It was this offence to the Church and its voluntary henchmen the Parabalani that led to the murder of Hypatia and ultimately the final destruction of the great library. Teachers from around the ...

It was this ‘challenge’ that was eventually a key underlying point that fuelled the lies, propaganda, deceit and subsequent murder of Hypatia. In her absoluteness of love of people she embraced life ...

An Alexandria pair have been arrested in connection to the shooting death of a 12-year-old girl in her home, as well as the ...

They dragged her from her carriage and into a nearby church. They stripped Hypatia of her clothing and then beat her to death with pieces of tile. Her body was then desecrated, torn into pieces ...

Hypatia is an excellent example: we know very little about her life, and even less about her death. [She was a neoplatonist mathematician who was killed by a mob incited by a Bishop in Alexandria in ...

[From: Society’s Final Solution: A History and Discussion of the Death Penalty, Laura E. Randa, ed., University Press of America, Inc., 1997. Reprinted with ...

In Hayao Miyazaki and the Heron, the legendary animation director loses close friends to old age and grapples with the ...

After the death of her husband in 1690 ... buried in the Heweliusz family grave at St Katherine’s Church in Gdańsk. Just like the ‘Silesian Hypatia’, the (woman) astronomer is commemorated through a ...

Hypatia of Alexandria was a 4th century Greek ... Highly regarded after his death by philosophers and mystics, Swedenborg claimed he could visit heaven and hell at will and that his ideas about ...