A Dutiful Roman Soldier
March/April 2021
A chunk of a high-quality marble gravestone unearthed in an ancient dump at the Roman settlement of Almus in northwestern Bulgaria tells the unusual and sad story of a high-ranking Roman legionary. According to the surviving five lines of a Latin inscription on the gravestone, which dates to the first century A.D., the soldier served 44 years in the Roman army, much longer than the usual 25-year term of service. The inscription records that the tombstone was created by the soldier’s freed slave, most likely in gratitude for having been granted his freedom along with the inheritance of his former owner’s property.
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Lost in the quake: The baby boys who never saw their first birthday
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Anna Leask is a senior reporter for the New Zealand Heraldanna.leask@nzherald.co.nz@AnnaLeask
Among the 185 names etched into the white marble of the Canterbury Earthquake National Memorial are two little boys - baby boys.
Baxtor Warwick Gowland, aged 5-and-a-half months.
Jayden David Harris aged 8 months.
Both babies were asleep and peaceful when their homes began to shake.
Babies whose lives were taken before they even celebrated their first birthdays.
Ten years on from the cruel and brutal quake their mothers speak - for the first time in depth - about that devastating day, their loss, grief and if they will ever heal.
Regency Redux: Add a Dose of Bridgerton Glam to Your Entryway
Regency Redux: Add a Dose of Bridgerton Glam to Your Entryway
Bold florals, luxe materials, and more design details to make the most of your entryway? Lady Whistledown would definitely approve.
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As we all slog through the past weeks of this pandemic winter, there can be no such thing as too much escapism. The smash success of Netflix s Bridgerton in late December was a clear sign that people needed to trade bleak winterscapes and bad news for lavish, colorful sets and salacious gossip, 19th-century style.