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Jilber Najem and
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Active for over fifty years, Porphyrios caused great concern for Byzantine seafarers. Emperor Justinian I (r. 527–565) made it an important matter to capture it, though he could not come up with a way to do so.
Porphyrios (whale)
Justice 4 Porphy
Plate from An Original Theory or New Hypothesis of the Universe by Thomas Wright, 1750.
I. TIME in its irresistible and ceaseless flow carries along on its flood all created things, and drowns them in the depths of obscurity, no matter if they be quite unworthy of mention, or most noteworthy and important, and thus, as the tragedian says, "he brings from the darkness all things to the birth, and all things born envelops in the night."... See more
Anna Comnena: • Internet History Sourcebooks: Medieval Sourcebook
The Straussian Moment
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“Many variations of wording can be found in both versions of ‘Auld Lang Syne’ as they have been set down over the years. In fact, surviving manuscript copies in Burns’s own hand are not identically worded.”
Though the letters are written one after the other and the "X" and "P" not combined in a monogram, these are known as Chi-Rho pages.
Chi Rho
You wretched, dear, resplendent thing.
