* Variously given as Cabades, Cobad, Kavadh.
* She got Justinian to enact edicts freeing prostitutes from virtual slavery to brothel-owners, and enhancing women’s legal rights; she championed women’s rights (often over those of men) at every opportunity, and converted a palace into a hostel for the prostitutes she had liberated, where they were helped to begin new lives.
* An extreme example would be that of Aileen Wuornos, a prostitute (with a young female lover) who embarked on a killing spree of her male clients, whom she clearly despised.
* In Dan Brown’s cerebral thriller, The Lost Symbol, mind (according to Noetic Science), not only can affect mattter, it can actually create it. By extension, this could suggest that Mind (i.e. God) preceded and originated the laws of physics plus the Big Bang — which is consistent with the Catholic Aquinian argument for a Prime Mover.