- ... that Isidore of Miletus was the architect who, together with Anthemius of Tralles, designed the cathedral of Hagia Sophia in Constantinople?
- ... that the Byzantine emperor Nikephoros II allegedly insisted for taxes to be paid in the full-weight histamenon gold coin, but only paid back in the lighter tetarteron?
- ... that the Byzantine writer and diplomat Leo Choirosphaktes was imprisoned on his first embassy to Tsar Symeon of Bulgaria, but continued negotiations from his cell?
