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Byzantium The Lost Empire full documentary by John Romer

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Updated: 17 Sep 2014

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Fall of The Roman Empire...in the 15th Century: Crash Course World History #12

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Updated: 13 Apr 2012

Crash Course World History is now available on DVD! Visit http://dft.ba/-CCWHDVD to buy a set for your home or classroom. You can directly support Crash Course at http://www.subbable.com/crashcourse Subscribe for as little as $0 to keep up with everything we're doing. Free is nice, but if you can afford to pay a little every month, it really helps us to continue producing this content. In which John Green teaches you about the fall of the Roman Empire, which happened considerably later than you may have been told. While the Western Roman Empire fell to barbarians in 476 CE, the Byzantines in Constantinople continued the Eastern Empire nicely, calling themselves Romans for a further 1000 years. Find out what Justinian and the rest of the Byzantine emperors were up to over there, and how the Roman Empire dragged out its famous Decline well into medieval times. In addition to all this, you'll learn about ancient sports riots and hipster barbarians, too. Follow us! @thecrashcourse @realjohngreen @raoulmeyer @crashcoursestan @saysdanica @thoughtbubbler Like us! ‪http://www.facebook.com/youtubecrashcourse Follow us again! ‪http://thecrashcourse.tumblr.com Support CrashCourse on Subbable: http://subbable.com/crashcourse

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Byzantine Empire: Justinian and Theodora I - From Swineherd to Emperor - Extra History

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Updated: 20 Jun 2015

Support us on Patreon! http://bit.ly/EHPatreon Watch the Justinian and Theodora series! http://bit.ly/1J89hPd Subscribe for new episodes every Saturday! http://bit.ly/SubToEC Follow us on Facebook! http://bit.ly/ECFBPage Follow us on Twitter! http://bit.ly/ECTweet Follow us on Twitch! http://bit.y/ECTwitch ____________ Justinian arose from humble roots, the nephew of an illiterate pig farmer named Justin. Justin joined the army and rose to become leader of the palace guard, then took his nephew under his wing and made sure that he was well educated. When Emperor Anastasius died, Justin used his position (and his standing army inside Constantinople) to claim the crown for himself. His nephew guided the early years of his reign, helping Justin secure support both in the capitol and abroad. When Justin died, rule of the Byzantine Empire passed to the young Justinian, who had grand ambitions to restore its waning glory. It also freed him to marry Theodora, a famous actress who was far beneath his social station, and who would also rise from her humble beginnings to become a revered empress. ____________ Get the intro music here! http://bit.ly/1EQA5N7 *Music by Demetori: http://bit.ly/1AaJG4H Get the outro music here! http://bit.ly/1NbpIcd __________ Extra History - Zulu Empire Shaka Zulu Becomes King: http://bit.ly/1ITi98p Extra Credits - Giving a Face to Pure Evil Force-of-Nature Villains: http://bit.ly/1d611kl

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The Mighty Byzantine Empire : Documentary on the History of the Byzantines (Complete Documentary)

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Updated: 12 May 2015

The Mighty Byzantine Empire : Documentary on the History of the Byzantines (Complete Documentary). This is a very interesting and informative Documentary. It's part of a series of exciting and educational documentaries. This Youtube channel is for learning and educational purposes. Learning and Education are fundamental and important in today's society and becoming increasingly more accessible and convenient online. The availability of important information which is also entertaining helps everyone grow mentally and emotionally as people both individually and as a whole. Documentaries are the resource of choice of the information and internet generations of students around the world. The documentary here along with the other documentaries on this channel relate to important times and people in history, historic places, archaeology, society, world culture, science, conspiracy theories, and education. The topics covered in these video documentaries vary and cover about everything you could possibly want to know including ancient history, Maya, Rome, Greece, The New World, Egypt, World wars, combat, battles, military and combat technology, current affairs and events, important news, education, biographies, famous people and celerities, politicians, news and current events, Illuminati, Area 51, crime, mafia, serial killers, paranormal, supernatural, cults, government cover-ups, the law and legal matters, corruption, martial arts, sports figures, space, aliens, ufos, conspiracy theories, Annunaki, Nibiru, Nephilim, satanic rituals, religion, christianty, judaism, islam, strange phenomenon, origins of Mankind, Neanderthal, Cro Magnon, Inca, Aztec, Persia, Maya, Indus, Mesopotamia, monsters, mobsters, time travel, planet earth, the Sun, Missions to Mars, The planets, the solar system, the universe, modern physics, String Theory, the Big Bang Theory, Quantum Mechanics, television, archaeology, science, technology, nature, plants, animals, endangered species, wildlife, animal abuse, environmental concerns and issues, global warming, natural disasters, racism, sexism, gay and lesbian issues, and many other educational and controversial topics. Please enjoy and Learn Responsibly!

