THE ULTIMATE
On this day, May 11th 330 AD/CE, the Roman Emperor Constantine made Byzantium the new capital of the Roman Empire - that city also known as Constantinople, is now Istanbul - Turkey's most populous city, and the only city in the world to straddle two continents!
Istanbul sits on both sides of the Bospurous Strait, so one half is in Europe and the other in Asia. At times it has been the most populous city in the world, and the Hagia Sophia, seen in our picture, has been a cathedral and a mosque, now a museum, was once the largest building in the world. Constantine's desion to make Byzantium the new capital of the Roman Empire, moved the centre of the Empire eastwards. Constantine viewed it as a 'New Rome', though the name didn't take off, whilst Constantinople basically means the 'City of Constantine', whilst the city's current name Istanbul, is an alteration over time of the Greek 'In to the city'. Constantine was the first Christian Roman Emperor, who did numerous acts linked to Christianity during his rein, for example using the Chi-Ro symbol for Christ on the shields of his soldiers, only converted on his death bed. He was also acclaimed Roman Emperor when he was fighting as a general in Britain, the Roman soldiers declaring him Emperor at the city of Eboracum, now York in Northern England. Whilst, football fans may recall Istanbul as the city where in 2005 one of the most dramatic Champions League Finals occurred, with Liverpool 3v0 down by half-time and in disarray, they pulled the three goals back and won the European Cup on penalties. Some may say that Steven Gerrard, Liverpool's inspirational captain, was the Emperor that night!
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Japan's Sumida Aquarium is asking for help via Facetime, so that its Garden Eels come out of their burrows again to view their human visitors. Since the lockdown they haven't had any visitors, so they have hidden away in their burrows when their keepers walk by. When they are hidden in their burrows away their state of health is impossible to check - so the keepers are going to try putting tablets by their aquarium, and have people Facetime the Garden Eels so they come out of their burrows to view the human visitors and get used to humans again - so their health can be checked. Interested, watch this video on the BBC, and the link to the Sumida Aquarium page is there too... https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/newsbeat-52500113 Picture: Maksim Shutive via Unsplash
On This Day the Greatest Cricket Batsman ever was born... ...Happy Birthday, Sachin Tendulkar!4/24/2020 On this day, April 24th 1973, Indian cricketer Sachin Tendulkar was born.
Tendulkar played as a batsman for India, participating in the side that won the World Cup in 2011, He is the only player to have scored 100 centuries in Internaatsman tional cricket, and has the greatest tally or runs in International cricket of all time. He is arguably the greatest batsman of all time, a view that is debated in comparison to the great Australian batsman, Don Bradman, for Test Cricket and Viv Richards the West Indian batsman in One Day Internationals. In 2013 Wisden's Cricketer Almanack, 250th edition, picked him as the only Indian in its World Test XI. Tendulkar was nicknamed the 'Master Blaster'. |
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