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Although it is an inland city, Ravenna is connected to the Adriatic Sea by the Candiano Canal.
It is known for its well-preserved late Roman and Byzantine architecture, with eight buildings comprising the UNESCO World Heritage Site "Early Christian Monuments of Ravenna"
In 49 BC, it was where Julius Caesar gathered his forces before crossing the Rubicon.
Later Octavian, after his battle against Mark Antony in 31 BC, founded the military harbor of Classis.
Under Byzantine rule, the archbishop of the Archdiocese of Ravenna was temporarily granted autocephaly from the Roman Church by the emperor, in 666, but this was soon revoked. Nevertheless, the archbishop of Ravenna held the second place in Italy after the pope, and played an important role in many theological controversies during this period.
Pope Adrian I authorized Charlemagne to take away anything from Ravenna that he liked, and an unknown quantity of Roman columns, mosaics, statues, and other portable items were taken north to enrich his capital of Aachen.
The Boehringer Ingelheim logo incorporates a stylized rendition of the central section of the imperial palace of Charlemagne.
After his banishment from his native Florence, Dante spent most of the rest of his life in Ravenna, and he mentions the city in Canto V of his Inferno.
Also in the 16th century, Nostradamus provides four prophecies:
"The Magnavacca (canal) at Ravenna in great trouble, Canals by fifteen shut up at Fornase", in reference to fifteen French saboteurs.[13]
As the place of a battle extending to Perugia and a sacred escape in its aftermath, leaving rotting horses left to eat
In relation to the snatching of a lady "near Ravenna" and then the legate of Lisbon seizing 70 souls at sea
Ravenna is one of three-similarly named contenders for the birth of the third and final Antichrist who enslaves Slovenia (see Ravne na Koroškem)[14]
Ravenna is the setting for The Witch, a play by Thomas Middleton (1580–1627)
Lord Byron lived in Ravenna between 1819 and 1821, led by the love for a local aristocratic and married young woman, Teresa Guiccioli. Here he continued Don Juan and wrote Ravenna Diary, My Dictionary and Recollections. Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) wrote a poem Ravenna in 1878.[16]
Symbolist, lyrical poet Alexander Blok (1880–1921) wrote a poem entitled Ravenna (May–June 1909) inspired by his Italian journey (spring 1909).
During his travels, German poet and philosopher Hermann Hesse (1877–1962) came across Ravenna and was inspired to write two poems of the city. They are entitled Ravenna (1) and Ravenna (2).
T. S. Eliot's (1888–1965) poem "Lune de Miel" (written in French) describes a honeymooning couple from Indiana sleeping not far from the ancient Basilica of Sant' Apollinare in Classe (just outside Ravenna), famous for the carved capitals of its columns, which depict acanthus leaves buffeted by the wind, unlike the leaves in repose on similar columns elsewhere.
J.R.R. Tolkien (1892–1973) may have based his city of Minas Tirith at least in part on Ravenna
Ravenna is the location where Lionel, the protagonist of Mary Shelley's post-apocalyptic novel The Last Man, comes ashore after losing his companions to a howling storm in the Aegean Sea.
The Last Man is an apocalyptic, dystopian science fiction novel by Mary Shelley, first published in 1826. The narrative concerns Europe in the late 21st century, ravaged by a mysterious pandemic illness that rapidly sweeps across the entire globe, ultimately resulting in the near-extinction of humanity. It also includes discussion of the British state as a republic, for which Shelley sat in meetings of the House of Commons to gain insight to the governmental system of the Romantic era. The novel includes many fictive allusions to her husband Percy Bysshe Shelley, who drowned in a shipwreck four years before the book's publication, as well as their close friend Lord Byron, who had died two years previously.
The Last Man was critically savaged and remained largely obscure at the time of its publication. It was not until the 1960s that the novel resurfaced for the public as a work of fiction, not prophecy. The Last Man is one of the first pieces of dystopian fiction published.
Ravenna is twinned with:[18]
Chichester, England, United Kingdom, since 1996
Speyer, Germany, since 1989
Chartres, France, since 1957
Madeleine Albright, who died Wednesday, knew how to deliver a diplomatic message without even saying a word. She sent signals with her decorative pins and brooches.....
originally posted by: Thoughtful1
a reply to: Caled
Caleb how can he have black eyes? There are colored contacts and he claimed to be a master of disguises. His google images don't show black eyes but then who knows what is what. Do you think it is important?
originally posted by: MetalThunder
a reply to: RelSciHistItSufi
a reply to: Thoughtful1
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originally posted by: Guyfriday
a reply to: CrazyFox
Hold up, so these scientists see a Kraken, get hit by lightning, and have a waterspout show up? That's kind of mythical isn't it. Now all we need is those Salamander Gods to show up again. Geeshs.
originally posted by: daskakik
a reply to: Justoneman
Did you just say it was OK for the US Gov. to kill tens of millions of native americans because some survived?
You need to go to the corner and think about what you posted.
originally posted by: SMOKINGGUN2012
a reply to: Justoneman
Yea well I am part Cherokee and it is perfectly fair to say that....
The how or why does not matter it is a FACT it happened and it is so easily forgotten or overlooked because...well they were just natives.....
Don't even get me started on Black people demanding reparations for slavery without mentioning one peep of what happened to millions of native americans BEFORE they were here....LOL...