Word: valentinian
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Zeke Mazur thinks that his wife and co-director, Aleksandra Makarova, a graduate student in Linguistics, should abandon her studies altogether to pursue her love for filmmaking. The two submitted a short scholarly film entitled “The Origins of Evil in Valentinian Agnosticism,” which explores one interpretation of “how worldly evil derived from the use of divine suffering...
...Both later accepted. Ambrose, at 35, had not been baptized when he was sent in 374 by the Roman Emperor Valentinian to address an assembly of Christians gathered at Milan to elect a bishop. His speech impressed the meeting. A child cried out: "Ambrose-bishop," and the meeting elected him by acclamation. Gregory (not to be confused with 16 Popes of that name) first refused, then accepted, the bishopric of Sasima. Later he took over his father's duties as Bishop of Nazianzus in Asia Minor, but he never accepted formal installation in that see. In 1808 the Pope...
...reign of the Emperor Valentinian, there occurred in an obscure part of the heavens, an explosion to which the eruption of Vesuvius was but as the striking of a match. Columbus discovered America and Washington fought the Revolution in complete ignorance of the cataclysm. Not until the year of grace 1934 did J. P. M. Prentice of Stowmarket, England, first observe the results of the convulsion, known to men as Nova Herculis. Over 10,000 observations of its progress have been made since, according to Leon Campbell instructor in Astronomy at the Observatory...
...15OO years ago Valentinian III was Emperor of Rome, Attila the Hun was preparing to invade Gaul...
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