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On the Shores of Islands: The Ocean Feeds the Zanzibar Archipelago.
World and I
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August 1, 2004|
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Wendy Stone is a freelance photojournalist, represented in the United States by Corbis, and is based in Nairobi, Kenya.
A thousand years of trade, settlement, and Islamic expansion have left historic ruins up and down the East African coast. In the second century, the Greeks knew of this coast and called it Azania, meaning Land of the Blacks. Later, in the ninth and tenth centuries, Arab and Persian traders and settlers called it Bilad-al-Zenj. Their small settlements grew into fiercely independent city-states which brought forth a distinct Arab-African culture.
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For Anna Akhmatova.(Poem)
Magazine article from: Prairie Schooner
; For Anna Akhmatova Who had been in love with her that summer? Did it matter? The...howled in indignation, more like the peasant she had come to resemble than Anna Comnena or Cleopatra or the ikon of words who was asked by other women at the prison...
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Women of Byzantium.(Brief article)(Book review)
Magazine article from: The Historian
; ...imperial wife, and the historian Anna Comnena as a "passionate voice." In part...218). Yet Connor herself records Anna Comnena's condemnation of "the scandal...was noticed by this reviewer is of Anna for her "snobbish attitude" in...
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Books in Brief
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times
; ...historian with a secret obsession for 11th century writer Anna Comnena, murders his mistress and vanishes. Are the two linked...fabulous they are. The history of the First Crusade and Comnena, whom Kristeva characterizes as the first major female...
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Page turners; Murder and intrigue span the globe, from Byzantium to Burundi. Who's guilty? Reviewer Yvonne Zipp is on the case.(FEATURES)(WEEKEND)
Newspaper article from: The Christian Science Monitor
; ...historian with a secret obsession for 11th-century writer Anna Comnena murders his mistress and vanishes. Are the two linked...are. The history of the first Crusade and the life of Comnena, whom Kristeva characterizes as the first major female...
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Bloodstock Desk: maiden winner of the day.(Sports)
Newspaper article from: The Racing Post (London, England)
; ...modern breeding take heart; Goslar's got it. Anna Of Brunswick's siblings include Group 3 mile-and-a-half winner Anno Luce, Anna Comnena, dam of the smart Sadlers Wings, and Anna Matrushka, whose progeny include Annaba...
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Flat Stable Tour - Brian Meehan: Ready to build on best-ever start.(Sports)
Newspaper article from: The Racing Post (London, England)
; ...enough when he appears at Brighton on Thursday. He'll never set the world alight, but he'll win. Gipsy Anna b f Marju - Anna Comnena She won both her races last season, at Haydock and Newbury, then picked up an injury. At this moment she...
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The Orphans of Byzantium: Child Welfare in the Christian Empire.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: The Historian
; ...child welfare in the Byzantine empire, the author quotes Anna Comnena on three twelfth-century strategies for the care of...orphanages. What follows is "an extended commentary on Anna's two-sentence passage," covering the whole millennium...
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Julia Kristeva, Murder in Byzantium.(Book review)
Magazine article from: The Comparatist
; ...and, more strangely, that he had fallen in love with Anna Comnena, the twelfth-century Byzantine princess and the main...detective" (75); and other characters, Sebastian and Anna, can also be seen as doubles of the author. In short...
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The Illyrians.
Magazine article from: The Historian
; ...their early history down to the Roman conquest; and "Roman Illyrians," taking the story from the Roman Republic to Anna Comnena. It is all carefully documented, with numerous references to primary sources and to modern scholarship. Misprints...
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What book?
Newspaper article from: The Daily Mail (London, England)
; Donna Leon . . .ARE YOU READING NOW? THE Alexiad Of Anna Comnena (Penguin, [pound]10.99). She was the daughter of the 11th-century emperor of Byzantium and wrote his biography. She...
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