Word: theodosius
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...political tour of the country. He had been struck and buffeted by Menderes mobs on a trip through Turkey's Aegean provinces (TIME, May n). He had returned to Istanbul to find a crowd of Menderes partisans waiting at the ruined 5th century city walls built by Theodosius II. The mob charged Inonu's car, smashed in one of its windows with heavy rocks. Led by Republican members of the nation's Grand National Assembly, Inonu supporters counterattacked, and soon the place was a mass of brawling citizens, club-swinging cops and bayonet-wielding soldiers...
...displayed a recent picture of the same region. The picture showed five stars, two of which may be newborn. The light from the new stars, of course, took 1,600 years to reach the earth, so the stars were actually born about the same time as the Roman Emperor Theodosius, and as far as any earthling knows, they may have long since gone...
...years their priests grew fat on the votive offerings of well-heeled worshipers. Ulysses reportedly was a member of the cult; so was L. Calpurnius Piso, father-in-law of Julius Caesar. But in 395 A.D. the worship of the Great Gods was suppressed by the Christian Emperor Theodosius, and their temples were abandoned...
...floor stood a "float": a block of stone with a handle on it, that was used to smooth stonework or stucco. Archaeologist Lehmann likes to think that the float was in use when Emperor Theodosius' edict (and probably the Emperor's soldiers) arrived in the sacred valley, and that it has remained there ever since the day the Great Gods died...