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Word: justinian (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Suleimaniye Mosque, Istanbul (174 ft.). Suleiman the Magnificent's reply to Justinian's Hagia Sophia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Our Evolving Culture | 12/31/1999 | See Source »

...keep one step ahead of the students and teach myself about African empires and the Justinian Code, I think back to all the failed Faculty debates on including History 10a and 10b in the Core, all the swirling chatter about "methods and approaches to knowledge," and I wonder: To what end the self-righteous administrators' smugness at keeping the Core untainted by survey courses, if I hold a degree from Harvard and cannot call myself liberally educated...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Letters | 9/24/1998 | See Source »

THOSE WHO WOULD MAKE DIVORCE MORE difficult to obtain should know that this approach was tried before with disastrous results. In the middle of the 6th century A.D., the Roman Emperor Justinian I outlawed no-fault divorce in his famous Digest. For hundreds of years before that action, Romans had both divorce for cause and no-fault divorce. Justinian, as a good Christian, felt that it was his duty to curtail the loose practice of divorce and thereby bring law into closer conformity with the Gospels. The Romans, many of whom at that time were not Christians, were so incensed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 20, 1995 | 3/20/1995 | See Source »

...Whosoever toucheth the mount shall surely be put to death," said the Lord. For over 3,000 years, the occupiers of the Sinai peninsula, from Justinian to the Prophet Muhammed to Abdel Nasser and Golda Meir, took the site under their protection. Mount Sinai is enclosed in a convective divinity that is primitive and powerful. The mountain seems to gather thousands of years into a prismatic clarity. The Egyptian Ministry of Housing and Reconstruction, however, is not awed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Trashing Mount Sinai | 3/19/1990 | See Source »

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