The role of the first lady takes on different forms throughout history: we retrace it through historical portraits, up to the ...

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THE ART OF MEDICINE Medieval Islamic doctors broke new ground in diagnosing and treating infectious diseases such as smallpox, and pioneering lifesaving surgical procedures. Their interest also ...

It was built as a Christian church by emperor Justinian I in 537 ... Oscar Niemeyer is the genius behind the Niterói Contemporary Art Museum, a saucer-shaped modernist building completed in ...

She then purchased three warships, painting them black and outfitting ... out to resemble the wings of an eagle as he died in agony. Justinian II Justinian II was the last Byzantine emperor ...

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Some prominent women of the Byzantine Empire ended up as saints, scholars, patrons of both art and religion ... examples of such women was Empress Theodora the spouse of Emperor Justinian I. Theodora ...

Art and Architecture Tours of Hagia Sophia ... A Brief History of Hagia Sophia Constructed between 532 and 537 AD under the orders of Emperor Justinian I, Hagia Sophia was originally built as a ...

From the website of the Philippine Embassy, “an estimated 200,000 Filipinos live and work in Singapore and actively contribute to the economic development of both the Philippines and Singapore.

During this time, she took an Art History class where the professor claimed that women ... into the lowest class of the Byzantine Empire and eventually ruled over it with Justinian I as his ...