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* July – The Temple of Artemis at Ephesus is burned down by a madman named Herostratus, destroying one of the Seven Wonders of the World.
* Herostratus is a 1967 British film by Australian film-maker Don Levy about a man who plans a spectacular public suicide.
* " Herostratus " is a 2001 Armenian film co-written ( with Armen Vatyan ) and directed by Rouben Kochar.

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* In Ancient Greece, Herostratus set fire to the Temple of Artemis in Ephesus to become famous.
In the Hellenics, Theopompus mentions Herostratus and his arson of the Temple of Artemis, thus helping Herostratus to his goal of achieving fame, despite the Ephesian authorities forbidding mention of his name under penalty of death.
Herostratus ( Greek: ) was an arsonist.
Far from attempting to evade responsibility for his act of arson, Herostratus proudly claimed credit in an attempt to immortalise his name.
However, this did not stop Herostratus from achieving his goal as the ancient historian Theopompus recorded the event and its perpetrator in his Hellenics.
Herostratus ' name lived on in classical literature and has passed into modern languages as a term for someone who commits a criminal act in order to bask in the resultant notoriety.
* Chaucer makes reference to Herostratus in The House of Fame: " I am that ylke shrewe, ywis ,/ That brende the temple of Ysidis / In Athenes, loo, that citee.
* Many authors from sixteenth and seventeenth-century Spain refer to Herostratus to represent someone who will do anything to gain notoriety.
* The song " Herostratus vs. Time " by the indie rock band Shinobu refers to Herostratus and his actions throughout.
* In the March 25, 1945 episode of The Shadow, The Destroyer, the villain takes his inspiration from Herostratus.
Dinocrates collaborated with Paeonius of Ephesus and Demetrius in reconstructing the Temple of Artemis — one of the seven wonders of the world — which had been destroyed by Herostratus in an act of arson on July 21, 356 BC, the same night, it was said, that Alexander was being born.
Herostratus, a young Greek man arsoned the Temple of Artemis ( one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World ) in 356 BC in order to immortalize his name.

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* In the episode " 11: 59 " of Star Trek: Voyager's fifth season ( original air date: May 5, 1999 ), Earth's first self-contained ecosystem known as " The Millennium Gate " is referenced and described as one kilometer tall and having begun construction in 2001.
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In this format, the sprite is referenced to one of 8 palettes, where each palette holds 3 assignable colors.
* The title is referenced in Marvel One-Shots A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Thor's Hammer and is included on the Captain America: The First Avenger Blu-ray Disc and DVD releases.
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It is convenient to identify a reference configuration or initial condition which all subsequent configurations are referenced from.
The " Birth " referenced is that of Jesus.
It is also of cultural significance, as it is referenced in several songs and literature, including the Martin Fierro.
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# Anything referenced from a reachable object is itself reachable ; more formally, reachability is a transitive closure.

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An Andrei Sakharov prize is also to be awarded by the American Physical Society every second year from 2006, " to recognize outstanding leadership and / or achievements of scientists in upholding human rights ".
* Intersection of Ventura blvd and Laurel Canyon blvd in Studio City, Los Angeles is named Andrei Sakharov Square.
Andrei Sakharov with a group of Soviet dissidents, Sakharov is the first from right, the first from the left is Naum Meiman from Moscow Helsinki Group
Arkady Volsky, an aide to Andropov and other general secretaries, recounts an episode that occurred after a Politburo meeting on the day following Andropov's demise: As Politburo members filed out of the conference hall, either Andrei Gromyko or ( in later accounts ) Dmitriy Ustinov is said to have put his arm round Nikolai Tikhonov's shoulders and said: " It's okay, Kostya is an agreeable guy ( pokladisty muzhik ), one can do business with him ...." The Politburo failed to pass the decision for Gorbachev, who was nominally Chernenko's second in command, to run the meetings of the Politburo itself in the absence of Chernenko ; the latter due to his declining health, began to miss those meetings with increasing frequency.
Sendhil Mullainathan and Andrei Shleifer of Harvard University construct a behavioural model, which is built around the assumption that readers and viewers hold beliefs that they would like to see confirmed by news providers.
* The Odyssey ( 1997 ), a made-for-TV movie directed by Andrei Konchalovsky, is a slightly abbreviated version of the epic.
Their earliest common ancestor is one Andrei Kobyla, attested as a boyar in the service of Semyon I of Moscow.
A typical example is the Soviet Union where the dissidents, such as Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and Andrei Sakharov were under strong pressure from the government.
" This is a reference to fellow filmmakers Yasujirō Ozu, François Truffaut, and Andrei Tarkovsky.
* 2 October 1996 – The former prime minister of Bulgaria, Andrei Lukanov, is assassinated.
** The former prime minister of Bulgaria, Andrei Lukanov, is assassinated.
* January 22 – Andrei Sakharov, Soviet scientist and human rights activist, is arrested in Moscow.
* November 12 – Soviet author Andrei Amalrik is sentenced to 3 years for ' anti-Soviet ' writings.
* December 19 – Soviet dissident Andrei Sakharov is permitted to return to Moscow after years of internal exile.
* Silver Dove, Andrei Bely's first novel ( 1910 ) is based on khlysty.
Russian literature is known for such notable writers as Aleksandr Pushkin, Leo Tolstoy, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Anton Chekhov, Vladimir Mayakovsky, Boris Pasternak, Anna Akhmatova, Joseph Brodsky, Maxim Gorky, Vladimir Nabokov, Mikhail Sholokhov, Mikhail Bulgakov, Andrei Platonov, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, and Varlam Shalamov.
Andrei Tarkovsky held Bresson in very high regard, noting him and Ingmar Bergman as his two favourite filmmakers, stating " I am only interested in the views of two people: one is called Bresson and one called Bergman ".
He is coauthor ( with Andrei Suslin and Eric M. Friedlander ) of Cycles, Transfers and Motivic Homology Theories, which develops the theory of motivic cohomology in some detail.
Though the Silver Age is famous mostly for its poetry, it produced some first-rate novelists and short-story writers, such as Aleksandr Kuprin, Nobel Prize winner Ivan Bunin, Leonid Andreyev, Fedor Sologub, Aleksey Remizov, Yevgeny Zamyatin, Dmitry Merezhkovsky and Andrei Bely, though most of them wrote poetry as well as prose.
As the battle is about to start, Prince Andrei, one of the main characters, thinks that the approaching " day be his Toulon, or his Arcola ," references to Napoleon's early victories.
This view is disputed by authors, such as Russian economists Boris Lvin and Andrei Illarionov, who argue that Russian emigration from the area was no more intense than in other regions of Russia at the time.
It is unknown if Andrei the Younger signed a treaty.

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