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The fall of an empire—the Lesson of Byzantium

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Updated: 06 Sep 2014
author: PravoslavieRu

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Fall of an Empire - The Lesson of Byzantium

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Updated: 26 Aug 2014
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A Russian film (overdubbed in English) about the Byzantine Empire from an Orthodox Christian perspective... From: http://vizantia.info/ (click on the Church)...

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BBC Documentary History The Byzantines Empire

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The eastern half of the Roman Empire proved less vulnerable to external attack, thanks in part to its geographic location. With Constantinople located on a strait, it was extremely difficult to breach the capital’s defenses; in addition, the eastern empire had a much shorter common frontier with Europe. It also benefited greatly from a stronger administrative center and internal political stability, as well as great wealth compared with other states of the early medieval period. The eastern emperors were able to exert more control over the empire’s economic resources and more effectively muster sufficient manpower to combat invasion. As a result of these advantages, the Eastern Roman Empire–variously known as the Byzantine Empire or Byzantium–was able to survive for centuries after the fall of Rome. Though Byzantium was ruled by Roman law and Roman political institutions, and its official language was Latin, Greek was also widely spoken, and students received education in Greek history, literature and culture. In terms of religion, the Council of Chalcedon in 451 officially established the division of the Christian world into five patriarchates, each ruled by a patriarch: Rome (where the patriarch would later call himself pope), Constantinople, Alexandria, Antioch and Jerusalem. The Byzantine emperor was the patriarch of Constantinople, and the head of both church and state. (After the Islamic empire absorbed Alexandria, Antioch and Jerusalem in the seventh century, the Byzantine emperor would become the spiritual leader of most eastern Christians.)

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Engineering an Empire The Byzantines

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Updated: 18 Apr 2014
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The shining light of the Dark Ages gets the appreciation it deserves in this captivating survey of its greatest achievements. The Byzantines invented foreign...

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The Differences Between The Roman Empire and The Byzantine Empire

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The Byzantine Empire or Eastern Roman Empire was the Roman Empire during the Middle Ages, centered on the capital of Constantinople, and ruled by emperors in direct succession to the ancient Roman emperors. It was called the Roman Empire, and also Romania, by its inhabitants and its neighbours. As the distinction between "Roman Empire" and "Byzantine Empire" is purely a modern convention, it is not possible to assign a date of separation, but an important point is the Emperor Constantine I's transfer in 324 of the capital from Nicomedia (in Anatolia) to Byzantium on the Bosphorus, which became Constantinople (alternatively "New Rome").

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Rise and fall of Byzantine Empire Simulation

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Byzantine Empire 395-1453

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The Byzantine Empire

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Updated: 20 Jul 2014
author: DocumentaryMakedonia

The Byzantine Empire The Byzantine Empire was the predominantly Greek-speaking continuation of the Roman Empire during Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages. It...

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The Byzantine Empire

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Updated: 28 Aug 2014
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My tribute to the Byzantine Empire, if you like it, share it. Roman Nationalism - Message me for information. Also, thanks to Kryanwan8 for his extended vers...

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Byzantium: The Lost Empire - John Romer (Complete)

