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Long live the king
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Born in the Mississippi backwaters on January 8, 1935, to a poorly
paid truck driver dad and seamstress mother, Elvis Aaron Presley
didn't exactly have the best start in life.
Two decades later, with a shake of the hip and a curl of the lip,
he changed the world, becoming the most famous man alive while doing
so.
By the time he was 42, however, he was dead - although there are
certain people who don't believe that to be the case - and we've been
in mourning ever since.
On August 16, it will be 30 years since the great man passed away,
so now's as good a time as any too look back at the his ...
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It was tribalism that finished Rome, and it will finish Brussels too
Magazine article from: The Spectator
; ...for example, the German Vandal king Gaiseric. He entered Gaul unopposed in 406 and...governor of North Africa, to help him out, Gaiseric took a shine to his new home, kicked...The Romans shrugged and in 436 granted Gaiseric federate status. Gaiseric's response...
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Author traces journey of `God's gold' Says Temple icons hidden in W. Bank
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe
; ...Who stole God's gold?" Kingsley said in an interview. According to his research, it was Gaiseric, king of the Vandals. "In AD 455, Gaiseric looted and burnt Rome in 14 days and threw everything he could, including the Temple treasures...
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Emerald ire: the Black Donnellys presents a smart--if familiar--take on Irish guts and guilt.(TV)
Magazine article from: New York
; ...weren't enough, the History Channel returns with four more hours of rape and pillage, this time featuring the Vandals (Gaiseric and his bloodthirsty boy-child Huneric, from Germany on to Gaul, Spain, North Africa, and Rome), the Saxons (Edwin...
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 "Naperville Sun, The (IL)")
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Papalpalooza; Some truly eminent and inept characters mark papacy's history
Newspaper article from: Naperville Sun, The (IL)
; ...Leo stood up to Attila the Hun as he was about to pounce on Rome and persuaded him to leave the city. He also met the Vandal Gaiseric outside the walls of Rome and prevented him from destroying the city. If the invaders had taken over Europe, Western civilization...
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Revisiting my father's synagogue.
Magazine article from: Judaism: A Quarterly Journal of Jewish Life and Thought
; ...the renowned Temple of Jerusalem during his final assault on the city in the year 70. Similarly, when the Vandals, under Gaiseric, sacked Rome in 455, they did not plunder the churches. And today, in any country of the Western world, when modern vandals...
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THE COLLAPSE OF A COLLEGIAL CHURCH: NORTH AFRICAN CHRISTIANITY ON THE EVE OF ISLAM.
Magazine article from: Theological Studies
; ...Council of Carthage 419 bishops from all Africa ca. 428 Eve of the Vandal 700 sees (594 named invasion cities) 428-477 Gaiseric reigns 429 Vandals enter Africa; Boniface breaks from the Byzantine Empire & allies with the Vandals. 435 Byzantines...
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Found: fleet Vandals sunk
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
; ...sweeping through France and Spain before using Africa as a base for raids on the Italian peninsula. In 455 the troops of chief Gaiseric razed Rome. In a recent construction project near the Trevi Fountain in Rome, archaeologists found the remnants of a house...
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