Saturday, January 31, 2004

Sacagawea

Historians have been hard put to separate the facts from the body of folklore that have made this brave

Friday, January 30, 2004

Chasuble

Liturgical vestment, the outermost garment worn by Roman Catholic priests and bishops at mass and by some Anglicans and Lutherans when they celebrate the Eucharist. The chasuble developed from an outer garment worn by Greeks and Romans called the paenula or casula (�little house�), a conical or bell-shaped cloak made from a semicircular piece of cloth sewn partially

Thursday, January 29, 2004

Roxana

Also spelled �Roxane � wife of Alexander the Great. The daughter of the Bactrian chief Oxyartes, she was captured and married by Alexander in 327, during his conquest of Asia. After Alexander's death (323) she had his second wife, Stateira (Barsine), killed, and she gave birth at Babylon to a son (Alexander IV), who was accepted by the Macedonian generals as joint king with the idiot Philip