![]() ![]() ![]() Through the help of Chukwu, they head to Lagos under the disguise of a road trip and meet Udide who weaves a flying grasscutter in exchange for Sunny's story.Īfter a series of events, Chukwu sees the grasscutter and they escape before the council car comes to pick them. Sunny and her friends Orlu, Chichi, and Sasha visit Bola, where she tells Sunny to go to Lagos to meet Udide, who will weave a flying grasscutter to take them to Osisi. Her spirit face Anyanwu is separated from her after an attack from Ekwensu, who emerges again. ![]() Then, her father threatens to disown her. She disobeys the Leopard rules, and with assistance of Chichi, uses a juju to scare the members of the cult that haunts Chukwu in the university and is sent to the Obi Library basement to face a djinn whom she defeats and reunites with her friends and parents. Sunny Nwazue has recurring vision of a burning city and while picking up tainted pepper, she is given a comb by Mami Wata. Set a year after the events of the first book, it follows Sunny Nwazue, an American-born Nigerian albino girl living in Aba who becomes a member of the secret Leopard society. ![]()
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From Caligula To Constantine : Tyranny & Transformation in Roman Portraiture. Untersuchungen zu Form und Funktion kleinformatiger Porträts der römischen Kaiserzeit. Here is an example of another small bronze portrait of Caligula that was intentionely mutilated and thrown into the Tiber river in Rome.ĭahmen, K. It also seems that smaller, personal images of Caligula were deliberately thrown away after his murder several have been recovered from the River Tiber in Rome. Many were reworked as portraits of Augustus or of Claudius. had his statues and portraits removed from public view. There was no official Damnatio Memoriae after the death of Caligula, but there surely was an unoffical Damnatio Memoriae. TitleBronze portrait head of the emperor Gaius (Caligula) Note the wonderful full hair down the nape of the neck. I don’t know how often it is on display, but it is a wonderful small portrait that shows the clear physiognomy of Gaius Caligula. I was given this photo by a member of our Julio Claudian group. ![]() Small Bronze Portrait of Gaius Caligula from Metropolitan Museum ![]() ![]() ![]() Vinay Govind Brahmania has a creative workshop in Mumbai which caters to the advertising and animation industry. Sourav Mohapatra is a writer of comics who has authored Mumbai Confidential, Devi, Sadhu, India Authentic and Moon Mountain. Sourav Mohapatra is the author of this book, while Vinay Govind Brahmania is the illustrator. Abhimanyu's valour changed the tide of the war and led to the triumph of dharma over adharma. ![]() A ruse is deployed to keep Krishna and Arjuna away. He knew the way to enter this formation but did not know how to exit it.Ī brave Kshatriya, Abhimanyu breaks into the Chakravyuha and faces the Kaurava onslaught single handedly. ![]() ![]() Abhimanyu had heard the tactic while he was in his mother's womb. 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The Way of The Warrior: The Legend of Abhimanyu is a graphic novel that depicts the story of the valiant Prince Abhimanyu, son of Arjuna, the famous Pandava. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Sitting in the cottage at a marble-topped table, Roberts explains how these women - who couldn't vote and were considered to be their husbands' property - exercised power in Washington.Īccording to Roberts, Mary Todd Lincoln could have "tremendous flare-ups of temper," but she was also smart and politically savvy. The recipient of that letter, Mary Todd Lincoln, is one of several Civil War-era women at the center of Capital Dames: The Civil War and the Women of Washington, 1848-1868, a new book by Morning Edition contributor Cokie Roberts. "And he just ends with the simple question, 'Shall they?' So he's in no hurry to leave." 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