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$3.5 Million Marina to be Constructed on Grand Lake, Okla.(Originated from Tulsa World, Okla.)
; ...80 feet, Honey Creek Landing Marina will be the largest single marina on Grand Lake. Blakemore's partner in the project is Belisarius Ltd., a Grove family corporation headed by Brian Miller. The partnership also owns Lakeland Petroleum, a bulk petroleum distributorship...
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Books: The battles of the Saxons Julian Rathbone enjoys Alfred Duggan's elegantly written, newly re- issued historical novels
; ...1950s and early 1960s were a golden age for historical novels. The Claudius books by Robert Graves and his later works such as Belisarius and Wife to Mr Milton were reprinted and read far more widely than when they first appeared, Mary Renault was in full flow...
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Only an Outpost
; ...Ravenna being "the last capital of the Roman Empire," it was recovered from the Goths by the Emperor Justinian's general, Belisarius, in 540 A.D. and served as a western outpost (exarchate) of the eastern empire until 751 A.D., when it fell again into barbarian...
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War games on a miniature scale
; ...likes to play out the historical exploits of a general named Belisarius, a military commander in the sixth century A.D. under Byzantine ruler Justinian I. Born in 527, Belisarius led imperial armies against Persia, the Vandal kingdom of North...
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A test for connoisseurs: the Musee Jacquemart-Andre has hung some of David's most celebrated works next to an intriguing selection whose autograph status is questioned.
; ...respectively. The inclusion of a previously unexhibited study for Belisarius and the Child (private collection, Paris) is a valuable addition...exhibition, which also includes the Louvre's 1784 version of Belisarius (an earlier version had been a triumph for David at the Salon...
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British Historian Claims to Have Found the Temple Treasures.
; ...Africa, the Byzantine general Flavius Belisarius seized the treasure from a Vandal ship...capital of Byzantium. In recognition of Belisarius' great victory, the Emperor Justinian...spoils of the Temple of Jerusalem which Belisarius had recovered. In the 7th century, the...
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PAPERBACKS
; ...had a grand vision for his threatened empire. A master tactician, he surrounded himself with supremely able men. His general Belisarius, ranked beside Hannibal and Napoleon by Liddell Hart, vanquished the Huns and quelled an insurrection sparked by rioting sports...
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Romance and Rebellion
; ...the "Death of Socrates." Copies of successful paintings were entrusted to students. Thus, Fabre painted a small version of "Belisarius Recognized by a Soldier" and Girodet a version of the "Oath of the Horatii." Jean-Baptiste Colbert created the French Academy...
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The worst battle; Second world war.('Monte Cassino: The Hardest-Fought Battle of World War Two')(Book Review)
; ...allies set off northwards to Rome. But, as Matthew Parker notes, Rome had not been taken from the south since AD536, when Belisarius, a Byzantine general, managed it. Even Hannibal preferred to cross the Alps with his elephants rather than face the geography...
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The Encyclopedia of the Middle Ages
; ...elementary textbook. Magna Carta: "one of the most well-known... documents"; St. Francis: "one of the most honored saints . . . "; Belisarius: "one of the greatest generals..."; Beowulf. "one of the most important poems. . . "; Chr& tien de Troyes: "one of the...
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