Valerius Licinius Licinianus(AD ca. 250 – AD 324) Licinius was born in Upper Moesia in about AD 250 as the son of a peasant.He rose through the ranks of the military and became the friend of Galerius. It was on Galerius’ campaign against the Persians in AD 297 that his performance is said to have …
Marcus Aurelius Valerius Maxentius(AD ca. 279 – AD 312) Marcus Aurelius Valerius Maxentius was born around AD 279 as the son of Maximian and his Syrian wife Eutropia. He was made a senator and even was given Galerius‘ daughter Valeria Maximilla in marriage in an attempt to confirm his status of the son of an …
Flavius Valerius Severus(died AD 307) Severus II is a shadowy figure of whom little is known. Of his birth all that is clear is that it was somewhere in the Danubian region. The date and place are unknown, so too his parents. Like all the other Danubian leaders of that time, Severus II had risen …
Few places in the world have been romanticised to longer lengths than a former fruit-growing region now known as Silicon Valley. The region, also known as Santa Clara Valley, was given its nickname by a 1971 Electronics Magazine article, owing to the large quantities of silicon being used to make semiconductor chips. For the better …
Voices of the MexicaStories about true human sacrifices of the aztec empire, and the people and gods they served Asha SandsWritten April 2020 Upon seeing its vastness and pristine order, the first Europeans arriving to the Aztec Empire thought they were having an otherworldly in a glorious dream The binding of things to other things …
Mausaeus Carausius(died AD 293) Mausaeus Carausius was born to a humble family in Menapia, a region of seafarers in what is today the southern part of the Nertherlands.After playing a vital part in emperor Maximian’s campaign in AD 286 against the uprising of the bagaudae in Gaul, Carausius was granted command of the North Sea …