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Herod the Great remains true to form
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Herod the Great ruled Judaea as a Roman client King from 37 to 4 BCE. Herod was known for his remarkable construction projects, for his fierce loyalty to his Roman masters, the cruelty of his reign, and for his ability to appease his largely Jewish subjects. The inherent tension in pleasing both pagan Rome and his monotheistic Jewish subjects provides a background for understanding the religiously ambiguous or balanced images found on his coins.
In a recent article, "Herod the Great Shows his True Colors," that appeared in Near Eastern Archaeology, David Jacobson (2001) ...
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DON'T MIND YOUR Ps Qs; TAKE ONE Arabella Weir gets animated about her latest role, as the voice of agony aunt duck Hana.(Features)
Newspaper article from: Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales)
; ...of others by becoming an MP but it's not for me... for now, anyway. Q You've had a varied career, from singing with Stuart Goddard before he became Adam Ant, to newspaper columnist. But what's been your worst job? A Working in a cake shop in...
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Frauen: German Women Recall the Third Reich. (book reviews)
Magazine article from: History Today
; ...were reunited. The Letters of Lady Arabella Stuart edited by Sara Jayne Steen (Oxford...throne. As a woman of royal rank, Stuart was educated for command yet she lived...fighting to `be my owne woman'. Arabella Stuart's vo
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Writing Women in Jacobean England.
Magazine article from: Renaissance Quarterly
; ...women--Anne of Denmark, Elizabeth of Bohemia, Arabella Stuart, Lucy Russell, Anne Clifford, Rachel Speght, Elizabeth...to be praised, nevertheless, in the chapters on Arabella Stuart, Amelia Lanyer, Rachel Speght, Elizabeth Cary...
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'Hamlet' and the Scottish succession?
Magazine article from: Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900
; ...a dozen, including four other principal ones: Lady Arabella Stuart, Catherine Grey, the Earl of Derby, and Philip II...speculators and the chanceries of Europe": James, Arabella, and the Infanta.(7) As Thomas Wilson observed...
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BOOKS: Historic tale of guilt, betrayal and treason.(Features)
Newspaper article from: The News Letter (Belfast, Northern Ireland)
; ...scaffold. In 1603, Ralegh was sentenced to death for treason for his part in a plot to oust King James in favour of Arabella Stuart. He would have been hung, drawn and dismembered but King James granted him a last-minute reprieve and confined...
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Old and unknown catechism found at stately home
News Wire article from: AP Worldstream
; ...Hardwick, Countess of Shrewsbury, who built Hardwick Hall near Chesterfield between 1590 and 1597. They included Arabella Stuart, a niece of Mary, Queen of Scots. "You can imagine a child running around here and, when no one was looking...
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Jackson Pulls Out of DNC Chair
Newspaper article from: Atlanta Inquirer
; ...state parties? Just what does that mean? It all sounds pretty nebulous to me," Burchette said. Another retiree, Arabella Stuart, said: "I've always admired Maynard Jackson, always voted for him, and I feel he would have won the DNC chairman...
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Writer sues Edward over 'stolen' TV programme.
Newspaper article from: The Daily Mail (London, England)
; ...suggested featuring the stories of the Earl of Nithsdale, Robert Carr, Lady Francis Wood, Sir Thomas Overbury and Lady Arabella Stuart - all of which surfaced in Ardent's version. Mr O'Sullivan-Beare claims that Ardent's programme, which was...
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Guy must stay on his pyre
Newspaper article from: Evening Standard - London
; ...destroy the Houses of Parliament, with the King sitting in them. They were going to replace him with a Catholic - Lady Arabella Stuart - and make this country into a Roman Catholic land on the pattern of Spain, thereby undoing the Elizabethan settlement...
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Book Reviews: Ralegh's tempest.(Features)
Newspaper article from: The News Letter (Belfast, Northern Ireland)
; ...to the throne of James I. Accused of plotting the king's downfall in 1603, with the hope of replacing him with Arabella Stuart, he had been condemned to be hanged, drawn and quartered as a traitor. Only a last-minute Royal reprieve saved...
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