Alexander was the son of King Philip II of Macedon and of Epirote princess Olympias. According to Plutarch (Alexander 3.1,3), Olympias was impregnated not by Philip, who was afraid of her and her affinity for sleeping in the company of snakes, but by Zeus. Plutarch (Alexander 2.2-3) relates that both Philip and Olympias dreamt of their son's future birth. Olympias dreamed of a loud burst of thunder and of lightning striking her womb. In Philip's dream, he sealed her womb with the seal of the lion. Alarmed by this, he consulted the seer Aristander of Telmessus, who determined that his wife was pregnant and ...

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Alexander the Great - The defeat of the Persian Empire. Alexander's army had crossed the Hellespont with about 42,000 soldiers---primarily Macedonians1 and Greeks, but also including some Thracians, Paionians and Illyrians. After an initial victory against Persian forces at the Battle of Granicus, Alexander accepted the surrender of the Persian provincial capital and treasury of Sardis and proceeded down the Ionian coast. At Halicarnassus, Alexander successfully waged the fi ...

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Alexander the Great (in Greek Μέγας Αλέξανδρος, transliterated Megas Alexandros; born in Pella, Macedon, in July, 356 BC, died in Babylon, on June 10, 323 BC), King of Macedon 336–323 BC, is arguably the most successful military commander in world history, conquering most of the known world before his death. Alexander is also known in the Zoroastrian Middle Persian work Arda Wiraz Nāmag as "the accursed Alexander" due to his conquest of the ...

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George Alexander Kohut (April 22, 1842 – May 25, 1894) was a rabbi and orientalist; born at Felegyhaza, Hungary; died in New York. He belonged to a family of rabbis, the most noted among them being R. Israel Palota, his great-grandfather, R. Amram (called "The Gaon," who died in Safed, Palestine, where he had spent the last years of his life), and R. Chayyim Kitssee, rabbi in Erza, who was his great-granduncle. Th ...

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Flavius Belisarius (505-565) was one of the greatest generals of the Byzantine Empire and one of the greatest generals in history. Belisarius is not particularly well known today (certainly nowhere as near as well-known as Julius Caesar, or Alexander the Great), but this is due more to a lack of attention to Byzantine history than to his skill and accomplishments, which were matched by few, if any, military commanders. Belisarius - Early life and career. Belisarius was probably born in Germane or ...

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Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson (born 19 June 1964 in New York City), better known as Boris Johnson (and occasionally as 'Bo-Jo' within the UK tabloid press) is a British Conservative politician and journalist, with a distinctive scatty and eccentric public persona. He is Member of Parliament for Henley and also Shadow Minister for Higher Education. Boris Johnson - Early life. He was one of the four children born to Stanley Johnson and his first wife, Charlotte Johnson-Wahl. He is the great-grands ...

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Aristotle (Greek: Αριστοτέλης Aristotelēs 384 BC – March 7, 322 BC) was an ancient Greek philosopher, student of Plato and teacher of Alexander the Great. He wrote many books about physics, poetry, zoology, logic, rhetoric, government, and biology. Aristotle, along with Plato and Socrates, is generally considered one of the most influential ancient Greek philosophers in Western thought. They transformed Presocratic Greek philosophy into the foundations of Western philosophy as we know it. The writings of Plato an ...

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In 1866 there was an attempt on his life in Petersburg by Dmitry Karakozov. To commemorate his narrow escape from death (that he referred to only as "the event of April 4, 1866") he held a competition to design a great gate for the city. Architect, painter and costume designer Viktor Hartmann won the competition. The design was well-received and Hartmann thought it was his finest work, but it would never be built. The painting of the design later became Mussorgsky's inspiration for ...

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In his second, successful campaign for governor, Lamar Alexander walked 1,000 miles across Tennessee in his now famous red and black plaid shirt. He is a classical and country pianist and the author of seven books, including Six Months Off, the story of his family's life in Australia after he was governor. He is married to the former Honey Buhler of Victoria, Texas. They have four children. The Alexanders’ home is outside Maryville at the edge of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. He is an e ...

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In 1900, Zemlinsky met Alma Schindler (later Alma Mahler) and fell in love with her. He helped her to work on some of the songs she was writing. His love was reciprocated, though Alma felt a great deal of pressure from close friends and family to end the relationship. They were primarily concerned with Zemlinsky's lack of a significant international reputation and what some believed to be an objectionable physical appearance. Eventually she caved to the pressure, and broke off the relationship with Zemlinsky. She met Gustav Mahler in 1901, a ...

