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Traditionally, born in the purple [1] (sometimes "born to the purple") was a category of members of royal families born during the reign of their parent. This notion was later loosely expanded to include all children born of prominent or high-ranking parents. [2] The parents must be prominent at the time of the child's birth so that the child ...
Zoe Porphyrogenita (also spelled Zoë; Greek: Ζωή Πορφυρογέννητη, Medieval Greek: [zoˈi] "life"; c. 978 – 1050) was a member of the Macedonian dynasty who briefly reigned as Byzantine empress in 1042, alongside her sister Theodora. Before that she was enthroned as empress consort or empress mother to a series of co-rulers ...
Leontia (Greek: Λεοντία, 457 – after 479) was the daughter of the Eastern Roman Emperor Leo I.. Biography. Leontia was the daughter of Emperor Leo I and his wife Verina; she was younger sister of Ariadne, but, unlike her, she could claim to be porphyrogenita, "born in the purple", because she was born during the first year of reign of her father (457).
Early life and education (1885–1908) Family background See also: Homer Pound House Thaddeus Coleman Pound, Pound's paternal grandfather, in the late 1880s Pound was born in 1885 in a two-story clapboard house in Hailey, Idaho Territory, the only child of Homer Loomis Pound (1858–1942) and Isabel Weston (1860–1948), who married in 1884. Homer had worked in Hailey since 1883 as registrar ...
e. The Zhuangzi ( Chinese: 莊子, historically romanized Chuang Tzŭ) is an ancient Chinese text that is one of the two foundational texts of Taoism, alongside the Tao Te Ching. It was written during the late Warring States period (476–221 BC) and is named for its traditional author, Zhuang Zhou . The Zhuangzi consists of stories and maxims ...
Plot summary The structure of this short story is a fable told from the point of view of a Puerto Rican parrot , a critically endangered species endemic to Puerto Rico . It describes the country's Arecibo radio telescope and how, in 1974, the telescope was used to broadcast a radio message from humanity into deep space to demonstrate humanity's ...
The Little Prince (French: Le Petit Prince, pronounced [lə p (ə)ti pʁɛ̃s]) is a novella written and illustrated by French writer and military pilot Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. It was first published in English and French in the United States by Reynal & Hitchcock in April 1943 and was published posthumously in France following liberation ...
Bhartṛhari. Bhartṛhari ( Devanagari: भर्तृहरि; Bhartrihari; fl. c. 5th century CE) was an Indian philosopher and poet and is known for his contributions to the field of linguistics, grammar, and philosophy. He is believed to born in the 5th century in Ujjain, Malwa, India. He decided to live a monastic life and find higher ...