By Stephanie Thornton
Where Theodora went, difficulty followed...
In sixth-century Constantinople, one lady, Theodora, defied each conference and the entire odds and rose from universal theater tart to empress of a very good state, the main robust lady the Roman Empire may ever understand. the girl whose picture used to be later immortalized in glittering mosaic used to be a scrappy, shrewdpermanent, conniving, flesh-and-blood girl choked with sensuality and spirit whose actual tale is as superb as any ever told...
After her father dies abruptly, Theodora and her sisters face hunger and a existence at the streets. made up our minds to outlive, Theodora makes a residing any manner she can—first on her again with each guy who could have her, then at the degree in a scandalous dramatization of her personal invention. whilst her bold functionality provides her a backdoor access into the halls of strength, she seizes the opportunity to win a filthy rich protector—only to stand heartbreak and betrayal.
Ever resilient, Theodora rises above such trials and, through a coincidence, meets her such a lot passionate admirer but: the emperor's nephew. She flourishes as his confidant and courtesan, yet many demanding situations lie forward. For at some point this guy will hand her a crown. And the entire empire will wonder—is she daring adequate, sensible sufficient, and powerful sufficient to maintain it?
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The Secret History: A Novel of Empress Theodora
The place Theodora went, hassle undefined. ..
In sixth-century Constantinople, one lady, Theodora, defied each conference and the entire odds and rose from universal theater tart to empress of a superb nation, the main strong girl the Roman Empire could ever recognize. the girl whose snapshot was once later immortalized in glittering mosaic was once a scrappy, smart, conniving, flesh-and-blood lady filled with sensuality and spirit whose actual tale is as fabulous as any ever instructed. ..
After her father dies by surprise, Theodora and her sisters face hunger and a existence at the streets. made up our minds to outlive, Theodora makes a residing any means she can—first on her again with each guy who could have her, then at the level in a scandalous dramatization of her personal invention. while her bold functionality provides her a backdoor access into the halls of energy, she seizes the opportunity to win a filthy rich protector—only to stand heartbreak and betrayal.
Ever resilient, Theodora rises above such trials and, by way of a coincidence, meets her so much passionate admirer but: the emperor's nephew. She flourishes as his confidant and courtesan, yet many demanding situations lie forward. For at some point this guy will hand her a crown. And all of the empire will wonder—is she daring sufficient, sensible adequate, and robust adequate to maintain it?
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Although the latest species, such as the famous Smilodon fatalis from Rancho la Brea, disappeared “only” ten thousand years ago, the earliest mammalian sabertooths lived some 50 million years ago (or Ma) in the Eocene of North America. 2). Second, all sabertooths were synapsids – that is, they belonged to the large group of vertebrates that includes both the mammals and the mammal-like reptiles. ” In mammals, that opening corresponds to the large area in the side of the skull where the temporalis muscle attaches to the parietal bone.
Apart from their fearsome-looking upper fangs, the shape of the rest of the dentition of sabertooths shows that they fed almost exclusively on meat. They were “hypercarnivores,” meaning that their dentitions were so specialized for cutting meat that they had lost most of their ability to deal with other food items, such as bone or vegetable matter. Many modern mammalian predators, including wolves and bears, are more versatile, with dentitions that are suited to crushing bones, crunching insects, and processing vegetable matter.
A scene in the natural trap of Batallones-1 (Spain), during the Vallesian (late Miocene, some nine Ma). Two sabertooths of the species Machairodus aphanistus snarl at each other over the carcass of a rhinoceros. The floor of the cavity is littered with the bones of animals that had been trapped previously. 5. A forest scene in the European Villafranchian (late Pliocene), with the felid sabertooth Megantereon cultridens. The body proportions of this animal indicate that it was a good climber and would have preferred forested environments.