Shahrbaraz

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A bile bear in a "crush cage" on Huizhou Farm, Huizhou , China

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01Ban Zhao completed the Han Shu (Book of Han) after her brother Ban Gu was executed in 92 CE — becoming China's first known female historian.
02Her Nüjie (Lessons for Women) prescribed that wives must address their husbands as 'lord' and never contradict them publicly.
03Ban Zhao was also a court astronomer who calculated calendrical corrections — her mathematical work circulated separately from her domestic ethics texts.

Shahrbaraz took Jerusalem in 614, hauled the True Cross to Ctesiphon, occupied Egypt — then murdered Emperor Khosrow II and ruled Persia for exactly 40 days before his own officers cut him down.