Eboracum The Imperial court was based in York until at least 211, in which year Severus died and was succeeded by his sons, Caracalla and Geta. A biographer, Cassius Dio, described a scene in which the Emperor utters the final words to his two sons on his death bed: "Agree with each other, make the soldiers rich, and ignore everyone else." Severus was cremated in Eboracum shortly after his death. Dio described the ceremony: "His body arrayed in military garb was placed upon a pyre, and as a mark of honour the soldiers and his sons ran about it and as
Joshua (name) Joshua (name) Joshua is a Biblical given name derived from the Hebrew "Yehoshua" (). The name was a common alternative form of the name – yēšūă which corresponds to the Greek spelling Ἰησοῦς ("Iesous"), from which, through the Latin "Iesus", comes the English spelling Jesus. As a result of the origin of the name, a majority of people before the 17th century who have this name were Jewish. A variant, truncated form of the name, Josh, gained popularity in the United States in the 1970s. Information from the United Kingdom's Office for National Statistics from 2003 to 2007 shows "Joshua"