Word: eusebius
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...According to the historian Eusebius, in 312 A.D. the Emperor Constantine saw a flaming cross and the legend, in Greek, "By this conquer," in the noonday sky near Rome. It is said to have led to his conversion to Christianity...
...state. Draping himself in his finery as a Masonic Grand Master, he repaired to a rude country crossroads where the local citizenry had provided free land for a college. There he was aided in laying the cornerstone of what is now East Hall by his fellow Princetonian Samuel Eusebius McCorkle, who hoped to see the land "adorned with an elegant village...
Chicago-born Alfred Wallenstein is the fifth-great-grandnephew of famed General Albrecht Wenzel Eusebius von Wallenstein, who made history by his fighting in the Thirty Years' War, which ruined Europe a good bit more than World War II to date. When he was eight, Alfred asked for a bicycle, could find none with a coaster brake, so picked a shiny cello in Lyon & Healy's window. He became a prodigy, at 15 toured with Dancer Anna Pavlova, later played with the San Francisco and Chicago Symphony Orchestras, was first cellist of the New York Philharmonic-Symphony under...