Heraclius (Greek: Ἡράκλειος, translit. Hērákleios; c. 575 – 11 February 641), sometimes called Heraclius I, was the Eastern Roman emperor from 610 to 641. His rise to power began in 608, when he and his father, Heraclius the Elder, the exarch of Africa, led a revolt against the unpopular usurper Phocas. Heraclius's reign was marked by several military campaigns.

Ciencia y filosofía. En filosofía y ciencia, una hipótesis ad hoc es una hipótesis propuesta para explicar un hecho que contradice una teoría, es decir, para salvar una teoría de ser rechazada o refutada por sus posibles anomalías y problemas que no fueron anticipados en la manera original. Filósofos y científicos se comportan de manera escéptica ante las teorías …

Nero Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus (/ ˈ n ɪər oʊ / NEER-oh; born Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus; 15 December AD 37 – 9 June AD 68), was the fifth Roman emperor and final emperor of the Julio-Claudian dynasty, reigning from AD 54 until his death in AD 68.He was adopted by the Roman emperor Claudius at the age of 13 and succeeded him on the throne.

The Visigothic Kingdom, officially the Kingdom of the Goths (Latin: Regnum Gothorum), was a kingdom that occupied what is now southwestern France and the Iberian Peninsula from the 5th to the 8th centuries. One of the Germanic successor states to the Western Roman Empire, it was originally created by the settlement of the Visigoths under King Wallia in the province of Gallia …

As'ad AbuKhalil (Arabic: أسعد أبو خليل) (born 16 March 1960) is a Lebanese-American professor of political science at California State University, Stanislaus. AbuKhalil is the author of Historical Dictionary of Lebanon (1998), Bin Laden, Islam & America's New "War on Terrorism" (2002), and The Battle for Saudi Arabia (2004).

Sa'd ibn Abi Waqqas (Arabic: سعد ابن أبي وقاص, romanized: Saʿd ibn Abī Waqqās) was an Arab Muslim military general in the service of the Islamic prophet Muhammad and the Rashidun caliphs Abu Bakr (r. 632–634) and Umar (r. 634–644).He played the leading role in the Muslim conquest of Persia against the Sasanian Empire in 636–642. He founded the garrison city of Kufa and ...

In modern historiography, ancient Rome refers to Roman civilization from the founding of the city of Rome in the 8th century BC to the collapse of the Western Roman Empire in the 5th century AD. It encompasses the Roman Kingdom (753–509 BC), Roman Republic (509–27 BC) and Roman Empire (27 BC–476 AD) until the fall of the western empire.. Ancient Rome began as an Italic …

Biografia. Laureata in Psicologia Clinica presso l’Università degli Studi di Torino con tesi in ambito criminologico. Psicologa forense, è divenuta nota principalmente per il suo coinvolgimento nelle indagini sul delitto di Avetrana, quando le fu affidato il ruolo di consulente della difesa di Michele Misseri. In seguito fu chiamata a testimoniare proprio contro Misseri, dichiarando che l ...

The Nissan Sunny (Japanese: 日産・サニー, Hepburn: Nissan Sanī) is an automobile built by the Japanese automaker Nissan from 1966 to 2006. In the early 1980s, the brand changed from Datsun to Nissan in line with other models by the company. Although production of the Sunny in Japan ended in 2006, the name remains in use in China and GCC countries for a rebadged …

ʿUmar ibn al-Khaṭṭāb (Arabic: عمر بن الخطاب, also spelled Omar, c. 583/584 – 644) was the second Rashidun caliph, ruling from August 634 until his assassination in 644.He succeeded Abu Bakr (r. 632–634) as the second caliph of the Rashidun Caliphate on 23 August 634. Umar was a senior companion and father-in-law of the Islamic prophet Muhammad.