros and Ialyssos it formed the Dorian Hexapolis, which held its confederate assemblies on the Triopian headland, and there celebrated games in honour of Apollo, Poseidon and the nymphs. The city was at first governed by an oligarchic senate, composed of sixty members, and presided over by a magistrate; but, though it is proved by inscriptions that the old names continued to a very late period, the constitution underwent a popular transformation. The situation of the city was favourable for commerce, and the Knidians acquired considerable wealth, and were able to colonize the island of Lipara, and founded the city of Corcyra Nigra in the Adriatic. They ultimately submitted to Cyrus, and from the.
Jason - death of Apsyrtus. Sirens Chiron had told Jason that without the aid of Orpheus, the Argonauts would never be able to pass the Sirens. The Sirens lived on three small, rocky islands called Sirenum scopuli and sang beautiful songs that enticed sailors to come to them. They then ate the sailors. When Orpheus heard their voices, he withdrew his lyre and played his music more beautifully than they, drowning out their music. Talos The Argo then came to the island of Crete, guarded by the bronze man, Talos. Talos had one vein which went from his neck to his ankle, bound shut by only one bronze nail. Medea cast a spell on Talos to calm him; she removed the bronze nail and Talos bled to death. The Argo landed. Jason Returns.
Jacob Baradaeus - much difficulty convinced to leave his monastery for Constantinople. Arriving at the imperial city, he was received with much honor by Theodora. But the splendor of the court had no attractions for him, and he retired to one of the monasteries of the city, where he lived as a complete recluse. While he dwelled at Constantinople - 15 years, according to John of Ephesus - the Monophysite body suffered greatly. Justinian had resolved to enforce the decrees of the Council of Chalcedon, and those bishops and clergy who refused to obey these decrees Justinian punished with imprisonment, deprivation, and exile. Whole districts of Syria and the adjacent countries were thus deprived of their pastors, and the Monophysites were threatened with gradual extinction. For ten years many churches had been destitute of.
Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity - the Operations side is also represented. [2]class="external">[1 Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 VIPS Steering Group 2 Other Apparent VIPS Members 3 Correspondence 4 News Stories 5 Contact 6 External Links VIPS Steering Group Richard Beske, San Diego, CA William Christison, Santa Fe, NM Patrick G. Eddington, Alexandria, VA David MacMichael, Linden, VA Raymond McGovern, Arlington, VA Kathleen McGrath Christison, Santa Fe, NM Other Apparent VIPS Members Eugene Betit[1] Ray Close[1] Correspondence 7 February 2003: VIPS MEMORANDUM sent to President George Walker Bush (published in Common Dreams). 15 February 2003: VIPS: "CIA says NO. U.S. Intelligence Officers Say Bush Out of His Mind on Iraq War" by Ray McGovern for NowToronto.com. 16 March 2003: VIPS MEMORANDUM: "Memorandum for Confused Americans. Cooking Intelligence for War" posted at LI Politics Message Board Forum by.
James Andrew Broun-Ramsay, 10th Earl of Dalhousie - of tea, in his protection of forests, in the preservation of ancient and historic monuments. With the object of improving civil administration, he closed the useless college in Calcutta for the education of young civilians, establishing in its place a proper system of training them in mufasal stations, and subjecting them to departmental examinations. He was equally careful of the well-being of the European soldier, providing him with healthy recreations and public gardens. To the civil service he gave improved leave and pension rules, while he purified its moral by forbidding all share in trading concerns, by vigorously punishing insolvents, and by his personal example of careful selection in the matter of patronage. As a comprehensive view of the constitution of the Indian government, dealing with the functions of its various.