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The Russians long cherished the memory of Suvorov. A great captain, viewed from the standpoint of any age of military history, he functions specially as the great captain of the Russian nation, for the character of his leadership responded to the character of the Russian soldier. In an age when war had become an act of diplomacy he restored its true significance as an act of force. He had a great simplicity of manner, and while on a campaign lived as a private soldier, sleeping on straw and contenting himself with the humblest fare. But he had himself passed ...

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From 1777 to 1783 Suvorov served in the Crimea and in the Caucasus, becoming a lieutenant-general in 1780, and general of infantry in 1783, on the conclusion of his work there. From 1787 to 1791 he again fought the Turks during the Russo-Turkish War of 1787–1792 and won many victories; he was wounded twice at Kinburn (1787), took part in the siege of Ochakov, and in 1788 won two great victories at Focsani and by the river Rimnik. In both these battles an Austrian corps under Prince Josias of Saxe-Coburg participated but at Rimnik Su ...

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In 1946, he was replaced as governor-general of Canada by The Earl Alexander of Tunis. Alexander returned to the United Kingdom to retirement at his residence in Kensington Palace. He attended the coronation of his great-niece, Queen Elizabeth II in 1953 and other major royal events; however, he carried out few royal appearances on his own. Alexander died at Kensington Palace on January 16, 1957. He was buried at Frogmore Royal Burial Ground, Windsor. With his death, the earldom of Athlone became extinct. His wife s ...

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During the later period of his life, Blok concentrated primarily on political themes, pondering upon the messianic destination of his country (Vozmezdie, 1910-21; Rodina, 1907-16; Skify, 1918). In keeping with Solovyov's doctrines, he was full of vague apocalyptic apprehensions and often passed from hope to despair. Throughout the summer of 1917, for example, he was vexed with distant lightnings and smokiness of air. "I feel that the great event is coming, but what exactly is not revealed to me", he wrote in his much-rea ...

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In 1855 Alexander became Emperor, which forced her to attend more State functions whether she was ill or not. Although Alexander II always treated her well, she knew from 1858 onwards that his feelings were for someone else. In 1865, the death of her eldest and favourite son, the Tsarevich Nicholas, was a great blow. Every now and again she was able to go to her brother Alexander who lived with his morganatic wife in Heiligenberg. There she met Princess Alice of the United Kingdom, daughter of Victoria of the United Kingdom and Prince ...

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Maria Alexandrovna, Maria Alexandrovna - Early life, Maria Alexandrovna - Marriage, Maria Alexandrovna - Empress, Maria Alexandrovna - Children

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In the great political decisions of those days, Constantine took the smallest part. His importance in political history dates only from the moment when the emperor Alexander entrusted him in Poland with a task which enabled him to concentrate all the one-sidedness of his talents and all the doggedness of his nature on a definite object: that of the militarization and discipline of Poland. With this begins the part played by the grand-duke in history. In the Congress Poland created by Alexander he received the post of commander-in-chief of th ...

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Grand Duke Constantine Pavlovich of Russia, Grand Duke Constantine Pavlovich of Russia - Early life, Grand Duke Constantine Pavlovich of Russia - Napoleonic Wars, Grand Duke Constantine Pavlovich of Russia - Governor of Poland, Grand Duke Constantine Pavlovich of Russia - One inch from the throne

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There is often a debate between Egyptologists and Afrocentric historians as to what race Cleopatra belonged to. Egyptologists say that Cleopatra was descended from the Ptolemaic dynasty, a Macedonian family, whose patriach Ptolemy I Soter was once a general for Alexander the Great. Ptolemy I was the son of Arsinoe of Macedonia by either her husband Lagus, a Macedonian nobleman, or her lover Philip II of Macedon. Egyptologists say the Ptolemaic family tree indicates that there was a great deal of interbreeding in the family, and that b ...

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Maud was born at East Sheen Lodge, London on April 3, 1893. Her father was Alexander Duff, 1st Duke of Fife (1840 - 1912), the son of James Duff, 5th Earl Fife and his wife, the former Lady Agnes Hay. He was created Duke of Fife following marriage to Maud's mother, Princess Louise, Duchess of Fife, the eldest daughter of The Prince Albert Edward, Prince of Wales (later King Edward VII) and Alexandra of Denmark. As a female line great granddaughter of the British monarch, (Queen Victoria), Maud was not entitled to the title of a Prince ...

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Princess Beatrice was born on April 20, 1884 at Eastwell Park, Kent. Her father was Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh, the second eldest son of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha. Her mother was The Duchess of Edinburgh (née Grand Duchess Marie Alexandrovna of Russia), the only daughter of Alexander II of Russia and Marie of Hesse and by Rhine. As a granddaughter of the British monarch in the male line, Beatrice held the title of Princess of the United Kingdom of Great ...

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