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Zenobia
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
Zenobia Zenobia, a Palmyrene warrior queen, daringly declared independence from Rome...Roman emperors from 117 to 284, and most existing information concerning Zenobia can be traced to this source. Though the Scriptores was apparently authored...
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Blithedale Romance, The
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Literature
...suggested by Brook Farm, and the character Zenobia by Margaret Fuller, while Miles Coverdale...Silas Forster, a farmer, and his wife; Zenobia, a passionate and queenly woman; Hollingsworth...delicate girl said to be a city seamstress. Zenobia and Priscilla both fall in love with Hollingsworth...
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Ethan Frome
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Theatre
...Mattie Silver ( Ruth Gordon ) comes to live with her cousin, Zenobia Frome ( Pauline Lord ), and Zenobia's husband, Ethan ( Raymond Massey ), Ethan and Mattie fall in love. Zenobia orders Mattie from the house. On the way to the station...
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Palmyra
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East and North Africa
...c.e., the city was ruled by Queen Zenobia. Under her vigorous rule, Palmyra in 270 conquered Syria, Egypt, and Anatolia. Zenobia then declared the empire of Palmyra independent...territory and plundered the city of Palmyra. Zenobia tried to flee by camel toward the Euphrates...
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Syrians
Encyclopedia entry from: Junior Worldmark Encyclopedia of World Cultures
...Hell." One of Syria's heroes is Queen Zenobia of the ancient city of Palmyra who took...her son were both assassinated. Queen Zenobia led her troops in battle against the Romans...often retorts, "What about our Queen Zenobia?" This is supposed to remind him of...
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Juan Ramón Jiménez
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...1916 Jim é nez went to the United States and married Zenobia Camprubi. On this trip the poet composed his important book...his contemporaries. In 1956, just at the time his beloved Zenobia lay dying, Jim é nez received the Nobel Prize in literature...
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Paul of Samosata
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...patriarch of Antioch. He was a friend and high official of Zenobia of Palmyra. Paul enounced a dynamic monarchianism , denying...excommunicated (269), but he continued to function as bishop under Zenobia's protection until the Romans took Palmyra (272). Arius...
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Longinus
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...Educated at Alexandria, he probably taught at Athens and then traveled to Asia Minor as a minister of Queen Zenobia of Palmyra. Along with Zenobia he is reported to have been executed by the Roman emperor Aurelian in 273 on charges of conspiring against...
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Lord, Pauline
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Theatre
...most notable parts in the 1930s were the loyal cook Abby in The Late Christopher Bean (1932), the embittered, unkempt wife Zenobia in Ethan Frome (1936), and Amanda Wingfield in the 1946 touring production of The Glass Menagerie . She was an actress with...
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Aurelian
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...beyond the Rhine in check. His most brilliant exploits were in the East—especially in Palmyra, where he captured Zenobia and destroyed her kingdom. Aurelian went to Gaul, where he received the submission of the independent "Emperor" Tetricus...
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