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Former U.S. president Jimmy Carter, once called a 'pretty good Canadian,' dies at 100 Jimmy Carter, the self-effacing peanut farmer, humanitarian and former navy lieutenant who helped Canada avert a nuclear catastrophe before ascending to the highest political office in the United States, died Sunday at his home in Georgia. James McCarten, The Canadian Press Dec 29, 2024 2:19 PM Dec 29, 2024 2:20 PM Share by Email Share on Facebook Share on X Share on LinkedIn Print Share via Text Message Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter speaks after him and his wife Rosalynn, received honorary degrees from Queen's University in Kingston, Ont., on Wednesday Nov. 21, 2012. Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter and Nobel Peace Prize winner has died at 100. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Lars Hagberg Jimmy Carter, the self-effacing peanut farmer, humanitarian and former navy lieutenant who helped Canada avert a nuclear catastrophe before ascending to the highest political office in the United States, died Sunday at his home in Georgia. He was 100, making him the longest-lived U.S. president in American history. Concern for Carter's health had become a recurring theme in recent years. He was successfully treated for brain cancer in 2015, then suffered a number of falls, including one in 2019 that resulted in a broken hip. Alarm spiked in February 2023, however, when the Carter Center — the philanthropic organization he and his wife Rosalynn founded in 1982 — announced he would enter hospice care at his modest, three-bedroom house in Plains, Ga. Rosalynn Carter, a mental health advocate whose role as presidential spouse helped to define the modern first lady, predeceased her husband in November 2023 — a death at 96 that triggered a remembrance to rival his. "Rosalynn was my equal partner in everything I ever accomplished," the former president said in a statement after she died. "As long as Rosalynn was in the world, I always knew somebody loved and supported me." Conventional wisdom saw his single White House term as middling. But Carter's altruistic work ethic, faith-filled benevolence and famous disdain for the financial trappings of high office only endeared him to generations after he left politics in 1981. "The trite phrase has been, 'Jimmy Carter has been the best former president in the history of the United States,'" said Gordon Giffin, a former U.S. ambassador to Canada who sits on the Carter Center's board of trustees. "That grated on him, because it distinguished his service as president from his service — and I literally mean service — as a former president." His relentless advocacy for human rights, a term Carter popularized long before it became part of the political lexicon, included helping to build homes for the poor across the U.S. and in 14 other countries, including Canada, well into his 90s. He devoted the resources of the Carter Center to tackling Guinea worm, a parasite that afflicted an estimated 3.5 million people in the developing world in the early 1980s and is today all but eradicated, with just 13 cases reported in 2022. And he was a tireless champion of ending armed conflict and promoting democratic elections in the wake of the Cold War, with his centre monitoring 113 such votes in 39 different countries — and offering conflict-resolution expertise when democracy receded. Carter was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002, nearly a quarter-century after his seminal work on the Camp David Accords helped pave the way for a peace treaty between Israel and Egypt in 1979, the first of its kind. "His presidency got sidelined in the historic evaluation too quickly, and now people are revisiting it," Giffin said. "I think his standing in history as president will grow." A lifelong Democrat who never officially visited Canada as president, Carter was nonetheless a pioneer of sorts when it came to Canada-U.S. relations and a close friend to the two Canadian prime ministers he served alongside. One of them, former Progressive Conservative leader Joe Clark, once called Carter a "pretty good Canadian" — a testament to the former commander-in-chief's authenticity and centre-left politics, which always resonated north of the Canada-U.S. border. The pair were reunited in 2017 at a panel discussion in Atlanta hosted by the Canadian American Business Council, and seemed to delight in teasing the host when she described Clark as a "conservative" and Carter as a "progressive." "I'm a Progressive Conservative — that's very important," Clark corrected her. Piped up Carter: "I'm a conservative progressive." In 2012, the Carters visited Kingston, Ont., to receive an honorary degree from Queen's University. Instead of a fancy hotel, they stayed with Arthur Milnes, a former speech writer, journalist and political scholar who'd long since become a close friend. "He became my hero, believe it or not, probably when I was about 12," said Milnes, whose parents had come of age during the Cold War and lived in perpetual fear of the ever-present nuclear threat until Carter took over the White House in 1977. "My mother never discussed politics, with one exception — and that was when Jimmy Carter was in the White House. She'd say, 'Art, Jimmy Carter is a good and decent man,'" Milnes recalled. "They always said, both of them, that for the first time since the 1950s, they felt safe, knowing that it was this special man from rural Georgia, Jimmy Carter, who had his finger on the proverbial button." While Richard Nixon and Pierre Trudeau appeared to share a mutual antipathy during their shared time in office, Carter got along famously with the prime minister. Indeed, it was at the express request of the Trudeau family that Carter attended the former prime minister's funeral in 2000, Giffin said. "The message I got back was the family would appreciate it if Jimmy Carter could come," said Giffin, who was the U.S. envoy in Ottawa at the time. "So he did come. He was at the Trudeau funeral. And to me, that said a lot about not only the relationship he had with Trudeau, but the relationship he had in the Canada-U.S. dynamic." It was at that funeral in Montreal that Carter — "much to my frustration," Giffin allowed — spent more than two hours in a holding room with Cuban leader Fidel Castro, a meeting that resulted in Carter visiting Cuba in 2002, the first former president to do so. But it was long before Carter ever entered politics that he established a permanent bond with Canada — one forged in the radioactive aftermath of what might otherwise have become the country's worst nuclear calamity. In 1952, Carter was a 28-year-old U.S. navy lieutenant, a submariner with a budding expertise in nuclear power, when he and his crew were dispatched to help control a partial meltdown at the experimental Chalk River Laboratories northwest of Ottawa. In his 2016 book "A Full Life: Reflections at Ninety," Carter described working in teams of three, first practising on a mock-up of the reactor, then on the real thing, in short 90-second bursts to avoid absorbing more than the maximum allowable dose of radiation. "The limit on radiation absorption in the early 1950s was approximately 1,000 times higher than it is 60 years later," he wrote. "There were a lot of jokes about the effects of radioactivity, mostly about the prospect of being sterilized, and we had to monitor our urine until all our bodies returned to the normal range." That, Carter would later acknowledge in interviews, took him about six months. Carter and Clark were both in office during the so-called "Canadian Caper," a top-secret operation to spirit a group of U.S. diplomats out of Iran following the fall of the U.S. embassy in Tehran in 1979. The elaborate ploy, which involved passing the group off as a Canadian science-fiction film crew, was documented in the Oscar-winning 2012 Ben Affleck film "Argo." Carter didn't think much of the film. "The movie that was made, 'Argo,' was very distorted. They hardly mentioned the Canadian role in this very heroic, courageous event," he said during the CABC event. He described the true events of that escapade as "one of the greatest examples of a personal application of national friendship I have ever known." To the end, Carter was an innately humble and understated man, said Giffin — a rare commodity in any world leader, much less in one from the United States. "People underestimate who Jimmy Carter is because he leads with his humanity," he said. "I read an account the other day that said the Secret Service vehicles that are parked outside his house are worth more than the house. How many former presidents have done that?" This report by The Canadian Press was first published Dec, 29, 2024. James McCarten, The Canadian Press See a typo/mistake? Have a story/tip? 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In the quiet and peaceful village of Aquileia, in northern Italy near the Adriatic Sea coast, archaeologists from the Austrian Archaeological Institute of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW) found something remarkable and unexpected. While performing excavations just to the west of the town, near an ancient road that once led to Rome and Milan, they unearthed the ruins of an early Christian basilica, which they knew immediately was more than 1,000 years old. After decades of excavations in and around Aquileia , this is the first large-scale structure that has been discovered. Based on its architectural style, the ÖAW archaeologists have dated the church to the Byzantine period, and specifically to the reign of the celebrated emperor Justinian I , who ruled the Byzantine Empire from 527 to 565. As a part of his efforts to resurrect the glory days of the old Roman Empire, Justinian launched an ambitious monumental building campaign in the mid-550s, which included the construction of new and often spectacular Christian churches . “ The city was fortified under Emperor Justinian I with a mighty zigzag wall, for which there are the best comparisons in Thessaloniki. The discovery of the new basilica probably indicates a larger Byzantine building program,” archaeologist Stefan Groh explained in an Austrian Academy of Sciences press release . Emperor Justinian the Great: The Life and Rule of a Visionary Roman Theodora: From Humble Beginnings to Powerful Empress Who Changed History In actuality, the newly discovered