The Byzantine empire's bronze horseman towered over the heart of Constantinople, assumed new identities, spawned conflicting narratives, and acquired widespread international acclaim. Because all ...

Few of the world’s great cities share a pedigree and history as rich as Constantinople. Originally founded, according Greek mythology, by Byzas – son of the god Poseidon, the town once known as ...

Chain gangs developed as a popular solution to that problem. Chain gangs were groups of convicts forced to labor at tasks such as road construction, ditch digging, or farming while chained together.

He was the son of pious parents, Sergius and Irene, who suffered for the Faith under the Iconoclast Emperor Theophilus; he was also a nephew of Saint Tarasius, Patriarch of Constantinople (see Feb. 25 ...

Saint Alexander was sent to the First Ecumenical Council in Nicaea as the delegate of Saint Metrophanes, Bishop of Constantinople (see June 4), to whose throne he succeeded in the year 325. When Arius ...

Conveyor chain is used for material conveyance under harsh conditions, in specialty applications, or when material can be allowed to fall through gaps in the conveying surface. Like a transmission ...

All living things need energy. They get this energy from food. A food chain shows how energy is passed between plants and animals. All food chains include a producer. This is something that has ...

John Julius Norwich tells the dramatic story of the fall of Constantinople and the Byzantine Empire, followed by the rise of the Ottoman Turks in the 15th Century. Using monuments in Istanbul to ...

On a basic level, a chain is a more sturdy component than a belt made of reinforced rubber, as well as having gaps for the timing sprocket’s teeth to fit into as a natural part of their design.

An early line printer that used type slugs linked together in a chain as its printing mechanism. The chain spun horizontally around a set of hammers. When the desired character was in front of the ...

The Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople has been welcomed in Melbourne by thousands of people, to celebrate the centenary of the archdiocese. Those young and old flocked into the city to see ...

In a world with increasingly interconnected supply chains, your suppliers’ risks are your risks. With historic information going back to 2006, Bloomberg’s integrated data and tools give you ...