Book Pidgeon

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A mosaic of Emperor Justinian I and his retinue within the Basilica of San Vitale in Ravenna. It was completed by 547 CE, shortly after the partial re-conquest of the West during the Gothic War. The five center figures from left to right: Antonina, Belisarius, Justinian I, Narses(?), Maximianus

Built in 520 CE, the Mausoleum of Theodoric was the final resting place of Theodoric the Great. King of the Ostrogoths starting in 475 and the first ruler of the Ostrogothic Kingdom of Italy from 493–526 following the death of Odoacer. Viewed as one of the most successfull rulers following the fall of the Western Roman Empire in 476, the Ostrogothic Kingdom would continue to decline after Theodoric's death. Leading to its collapse in 553.

A c. 500 CE mosaic depicting a Vandal cavalryman. Likely originating during Thrasamund's reign of the Vandal Kingdom, it was found within the cistern of Bordj Djedid, a portion of the Zaghouan Aqueduct in Carthage.

Completed Works

Key

◆ = What I consider my best work.

• Alexander Iden ◆ ◆ ◆
• Charles S. Hempstead (My first original work) ◆ ◆ ◆
• Chicago Coin Club ◆ ◆ ◆
• DePaul Art Museum ◆ ◆ ◆
• DePaul Blue Demons football ◆ ◆ ◆
• DePaul Blue Demons softball ◆ ◆ ◆
• John Shaw (colonel) ◆ ◆ ◆
• North Park Vikings football ◆ ◆ ◆

Original Works

People

• Albert Frankel (architect) ◆
• Benjamin Shacklett Dowell ◆
• Guillaume-Joseph Grelot
• Harry F. Adams
• Jill Pizzotti ◆
• John Gage
• Lawrence Raynsford
• Liz Bouck-Jagielski
• Niccola della Tuccia
• Philip Fitz Lewes ◆
• Sigmund Krausz
• Thomas Iden
• Tracie Adix-Zins
• William Cromer (died 1450)
• William Crundall ◆

Places/Structures

• Caspar Ott Cabin ◆
• Grandwood Lake
• John Shaw Cabin
• Mill Creek (Des Plaines River tributary) ◆
• Mother Rudd House ◆

Events/Etc.

• Illinois Numismatic Association
• Central States Numismatic Society --> Forcibly deleted article.
• 1885 Cabery fire
• 1938 Rodessa tornado ◆
• The History of the Castle, Town, and Port of Dover ◆

A Town's Historical Provenance I Have Added

Illinois

• Andalusia, IL
• Apple River, IL
• Bath, IL
• Browning, IL
• Cabery, IL ◆
• Capron, IL
• Chesterfield, IL
• Deer Grove, IL
• Elizabeth, IL ◆
• Fieldon, IL
• Gages Lake, IL
• Grandwood Park, IL ◆ (Spent my early childhood here)
• Littleton, IL
• Manito, IL
• Milledgeville, IL
• Neponset, IL
• Old Mill Creek, IL ◆
• Riverwoods, IL
• Roseville, IL
• Scottville, IL
• Third Lake, IL
• Tower Hill, IL
• Union Hill, IL
• Winthrop Harbor, IL

Louisiana

• Bonita, LA
• Collinston, LA
• Epps, LA ◆
• Ida, LA
• Marion, LA
• Oak Ridge, LA ◆
• Rodessa, LA ◆
• Spearsville, LA
• Vivian, LA
• Wham, LA

Random Personal Favorites

• Coinage in Anglo-Saxon England
• Defenestration
• Exhumation and reburial of Richard III of England
• Frogs in culture
• Spacecraft cemetery
• 2018 Moscow–Constantinople schism