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Some evidence points at the presence of Orientals in late Roman Italy: traders (labelled “Syrians”), petty sellers (the pantapolae Nov. Val. 5), but also students, professors such as Ammianus Marcellinus, or pilgrims. Although being citizens, nonetheless they were considered foreign individuals, subject to special restrictions. The actual strangers made a different case, especially Persians. si...

In 1830, a Russian painter named Anton M. Legashov (1798–1865) went to Beijing as part of the Orthodox Ecclesiastical Mission becoming first professional artist in China. total, four painters visited China being included mission: A. Legashov, K. I. Korsalin, Chmutov, and L. S. Igorev. Beijing, artists were supposed paint portraits commissioned by Chinese thereby establish useful contacts with i...

Abstract This article examines state-society encounters in imperial Ethiopia through histories of exploitation and compromise. Focusing on the western province Qellem, investigates Ethiopia's engagement with local rights claims over time, illustrating how state was imagined, negotiated, partially legitimated. The inherent incoherence within structures is traced back to survival nodes indigenous...

according to the articles 169 to 179 of the civil judgment enforcement law, the enforcement of the foreign judgment in the iranian law is based on the reciprocal act. but extension of international relations in the world today, above all in the commercial domain, requires that enforcement of foreign judgment be accepted after obtaining its correctness conditions based on res judicata. therefore...

of it, and he wages an unnecessary warfare against all the unessential details of special religion. We agree with Mr. Martin that all incidental features of religion should be treated as incidentals and the essentials should be made paramount ; we also agree with him that all error should be removed ; but for that reason we need not drop or decry or ridicule or abhor any of those special featur...

It is no exaggeration to say that no U.S. Supreme Court opinion has been more misunderstood and has had its arguments more misrepresented in the public square than Roe v. Wade (1973). 1 There seems to be a widespread perception that Roe was a moderate opinion that does not support abortion on demand, i.e., unrestricted abortion for all nine months for virtually any reason. Even a philosopher of...