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Agafia was the daughter of Svyatoslav III Igorevich [1] and his wife Yaroslava Rurikovna, a daughter of prince Rurik Rostislavich of Belgorod . Between 1207 and 1210, Agafia arrived in Poland to marry Konrad I of Masovia. [1] The marriage was for political reasons, as her father had become an ally of Leszek I the White and wanted to improve ...
The poem goes on to detail the feast that Holofernes, the Assyrian general, hosts for his armies, to which the beautiful maiden, Judith, is invited. Holofernes, in his excess, forces his men to drink to unconsciousness, and then orders that Judith be brought to him to allow him sexual gratification. Judith is brought to his bed, which is hung ...
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Judith is a war epic, written originally in Old English, that dates to the late 10th century. It tells the story of military resistance and deliverance against enormous odds. Addressed to the Anglo-Saxon Christian communities along the eastern coast of England terrified by the perpetual threat of invasions by armadas of Viking marauders from ...
Jan 18, 2012 · One of the ancient ploys of the film industry is to make a film about non-white people and find a way, however convoluted, to tell it from the point of view of a white character. "The Help" (2011) is a recent example: The film is essentially about how poor, hard-working black maids in Mississippi empowered a young white woman to write a best-seller about them. "Glory" (1989) is about a Civil ...
Konrad I of Masovia. Konrad I of Masovia (ca. 1187/88 [1] – 31 August 1247), from the Polish Piast dynasty, was the sixth Duke of Masovia and Kuyavia from 1194 until his death as well as High Duke of Poland from 1229 to 1232 and again from 1241 to 1243.
King travels to Selma with Ralph Abernathy, Andrew Young, James Orange, and Diane Nash. Selma is an Alabama town & heart of the anti-African American sentiment in the south. King checks into a hotel that bars African Americans. James Bevel greets them, and other SCLC activists appear. FBI director J. Edgar Hoover tells Johnson that King is a ...
Synopsis. Joe Gardner, a middle school music teacher, feels stuck in life and unfulfilled at his job. He dreams of a career in jazz, to which his seamstress mother, Libba, objects. By chance, his former student Curly informs him of an opening in the band of jazz legend Dorothea Williams. Joe impresses Dorothea with his piano playing and is ...
