Word: hadrian
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...arms, the fighting mounted to a furious climax. All day, heavy, devastating shelling from British 25-pounders and guerrilla 75-mm. guns crisscrossed between British headquarters at the eastern foot of the Acropolis and the ELAS citadels in the Stadium area, in the park east of the Arch of Hadrian and the Temple of Zeus. Both sides were still trying hard not to damage monuments that had survived 2,000 years of human havoc. As the eighth bloody day ended, ELAS still held the port of Piraeus (the Allied food ships had anchored, for safety, outside the harbor), and most...
...could not understand their sense of values. They were indifferent to costly articles, but gave her a week's supply of food for an old leather album of her family's photographs. After her escape to England, she wrote a historical novel, Young Catherine, a biography of Hadrian, The English Pope, a study, The Catholic Church in Russia, and her moving autobiography that won the $5,000 Little, Brown nonfiction prize...
...utilitarian memorial would be undignified. The temple at its proposed location will complete the fifth focal point of Major Pierre L'Enfant's famed 18th-Century plan of Washington, the Capitol, Washington Monument, Lincoln Memorial and White House forming the other four. Emperor Hadrian's Pantheon was dear to Thomas Jefferson. Monticello, his own home, and the Rotunda of the University of Virginia are adaptations of its design...
...Wellesley's Professor William Alexander Campbell, backed by three museums and one university, reached the spot, the peasant had smashed up his find. But Digger Campbell went ahead to unearth greater treasures: a Greek theatre with an 80-ft. stage which inscriptions indicated was built by the Roman Emperor Hadrian, a life-size alabaster statue, probably of Hadrian, and a villa with remarkable mosaic floors. One design, composed of glass cubes tinted in pastel shades, showed a male and a female figure, representing Autumn and Harvest, reclining on a couch where they were served by a personification of Wine. "Among...
...Magazine by "Baron Corvo" telling how he was once buried alive resulted in a vitriolic newspaper attack in which his history and pretensions were reviewed. This was the second step in his persecution complex. But Stories Toto Told Me (first published in The Yellow Book), In His Own Image, Hadrian the Seventh, Don Tarquinio, Chronicles of the House of Borgia and his translation (from the French translation) of Omar Khayyam won him friends and literary recognition, although he made only about...