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Updated: 23 Jan 2015

The ancient, legendary empire of Byzantium - also known as the Eastern Roman Empire - outlasted the demise of Rome by a thousand years. A new order rose to become the last classical civilization of world history, sheltering the vestiges of Western learning during the Dark Ages, thriving off the silk and spice trade from the East, and eventually succumbing to the ruthless advance of crusaders and Ottomans. Pass through the gates of Constantinople, the eye of the world, where East still meets West. Explore the magnificent mosque of Hagia Sophia. Visit the treasury of St. Mark's in Venice and see antiquities never before filmed for television. Historian John Romer leads a fascinating journey back in time to discover the wondrous treasures of a fallen, haunted and forgotten realm. Part1: Building the Dream: "The procession was led by the great Roman Emperor, Constantine. And he brought with him a bunch of priests, pagan and Christian ones, and they were all holding an incredible collection of relics. There were twelve baskets filled with crumbs, the residue it was said of our Lord's miracle of the loaves and fishes. There was the very axe that Noah made the Ark with and there was a statue that the Emperor himself had brought secretly from Rome, the statue of the Greek god, Paris. And at the exact moment prescribed by astrologers, they buried their relics just over there, at the foot of the column. And Constantine renamed the city Constantinople and claimed it as the capital of his grand new empire. For forty years, he killed foes and family alike and when he died, people were so frightened of him that no one touched his body for a week." Part2: Heaven on Earth: "Look! Here is Jupiter. This is a pagan book illustrating pagan poetry, and it's a picture of Jupiter the king of the gods, and he's got a halo just like Christian saints will have in their pictures. And he's holding a globe just like Christ will in a thousand churches. And he's sitting under the arc of heaven as Christ does, and he's king of the stars and the moon and the sun. This is a pose which says to you,"KING". You can't have Jesus king of the world unless he looks like a king. That's where they're getting their iconography from - straight from the pagan faith. But When Christianity took over the Roman Empire, it attacked and swept away all these signs. Now these signs were as old as man himself, and Christianity was pretty poorly supplied with alternatives. After all, it was a language of books and words. But unless it was to fail, it had to develop and develop quickly a whole new set of images for the world. The trick, the genius, wasn't just to swap this ancient chaos with ten thousand pagan signs and symbols for a single set of Christian images, but to find a quick way of spreading these Christian images and pictures right through the ancient Mediterranean. Books - books were the answer. Books were invented at the same time that Christianity started." Part3: Envy of the World: "The dream that lasted for a thousand years, a dream shattered by the armies of the West, the fame of Byzantium, traveled from Iceland to China, from Ethiopia to Russia, to every kingdom on the earth. And, at its center, Constantinople, the world's great marketplace: its fabled wealth, its gold, its emeralds, its palaces, its glittering churches. A legend so rich it caused its own destruction. In 1204, the Venetians managed to divert a cutthroat army of Crusaders from their sacred vows to capture Palestine for Christendom. Promising them the plunder of Byzantium, they provided lists of the treasures and the holy relics inside Constantinople. On the thirteenth of April, Venetian war galleys sailed up to the city walls and the knights of France and Germany, of Italy and England, jumped from the boats onto the battlements. Over the next fifty years half of Constantinople was boxed up, crated, and shipped out of the city to Venice and the West." Part4: Forever and Ever: "On the last day of Byzantium, an eerie quiet fell over the city. Mehmet had told the Turks to rest, for a whole day, before the last assault. He gave the emperor time to walk with all that was left of the armies and nobles of Byzantium, once again into the great church, and there, after all their arguing in Florence, the Greeks and the Latins joined together in a last service, and the emperor went to the altar and was given the last rites. Then, he walked back to the palace, and there he made a speech to his commanders. A speech, you might say that it was the last speech of the ancient world. Byzantium was not a kingdom of this world. It was a belief in the inevitability that the world came, had a beginning, will come to an end. So when the emperor went onto to the walls and took with him the most ancient icons of his faith, and he knew that he would die, he also knew that he was right."

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Byzantine Empire / Empire byzantin (395-1453) - Βασιλεία Ῥωμαίων

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Updated: 04 Sep 2014
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Fictitious anthem / Hymne fictif Protectors of the Earth, by Two Steps From Hell.

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The Byzantine Imperial Army

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Updated: 30 Oct 2011

The holy army of the Orthodox Byzantine Empire that defended Europe and Christianity for 1.000 years, including its mercenaries.

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Crusader Kings II Soundtrack - The Byzantine Empire

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Updated: 04 Sep 2014
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From the music DLC "Songs of Byzantium" http://www.crusaderkings.com/buy.

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BYZANTINE EMPIRE - [476 AD - 1453 AD]

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Updated: 01 Sep 2014
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The Byzantine Empire was the predominantly Greek-speaking continuation of the eastern half of the Roman Empire during Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages. Its...

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History Channel Lost Empire of Byzantium Ancient Byzantine Empire Documentary

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Updated: 01 May 2015

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18. The Early Middle Ages, 284--1000: The Splendor of Byzantium

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Updated: 15 Aug 2014
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The Early Middle Ages, 284--1000 (HIST 210) In this lecture, Professor Freedman surveys major trends in Byzantine history from the sixth to eleventh century,...

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The letter sent to the Byzantine Emperor Heraklius by Prophet Muhammad

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Updated: 23 Sep 2011

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Emperor Manuel I Komnenos of Byzantine Empire

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Updated: 19 Nov 2009

was a Byzantine Emperor of the 12th century who reigned over a crucial turning point in the history of Byzantium and the Mediterranean. Eager to restore his empire to its past glories as the superpower of the Mediterranean world, Manuel pursued an energetic and ambitious foreign policy. In the process he made alliances with the Pope and the resurgent west, invaded Italy, successfully handled the passage of the dangerous Second Crusade through his empire, and established a Byzantine protectorate over the Crusader kingdoms of Outremer. Facing Muslim advances in the Holy Land, he made common cause with the Kingdom of Jerusalem and participated in a combined invasion of Fatimid Egypt. Manuel reshaped the political maps of the Balkans and the east Mediterranean, placing the kingdoms of Hungary and Outremer under Byzantine hegemony and campaigning aggressively against his neighbours both in the west and in the east. However, towards the end of his reign Manuel's achievements in the east attacking a well-defended Seljuk position.

