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Marcus Antonius Pallas (died AD 62) was a prominent Greek freedman and secretary during the reigns of the Roman Emperors Claudius and Nero. His younger brother was Marcus Antonius Felix, a procurator of ludaea Province. According to Tacitus, Pallas and Felix descended from the Greek Kings of Arcadia.
Antonius Jacobus Leonardus (Anton) van Hooff (born 1943) is a Dutch historian of antiquity, author and a former docent. [1] From 2009 until 2015, he chaired the freethinkers association De Vrije Gedachte .
Once Upon a Time in America premiered at the 1984 Cannes Film Festival on May 20, 1984. [49] It received a 15-minute standing ovation after the screening. [ 50 ] In the United States, a heavily edited version of the film received a wide release in 894 theaters on June 1, 1984, and grossed $2.4 million during its opening weekend. [ 51 ]
Just as brands, designers and social media are ever-churning with fashion, so is the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute. Already in the midst of a yearlong exhibition that celebrates ...
EEN was one of the first distributors of shows such as The French Chef (with Julia Child) in 1962, [2] Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, [1] and Washington Week in Review on a national basis. Another first from EEN was the distribution of Newsfront, America's first live and non-commercial daily news program, starting in 1970. [2]
[3] [4] His father and namesake was Marcus Antonius Creticus, son of the noted orator Marcus Antonius who had been murdered during the purges of Gaius Marius in the winter of 87–86 BC. [5] His mother was Julia, a third cousin of Julius Caesar. Antony was an infant at the time of Lucius Cornelius Sulla's march on Rome in 82 BC. [6] [note 2]
Editor’s Note: In Snap, we look at the power of a single photograph, chronicling stories about how both modern and historical images have been made.. By his own admission, James Crombie knew ...
Sanderus tells us in his Sanderus Apologidion that the biggest inspiration for his Flandria Illustrata was the Theatrum sive Hollandiae Comitatus et urbium nova descriptio Marcus Zuerius Boxhornius (Boxhorn Nl), which in 1632 was published by the Amsterdam based publisher and engraver Henricus Hondius.