Rating: 10|Votes: 1
"I challenge you to let this be the first step to understanding the depth of the Middle East’s diversity"
Rating: 7|Votes: 3
The Dead Sea Scrolls were one of the most fascinating discoveries of the twentieth century. They provided new grist for generations of biblical scholars like the recently deceased Geza Vermes who translated the Scrolls into English. Not surprisingly the name of Dr. Vermes never came up in US tax litigation, but not so the Dead Sea Scrolls. The Dead Sea Scrolls were the subject of tax litigation in the early sixties when the First Circuit upheld a decision of the Tax Court.
Rating: 7.5|Votes: 4
Nearly half a millennium later, the government of the Republic of Turkey continues to celebrate the fall of the city, today's Istanbul, with religious, sports, and media festivities. Kemalist governments long understood the fall of Constantinople as a signature event for Turkish nationalism.
Rating: 5.8|Votes: 6
St. Constantine the Great, Equal to the Apostles, First Christian Emperor of Rome, builder of Constantinople and founder the Byzantine Empire. He is a military victor, effective ruler and glorified saint. There is no doubt that his contribution to world history and that of the Orthodox Church is indeed spectacular.
Rating: 3.6|Votes: 8
The grateful Muscovites built the Sretensky Monastery on the site of the meeting of the miracle-working icon which took place on August 26, 1395, “That the great works of God may never be forgotten.” After remaining for 242 years near the Klyazma River, the Vladimir Icon of Theotokos was taken to Moscow and placed in the Kremlin Dormition Cathedral. Thanks to its grace-filled protection, Moscow was spared in 1408 from Khan Edigey, in 1451 from the Nogay prince, Mazovshi, and in 1459 from his father Khan Sedi-Ahmet.
