Lifelong San Diegan, UCSD graduate, history major, Spanish minor. Thank you, Roger DeLaix, Armin Rappaport, Guillermo Céspedes, Ramón Eduardo Ruiz, Jaime Alazraki, Diego Catalán and many others for all I learned in your classes! Also Dr. John Sutherland at SDSU and Joseph H. Silverman at UCSC.
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History (just about all areas), science fiction & fantasy, languages (esp. Greek & Latin), old movies & TV shows, astronomy & cosmology, old issues of National Geographic, Scientific American, Astounding/Analog, Asimov's Science Fiction, Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction
Byzantine emperor Justinian I dedicated the great cathedral of Hagia Sophia in Constantinople in 537 AD, five years after the previous structure was destroyed in the Nika riots. It still stands today and I hope to visit it in the future.