some of the say, well, justinian died. there was a great plague that wiped out a million byzantium's. flavius belisarius ended up in poverty and blind. a lot of that land was either lost to these as coughs, the lombards, or the rise of islam. but what it did, it provided a critical question around byzantium because lo and behold where most people thought that the greek speakers in the west would fall of around 600 a.d., they lasted 900 more years and did not fall to that black tuesday, 1453, all because of the efforts of, i think, one man, flavius belisarius. the heyday of byzantium. when the great church was built by justinian. there was the great blues and greens, rivalries in the hippodrome. he was a man of his time. the third, i thought, was a modern kind of counterpart, and that did not want to write about people i have before, but in one case i made an exception, and that was william tecumseh sherman in the civil war. most of your member gettysburg and vicksburg, july 4th 2 1/5, and six of 1863. we all say, well, tha