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Teacher Resource-The Rise & Fall of the Byzantine Empire

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Updated: 28 Jul 2013
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This was cut together from several sources, and was used in the 10th Grade World History class I taught. I claim no ownership of any copyrighted material, an...

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Byzantine Empire: Glory and Decline

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Updated: 08 Aug 2013
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PLEASE RATE AND SUBSCRIBE!! !! A simply tale of the greatest Empire to ever live, the Roman Empire (the second part).

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20 Jun 2015

A female drug mule was arrested carrying 1.5kg of liquid cocaine in her breast implants as she tried to board a flight from the Colombian capital to Barcelona in Spain ... Sabillon was arrested on suspicion of smuggling drugs ... ....

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New York prison escapees may have been seen near Pennsylvania state line

Denver Post

21 Jun 2015

FRIENDSHIP. N.Y. — The search for two killers landed Saturday in New York's southern tier near the Pennsylvania state line, about 350 miles from the prison where they escaped two weeks ago ... He gave no other details ... ....

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Doctors Without 'Moral' Borders

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19 Jun 2015

Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling. In "Straw Dogs. Thoughts on Humans and Other Animals," John Gray writes that due to scientific progress and industrialization, most people today think they belong to a species that can be master of their own destiny.(1) But such a belief system is a human construct, a false reality and abstract construction invented by humans who believe they are superior to other animal species ... 3....

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Over her long career, Bretagne has made a significant contribution to the search and rescue community through her many deployments including the World Trade Center after 9/11, the 2002 Olympic Winter Games, and Hurricane Rita in 2005.

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Victory For Nation's Military Dogs: Senate Passes 2016 National Defense Authorization Act With Provisions To Return Military Dogs To U.S. Soil, Reunite Them With Handlers Bill with language supported by American Humane Association introduced in House by Frank LoBiondo (R-NJ) and Senate by Claire McCaskill (D-MO) mandates return of retiring military working dog to U.S. soil; First rights of adoption to go to former handlers and their families

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19 Jun 2015

WASHINGTON, June 19, 2015 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The nation's military working dogs, each of whom saves the lives of between 150-200 servicemen and women in the course of their career, are one step closer to being guaranteed treatment as the heroes they are as the U.S ... The language was introduced in the House by Congressman Frank LoBiondo (R-NJ) and the Senate by Senator Claire McCaskill (D-MO) ... About American Humane Association ... ....

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Watercolours and drawings produced between 1904 and 1922 and mostly signed ‘A Hitler’ bought in controversial German sale A watercolour painting of Neuschwanstein castle, signed A Hitler.

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Hitler's art of flowers and fairytale castles sells for £280,000 at auction

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21 Jun 2015

Watercolours and drawings produced between 1904 and 1922 and mostly signed ‘A Hitler’ bought in controversial German sale. A watercolour painting of Neuschwanstein castle, signed A Hitler. Photograph. Christof Stache/AFP/Getty Images. Ben Knight in Berlin. Sunday 21 June 2015 12.27 BST. Fourteen watercolours and drawings by Adolf Hitler fetched a total of €391,000 (£280,000) at a controversial auction in Nuremberg ... More news Topics ... ....

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Istanbul Intrigues: An Ottoman detective and his adventures

Yahoo Daily News

21 Jun 2015

Yashim is the creation of British historian and writer Jason Goodwin (1964-), who studied Byzantine history at Cambridge and after his first book (about the history of tea in India and China), walked from newly non-communist Poland to Turkey (recounted in "On Foot to the Golden Horn" 1993) ... Meanwhile, the Sultan lies dying, and a shadowy organisation seeking to revive the Byzantine Empire rises....

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10 Exotic Vacations for Executives to Get Aligned and Learn

Huffington Post

16 Jun 2015

1. Morocco ... 2. Easter Island ... 3. Turkey. Visiting what was once home to the Ottoman Empire is a great read into leadership, especially when taking in all the rich history of rulers and the empire building strategies employed during that time. This includes visiting the Old City within Istanbul and the Hippodrome, where some of the largest chariot races occurred during the Byzantine Empire ... 4. Cambodia ... 5. The Cook Islands ... 6. Bahamas ... 7 ... 8. Peru ... 9....