church predated Justinian’s reign to some extent. The archaeologists determined that the foundation of the structure was constructed in the fourth century, before being expanded later. “The basilica was probably extended into an imposing building with three apses in the first half of the 6th century under Emperor Justinian I,” Groh said. “The architecture shows striking parallels to the Eastern Roman Empire, as can be found in Egypt, Turkey and the Balkans. The Rise and Fall and Rise and Fall of Aquileia Betw While Aquileia is an unassuming village today, 1,500 years ago it enjoyed a completely different status. With a population that peaked at over 100,000, it was one of the most prominent Italian cities in the Roman and Byzantine empires. Founded as a military encampment in 181 BC, it was strategically located near the seacoast, and along a road that led to the province of Noricum in modern-day Austria. Aerial view of the modern village of Aquileia, Italy, the site of a legendary Roman city. (Janos Korom/ CC BY-SA 2.0 ). When the original Roman Empire imploded and then collapsed in the fifth century, splitting into eastern and western halves, Aquileia was one of the cities that suffered as a result of the loss of the Empire’s protection. The city was utterly destroyed by the infamous Attila the Hun and his men in 452, which was actually Attila’s first major success as a conqueror of Roman Empire lands. The Roman Empire’s Crisis of the Third Century The Komnenian Dynasty: The Byzantine Royal Family That Kept Coming Back As the Byzantine Empire emerged in the old Roman territory to the east, centered in its capital city of Constantinople, the lands of Italy fell under the control of the Ostrogoths , a Germanic people from the west. They formed an uneasy alliance with the Byzantines, but in 540 Justinian I sent his forces into Italy as a part of his efforts to gain full control over the lands surrounding Rome. It was during this period when the Arian Goths were driven out of the area around Aquileia, after which Justinian would have been able to begin constructing the city ́s new basilica, which would be his gift to the people . The newly discovered basilica would have been built to help restore the Catholic faith in an area that had fallen under the influence of Christian heretics. But at the same time, it also would have served as a symbol of the reconquest of Upper Italy by Justinian I. The building would have faced southeast toward Constantinople and Jerusalem when it was still standing, announcing its connection to the centers of Byzantine power and the Christian religion respectively. Ultimately the emperor’s efforts to secure control of the western Roman lands proved to be in vain, and his enemies the Lombards seized control of Aquileia around the year 560. The city never came close to regaining the wealth and influence it enjoyed before it was sacked by Attila, yet it managed to survive despite the challenges it faced and continues to exist to this day (although with just 3,000 inhabitants). The Nexus of Politics and Religion in the Ancient Roman World Revealed Now recognized as a UNESCO World Heritage site, Aquileia holds the distinction of being the last of the great Roman cities that has yet to be fully excavated. As such it still has the capacity to produce the occasional surprise, as the discovery of the new basilica so clearly demonstrates. Interestingly, perhaps the most famous building in the city is another basilica that was first erected in the fourth century. This is the Basilica di Santa Maria Assunta, which functions at the village’s primary Catholic church. The present facade of this building was actually constructed in the 11th century, so it escaped destruction at the hands of the invaders who besieged Aquileia and likely damaged its sister basilica in the latter half of the sixth century. Outer façade of the Basilica di Santa Maria Assunta, a church in Aquileia, Italy constructed in the fourth and 11th centuries. ( Giovanni Dall ́Orto ). Now that this long-lost religious structure has been excavated, archaeologists have a better understanding of how religion and politics intersected in ancient Italy and the surrounding area. ‘The extent to which these ancient ‘geopolitical’ building measures even radiated into our region can be seen from the bishop's church of Teurnia in the village of St. Peter in Holz, Austria, which was adapted in the sixth century AD with a similar building plan to the new basilica of Aquileia,” Stefan Groh noted, referencing a once Byzantine-controlled village located around 60 miles (100 kilometers) north of the newly unearthed church. While Justinian I’s efforts to reestablish the old Roman Empire under Byzantine authority proved futile, the results of his attempt have left a lasting legacy in the archaeological record at Aquileia, at the site of what was once one of the Roman Empire’s most prosperous cities. Top image: Mosaic of Emperor Justinian I and his retinue, from the Church of Sa Vitale in Ravenna, Italy. Source: Carole Raddato/ CC BY-SA 2.0 . By Nathan Falde News Ancient Places Aquileia Christian basilica Byzantine EmpireNotable quotes by Jimmy Carter
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