Sophia

1630--1714, electress of Hanover (1658--1714), in whom the Act of Settlement (1701) vested the English Crown. She was a granddaughter of James I of England and her son became George I of Great Britain and Ireland

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Sophia

(religion, spiritualism, and occult)

Sophia, asteroid 251 (the 251st asteroid to be discovered, on October 4, 1885), is approximately 35 kilometers in diameter and has an orbital period of 5.4 years. The name Sophia means wisdom or cleverness in Greek. If other elements of a natal chart concur, Sophia shows wisdom or cleverness with respect to the matters indicated by its sign and house position. When afflicted, it may indicate false wisdom or sly cleverness.

Sources:

Kowal, Charles T. Asteroids: Their Nature and Utilization. Chichester, West Sussex, UK: Ellis Horwood Limited, 1988.

Room, Adrian. Dictionary of Astronomical Names. London: Routledge, 1988.

Schwartz, Jacob. Asteroid Name Encyclopedia. St. Paul, MN: Llewellyn Publications, 1995.

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Meeting Sophia

Even Hanson admits his "daughter" Sophia, though she's considered state-of-the-art now, may one day be seen as obsolete as a tape recorder; after all, as advanced as the Voyager space probes were when they were launched in the 1970s, they have far less computing power than today's smartphones or even the iPods of more than a decade ago.

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Caption: David Hanson, chairman and founder, Hanson Robotics with Sophia.

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"[T]he trial justice was understandably troubled that Anna never awoke when her baby 'was screaming' [while being fed], neither parent could provide an adequate explanation for Sophia's injuries, and neither 'ever asked, suspected or accused the other of causing any of her injuries," Suttell wrote.

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Hagia Sophia, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, was the foremost cathedral in Christendom for 900 years before becoming one of Islam's greatest mosques for 500 years until 1935, when it was converted to a museum.

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Hagia Sophia, dubbed 8th Wonder of the World" by historians, is one of the most visited museums in the world in terms of art and architecture history.It was used as a church for 916 years.

Hagia Sophia's status to be changed to mosque: Erdogan

Erdogan said that Hagia Sophia may start to function as a mosque-museum after the municipal elections to be held March 31 in Turkey.

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