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12 hours ago · Early life Liliʻuokalani was born Lydia Liliʻu Loloku Walania Kamakaʻeha on September 2, 1838, to Analea Keohokālole and Caesar Kapaʻakea. She was born in the large grass hut of her maternal grandfather, ʻAikanaka, at the base of Punchbowl Crater in Honolulu on the island of Oʻahu. According to Hawaiian custom, she was named after an event linked to her birth. At the time she was born ...
12 hours ago · e. John Glover Roberts Jr. (born January 27, 1955) is an American jurist who has served since 2005 as the 17th chief justice of the United States. [3] He has been described as having a moderate conservative judicial philosophy, though he is primarily an institutionalist.
12 hours ago · The daughter of Marcus Porcius Cato Uticensis and second wife of Marcus Junius Brutus, according to ancient historians such as Cassius Dio and Appian, killed herself by swallowing hot coals. Modern historians find this tale implausible. Claudius Drusus: c. 20 AD
12 hours ago · However Cato and Varro as quoted by Macrobius considered them religiosi. When opened, the pit served as a cache for offerings to underworld deities, particularly Ceres, goddess of the fruitful earth. It offered a portal between the upper and lower worlds; its shape was said to be an inversion of the dome of the upper heavens. N
12 hours ago · Cato Maior, De agri cultura: Nicolaus Jenson: Venice: Edited by Georgius Merula and Francesco Colucia under the collective title Scriptores rei rusticae. Merula took care of the first three texts to which he also added three glossaries, one for each author; Colucia instead occupied himself with Palladius.
