* Cyrus Peirce ( 1790 – 1860 ), American educator, Unitarian minister, and the founding president of the first American public normal school

Cyrus Peirce, first president

A centerpiece of these changes was the creation of an experimental normal school, the first one in the United States, in Lexington, in July of 1839, with Cyrus Peirce as its first principal or president.

* Cyrus Peirce, graduate of Framingham Academy circa 1806 and first head of what is now Framingham State College

600 BC or 576 BC – 530 BC ) – also known as Cyrus II – the grandson of Cyrus I, an Achaemenid ruler and the founder of the Great Persian Empire

This situation was resolved due to the efforts of Cyrus Adler, professor of Semitic languages at Johns Hopkins University and founder of the Jewish Publication Society, who convinced a number of wealthy German Reform Jews including Jacob Schiff, David and Simon Guggenheim, Mayer Sulzberger, and Louis Marshall, to contribute $ 500, 000 to the faltering JTS.

Maka was an important early eastern satrapy of Cyrus the Great, founder of the Achaemenid Empire.

He was the nephew of Cyrus McCormick, founder of the agricultural machinery company that became International Harvester.

Cyrus the Great, founder of the Achaemenid dynasty, resolved to complete the conquest of Anatolia as a prelude to operations further west, to be carried out by his successors.

Originally named Strawbridge by founder Cyrus W. “ Charley ” Wilson, the name was later changed in honor of railroad Engineer Joseph P. Sanderson.

Xenophon, for example, wrote the Cyropaedia, a laudatory fictionalised account of Cyrus the Great, the founder of the Persian empire, effectively a utopian text.

He was apparently a great-grandson of its founder Achaemenes, grandson of Teispes and son of Cyrus I.

In 1943, having been a widower for five years, he married the school's founder, Mary Louise Curtis Bok, daughter of publisher, Cyrus Curtis, and 14 years his senior.

Cyrus II of Persia (, Old Persian: Kuruš ; c. 600 BC or 576 BC – 530 BC ), commonly known as Cyrus the Great, also known as Cyrus the Elder, was the founder of the Achaemenid Empire.

In his last expedition against the Saka tribe of Massagetae and shortly before his death in that battle, king Cyrus the Great the founder of the Persian Empire founded a city here which he named after himself.

The more ancient history of Iran was forgotten, and even the name of Cyrus, the founder of the Persian state, was unknown.

Although Songcatcher is a fictional film, it is loosely based on the work of Olive Dame Campbell, founder of the John C. Campbell Folk School in Brasstown, North Carolina and that of the English folk song collector Cecil Sharp, portrayed at the end of the film as professor Cyrus Whittle.

* In 1858, Cyrus West Field laid the first transatlantic telegraph cable ( it quickly failed ).

The first charter of human rights by Cyrus the Great as understood in the Cyrus cylinder is often seen as a reflection of the questions and thoughts expressed by Zarathustra and developed in Zoroastrian schools of thought of the Achaemenid Era of Iranian history.

* 1858 – Cyrus West Field and others complete the first transatlantic telegraph cable after several unsuccessful attempts.

Its subject is the Return to Zion following the close of the Babylonian captivity, and it is divided into two parts, the first telling the story of the first return of exiles in the first year of Cyrus the Great ( 538 BC ) and the completion and dedication of the new Temple in Jerusalem in the sixth year of Darius ( 515 BC ), the second telling of the subsequent mission of Ezra to Jerusalem and his struggle to purify the Jews from the sin of marriage with non-Jews.

The Book of Ezra consists of ten chapters: chapters 1-6, covering the period from the Decree of Cyrus to the dedication of the Second Temple, are told in the third person ; chapters 7-10, dealing with the mission of Ezra, are told largely in the first person.

Decree of Cyrus, first version: Cyrus, inspired by God, returns the Temple vessels to Sheshbazzar, " prince of Judah ", and directs the Israelites to return to Jerusalem with him and rebuild the Temple.

A list of priests and Levites who returned in the days of Cyrus ( the first returnees from Babylon ) is presented ; Nehemiah, aided by Ezra, oversees the dedication of the walls and the rebuilt city.

He also neglected the rise of powerful new enemies, first the Medes, then the Persians under Cyrus the Great.

The " servant of Yahweh " can be interpreted as any of three plausible characters: the first is an individual chosen by God, like Moses, Hezekiah, Josiah, Cyrus, etc., who is identified as a messianic figure of the future.

In 538 BCE, the famous Edict of Cyrus was released, and the first return took place under Sheshbazzar.

File: London 307. JPG | Room 52-The Cyrus Cylinder ; is regarded by many as the world ’ s first documented charter of human rights

* Cyrus West Field, American businessman who successfully laid the first transatlantic telegraph cable

A disciple of Baruch ben Neriah, he favored study of the Law over the reconstruction of the Temple and thus because of his studies, he did not join the first party returning to Jerusalem in the reign of Cyrus.

According to the biblical history, one of the first acts of Cyrus, the Persian conqueror of Babylon, was to commission the Jewish exiles to return to Jerusalem and rebuild the Temple, a task which they are said to have completed c. 515.

Tabalus, appointed by Cyrus the Great, was the first satrap ( governor ).

Cyrus Dallin sculpted the first angel which was identified as Moroni.

Plutarch said the inhabitants of Caria carried the emblem of the rooster on the end of their lances and relates that origin to Artaxerxes, who awarded a Carian who was said to have killed Cyrus the Younger at the battle of Cunaxa in 401 B. C " the privilege of carrying ever after a golden cock upon his spear before the first ranks of the army in all expeditions " and the Carians also wore crested helmets at the time of Herodotus, for which reason " the Persians gave the Carians the name of cocks ".

The first transatlantic telegraph cable had been laid in 1858 ( see Cyrus West Field ).

* August 5 – Cyrus West Field and others complete the first transatlantic telegraph cable after several unsuccessful attempts.

When the first transatlantic telegraph cable was laid in 1858 by businessman Cyrus West Field, it operated for only a month ; subsequent attempts in 1865 and 1866 were more successful.

Billy Ray Cyrus ' 1992 hit " Achy Breaky Heart ", helped catapult western line dancing into the mainstream public consciousness.

One example was the Amalgamated Association of Street Car Employees ( AASCE ) in 1912 which, with the aid of Cyrus S. Ching as company negotiator for Boston's public transit system, reached a system-wide agreement for all transit workers.

A key work in increasing public knowledge of the origins of the mounds was the 1894 report by Cyrus Thomas of the Bureau of American Ethnology ( now Smithsonian Institution ).

The Wraith attempted to stop Cyrus " The Colossus " Rhodes from escaping prison, but was unable to fool the villain now that the secret was public, forcing the Autobots to stop the Rhodes and making The Wraith look foolish.