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How John became King of England, Duke of Normandy

The Examiner

16 Jun 2015

He dreamt of building an empire ... He conquered the isle of Cyprus, which was part of the Byzantine Empire – the state the Roman Catholic, Western and Central European Crusaders were supposed to be reinforcing – because its governor, Isaac Komnenos, had seized a treasure when a treasure ship was wrecked on the island’s southern coast....

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The terrifying science behind the grizzliest Game Of Thrones deaths

Business Insider

16 Jun 2015

Game of Thrones, the notoriously successful book series and adapted TV show, has had its fair share of gruesome deaths. They’re not messing about when they say all men must die ... Warning ... Wildfire ... “The Byzantine Empire had a substance called Greek Fire that was used in a similar way to wildfire,” Simmons tells IFLScience ... While Greek Fire was used extensively throughout the Byzantine civil wars, no one knows exactly what it was made of ... ....

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The Science Behind The Most Gruesome Deaths In Game of Thrones

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15 Jun 2015

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Reading, Writing, Required Silence How Meditation Is Changing Schools And Students

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12 Jun 2015

Quiet Time at Brooklyn Urban Garden School. On a Wednesday afternoon in early May, after a full day of studying the Byzantine Empire and sitting through lessons on annotation and critical reading, the sixth-graders in Zsazita Walker’s social studies and language arts class were, expectedly, acting like sixth-graders ... But before dismissal, one exercise remained. The kids shuffled from grouped tables to neat, forward-facing rows of desks....

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A corner of heaven on earth

Dawn

09 Jun 2015

He was born near Balkh in Afghanistan, then at the eastern frontier of the Persian Empire ... From the city walls built during the Roman and the Byzantine empires to the gems of history and the jewels of time in the Topkapi Palace and Museum that preserve the Ottoman era, there is evident a collective commitment to protect the exceptional riches of shared ethnicity, language and memory....

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Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov’s Exclusive Interview with Bloomberg Television’s Ryan Chilcote, Moscow, June 2, 2015 (Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation)

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02 Jun 2015

(Source. Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation). Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov's Exclusive Interview with Bloomberg Television's Ryan Chilcote, Moscow, June 2, 2015. Question ... Sergey Lavrov, thank you very much for joining. I want to start by asking you about your recent meeting with the US Secretary of State John Kerry ... Question. Mr ... Ok ... We got our religion, the Orthodox Christianity from the Byzantine Empire (прим....

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Islam center stage as Turkish election campaign enters final week

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30 May 2015

By Daren Butler and Humeyra Pamuk ... Turkey's most dominant politician for more than a decade and founder of the AK Party, Erdogan draws much of his support from the pious masses ... "We will not give way to those who speak out against our call to prayer," he said in a speech in Istanbul to mark the anniversary of the 1453 Islamic conquest that turned the capital of the Byzantine Empire into the seat of Ottoman power....

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Stancioiu nets grant to study portraiture in Crete (College of William and Mary)

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21 May 2015

Stancioiu finds the portraits in remote Orthodox churches in the Grecian countryside, in areas that were originally part of the Byzantine Empire but had shifted to Venetian or European rule by the time the portraits were created ... But women are portrayed in gowns that were in style during the height of the Byzantine Empire, when the islands were part of Byzantium....

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A tiny window into history (Dalhousie University)

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13 May 2015

(Source. Dalhousie University). It's one thing to read about ancient battles in a textbook. It's another thing to witness it up close - in a manner of speaking ... Mitchell, describing the course, "and we end with the downfall of the Byzantine Empire. Referring to this particular diorama, he noted that, "This is one of the most classic eras of the Roman army, when they're fighting to expand the Roman Empire." ... distributed by....

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Turkey: readers' tips, recommendations and travel advice

The Daily Telegraph

11 May 2015

In Istanbul, base yourself in Sultanahmet near the beautiful Blue Mosque and Hagia Sophia, the huge and handsome monument to the Byzantine empire – once a church, later a mosque, and now a fascinating museum ... As the birthplace of the Ottoman Empire, this Unesco World Heritage ... Bursa was one of the main silk trading cities of the Ottoman Empire....

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Highlights of the Peloponnese

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24 Apr 2015

I've just spent a few days in the far south of Greece. I've always thought you get plenty of Greek Island charm without leaving the mainland if you head for the Peloponnesian Peninsula. It's all within about 3 to 4 hours by car from Athens ... But first, check out these photos ... But the oranges are incredible ... At Mystras, once a leading city in the Byzantine Empire, the population is down to seven nuns ... Pictured here is Vathia ... ....

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