Indeed, some fantastical creatures seem positively ordinary compared with the more byzantine products of four billion years of evolution.
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It's something you'll see on House of Cards, where Frank Underwood's schemes grow more and more byzantine with every season.
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Unless Mr Osborne changes course and revives the idea of simplification, the unfortunate reality is that the tax system is likely only to become more byzantine.
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Rather than sell the documents to a Microsoft competitor, the hackers opted for a more byzantine scheme: They would counterfeit and sell a Durango themselves, using off-the-shelf components.
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Instead, if signed into law, the bill will make America's already impossible-to-navigate tax code even more byzantine, likely requiring an expansion of the IRS to collect the necessary revenue.
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The internal politics of the Historical Institute in the Durdane novels are considerably more Byzantine, if not downright Machiavellian, than those of the Institute as described in the Demon Princes novels.
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Two years later Bardas once again tried and failed to invade al- Dawla's Cilicia. The Hamdanids would hold out against two more Byzantine attacks in 954 and 955.Treadgold (1997), p. 492 More serious conflict began in the spring of 956, when al-Dawla began a renewed invasion of Byzantine territory.
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The text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type, with numerous pre-Byzantine readings. According to Scrivener "it exhibits strong Alexandrian forms." According to Streeter in some parts it has the Caesarean readings. Aland placed it in Category V, and it is certain that it is more Byzantine than anything else.
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Such extensive fresco cycles are rare features in Armenian architecture – it is believed that these ones were executed by Georgian artists, and the cycle also includes scenes from the life of St. Nino, who converted the Georgians to Christianity. In the narthex and its chapel survive fragmentary frescoes that are more Byzantine in style.
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B. H. Streeter, The Four Gospels. A Study of Origins the Manuscripts Tradition, Sources, Authorship, & Dates, MacMillan and Co Limited, Oxford 1924. It is grouped with N, O, Σ, and Uncial 080 to constitute the Purple Uncials. Aland categorized the first four into Category V, and it is certain that they are more Byzantine than anything else.
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Pantokrator, angels, scenes from the life of Christ. Even the inscriptions are written in Greek. The narrative scenes of the nave (Old Testament, life of Sts Peter and Paul) are resembling to the mosaics of the Old St. Peter's and St. Paul's Basilica in Rome (Latin inscriptions, 1154–66). The Martorana church (decorated around 1143) looked originally even more Byzantine although important parts were later demolished.
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Ekonomou, 2007, pp. 204-206. Constantine IV alludes to these four monasteries in a letter to Pope Donus; Ekonomou suggests there were at least two more Byzantine monasteries in Rome: the Boetiana and St. Erasmus on Caelian Hill.Ekonomou, 2007, p. 206. Greek monastics brought with them (in the late seventh century) the institution of monasteria diaconia, dedicating to serving the indigent of the city.Ekonomou, 2007, pp. 207-211.
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The Latin word magister has two meanings, "master" and "teacher", and it is not improbable that Vasari had meant the second definition of the word. Cimabue portrayed the same subject of symmetry in his 1280 Virgin and Child Enthroned, and both pieces share aspects of the Italo-Byzantine style, with Cimabue's having more Byzantine attributes. Additionally, the two depictions of the angels' wings in Giotto and Cimabue's pieces clearly resemble each other. Both pieces share a similar, initial feeling of severity, yet there is more to each piece than the drama.
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As time went on, their religious traditions evolved and resembled more Byzantine practices than those non-Chalcedonian Christians. As time passed and Islam became dominant, Salibas continued to live in urban areas and maintain a close familial network from Antakya to Nazareth and Damascus to Latakia. During persecutions in the 17th and 18th centuries, many Salibas moved to more mountainous communities such as Bteghrine in Mount Lebanon. As the centuries continued, many moved for economic and political benefit to southern Lebanon, the Galilee and surrounding towns around Bteghrine.
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The retreating Byzantines encountered 800 more Byzantine troops and reformed. Upon being informed of the current situation however, these 800 fled to the safety of Belisarius’ main force. Reforming these troops and listening to their reports, Belisarius noticed that many Vandals had already been routed while the rest had halted. Rightly believing he outnumbered the Vandals Belisarius moved rapidly on Ad Decimum. Procopius believed that if Gelimer had pursued the fleeing Byzantines he would have completely overrun Belisarius unsuspecting contingent while if he would have moved towards Carthage he would have cut the Byzantine army off from John’s advance guard.
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Behr's case was that Hirohito knew as long ago as 1931 - when his troops took control of Manchuria in the putsch that became known as the Mukden Incident - what his military chiefs were doing; that he encouraged it; and that he was fully aware of their preparations for the Second World War. In his book on the Ceauşescus, Behr said that the couple established a dictatorship more Byzantine than Marxist–Leninist. The title, Kiss the Hand You Cannot Bite, was a Romanian proverb. Behr's biography of Pu Yi, The Last Emperor (1987) - Pu Yi survived the Cultural Revolution and ended his life as a gardener - won Behr the Gutenberg Prize.
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Though Michael's successor Andronikos II quickly repudiated the Union of the Churches, many of the Palaiologan emperors worked to ensure its restoration. As the Ottoman Empire grew to encompass more and more Byzantine territory, emperors such as John V and Manuel II labored intensely to retore the union, much to the dismay of their subjects. At the Council of Florence in 1439, Emperor John VIII reaffirmed the Union in the light of imminent Turkish attacks on what little remained of his empire. To the Byzantine citizens themselves, the Union of the Churches, which had to John VIII was an assurance of a great western crusade against the Ottomans, was a death warrant for their empire.
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Regular Latin 'knightly' heavy cavalry were part of the guard, with individual Latins or those of Western descent to be found in the imperial household, others were grouped into a formation later known as the latinikon. Alternatively, bands of mercenary knights were often hired for the duration of a particular campaign. The charge of the western knight was held in considerable awe by the Byzantines; Anna Komnene stated that "A mounted Kelt [an archaism for a Norman or Frank] is irresistible; he would bore his way through the walls of Babylon."Anna Komnene, p. 416 The Latins’ equipment and tactics were identical to those of their regions of origin; though the appearance and equipment of such troops must have become progressively more Byzantine the longer they were in the emperor's employ.
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In 1953, Jacob Kaplan surveyed the site and found mostly Roman pottery from the 1st century CE as well as Early Bronze Age pottery. Kaplan later excavated the site in 1966 and discovered tombs and pottery from the 1st century BCE to the 1st century CE as well as a structure and tombs from the 4th century CE. In 1980, Haya Ritter-Kaplan excavated the site and discovered a small fortress from the time of Byzantine emperor Heraclius in the early 7th century CE. Ritter Kaplan returned to the site in 1983-1984 and found more Byzantine remains as well as Hellenstic remains including two coins of Ptolemy II Philadelphus (3rd century BCE). In 2014 a salvage excavation was undertaken south of Tel Hashash under the direction of Yitzhak Marmelstein and Amir Gorzalczany. The excavation discovered tombs from the Middle and Late Bronze Age, Hellenistic pottery and an Ottoman well.
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