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A patriarch exiled over a grain fleet
Athanasius, the twentieth Pope of Alexandria and champion of Trinitarian theology, was banished to the distant city of Trier on charges of blocking a grain fleet bound for Constantinople. The exile was the first of five he would endure during his turbulent forty-five-year episcopacy, a testament to both imperial hostility and his own unyielding defense of orthodoxy.
Three Victoria Crosses in a single afternoon
During the Second Boer War, the Royal Canadian Dragoons fought a fierce rearguard action at Leliefontein in South Africa. In the swirling chaos of cavalry combat, three Canadian soldiers displayed such extraordinary valor that each was awarded the Victoria Cross, Britain's highest military honor. The battle became one of Canada's proudest moments in the conflict.
A ship collision with the Sidney Lanier Bridge in the U.
A ship collision with the Sidney Lanier Bridge in the U.S. state of Georgia resulted in a bridge collapse (pictured), which killed ten people.