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They are heard of in the time of Alexander, when some of the king's biographers make mention of Amazon Queen Thalestris visiting him and becoming a mother by him ( the story is known from the Alexander Romance ).
Plutarch tells a story that at Bactra, in 327 BC in a debate with Callisthenes, he advised all to worship Alexander as a god even during his lifetime, is with greater probability attributed to the Sicilian Cleon.
By the time Esther was written, the foreign power visible on the horizon as a future threat to Judah was the Macedonians of Alexander the Great, who defeated the Persian empire about 150 years after the time of the story of Esther ; the Septuagint version noticeably calls Haman a " bully " ( βουγαῖον ) where the Hebrew text describes him as an Agagite.
The author based part of his narrative on the story of the Scottish castaway Alexander Selkirk, who spent four years stranded on the island of Juan Fernandez.
In addition, the " royal road " anecdote is questionable since it is similar to a story told about Menaechmus and Alexander the Great.
In the centuries following the conquest of western Asia by Alexander the Great, each story was retold to more closely resemble the other.
The story first appeared in the press on November 7, 1994, in an article in Electronic Engineering Times, " Intel fixes a Pentium FPU glitch " by Alexander Wolfe.
Under Diaghilev's guidance, Prokofiev chose his subject from a collection of folktales by the ethnographer Alexander Afanasyev ; the story, concerning a buffoon and a series of confidence tricks, had been previously suggested to Diaghilev by Igor Stravinsky as a possible subject for a ballet, and Diaghilev and his choreographer Léonide Massine helped Prokofiev to shape this into a ballet scenario.
The traditional story is that Ptolemy II sponsored the translation for use by the many Alexandrian Jews who were fluent in Koine Greek ( the lingua franca of the Eastern Mediterranean from the death of Alexander the Great in 323 BCE, until the development of Byzantine Greek around 600 CE ), but not in Hebrew.
Postgate wrote Alexander the Mouse, a story about a mouse born to be king.
* The critically acclaimed award winning The Last Confession of Alexander Pearce tells the true story of Alexander Pearce through his final confession to fellow Irishman and colonial priest Philip Conolly.
* The feature film Van Diemen's Land focuses on the true story of convict Alexander Pearce and his infamous escape from Macquarie Harbour in 1822.
It may have been influenced in part by Alexander Pushkin's 1824 poem " The Gypsies ", a work which Mérimée had translated into French ; it has also been suggested that the story was developed from an incident told to Mérimée by his friend the Countess Montijo.
Welsh, Ian Rankin, and Alexander McCall Smith each contributed a short story for the One City compilation published in 2005 in benefit of the One City Trust for social inclusion in Edinburgh.
The story was perhaps influenced by the life of Alexander Selkirk, a Scottish castaway who lived for four years on the Pacific island called " Más a Tierra " ( in 1966 its name was changed to Robinson Crusoe Island ), Chile.
His son Alexander MacLeod is also a writer, whose debut short story collection Light Lifting was a Scotiabank Giller Prize finalist in 2010.
In March 2010, Disney Channel aired a version of the story, Blog Wars, with Wizards of Waverly Place cast member Jennifer Stone as Harriet, Alexander Conti from Cheaper by the Dozen 2 as Harriet's friend Sport, and Degrassi: The Next Generations Melinda Shankar as Janie.
Johnson's story is the basis of the play and subsequent 1970 movie The Great White Hope, starring James Earl Jones as Johnson ( known as Jack Jefferson in the movie ), and Jane Alexander as his love interest.
This story is parodied in Alexander Pope's The Rape of the Lock.
The story is similar to the one told about Alexander.
Most likely the story is merely propaganda by Seleucus, who presumably invented the story to present himself as the natural successor of Alexander.

story and Selkirk
Among those interested in Selkirk's adventure was Daniel Defoe, who sought out Selkirk, and fictionalised the story as Robinson Crusoe.
When the Success departed the area, Clipperton left two men marooned as punishment on Juan Fernandez island which Alexander Selkirk ( who was the basis of the Robinson Crusoe story ) had been marooned on years before.

story and 1841
Le Fanu wrote this story after the death of his elder sister Catherine in March 1841.
The Main Building of the fort is a two story adobe structure built between 1841 and 1843.
This is historically inaccurate, however, because the opening credits state that this part of the story takes place in the year 1841.
The earliest fully-fledged example of this type of story is generally held to be Edgar Allan Poe's The Murders in the Rue Morgue, which appeared in 1841.
Multiple versions of this tale are recorded, and the story was further popularised after one of these was recounted by John Lloyd Stephens in his influential 1841 book, Incidents of Travel in Central America, Chiapas, and Yucatan.
Charles Mackay, in his Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds ( 1841 ), considers the entire story a hoax.
Although Moonstone is often seen as the first detective novel, Edgar Allan Poe's short story mysteries, The Murders in the Rue Morgue ( 1841 ) and The Purloined Letter ( 1845 ) were published before The Moonstone.
" In July 1841, Poe published " A Few Words on Secret Writing " and, realizing the interest in the topic, wrote " The Gold-Bug " as one of the few pieces of literature to incorporate ciphers as part of the story.
The story takes place during the Santa Fe Expedition of 1841, when Goodnight would have been only five years old.
One of the earliest uses of the Scandinavian word ( malström or malstrøm ) was by Edgar Allan Poe in his story " A Descent into the Maelström " ( 1841 ).
The first is the Edgar Allan Poe story " A Descent into the Maelström " ( 1841 ).
The story chronicled the life of Solomon Northup, a free man from New York kidnapped and sold into slavery in 1841 and held until 1853, when he regained his freedom.
Most of Runciman's historical works deal with Byzantium and her medieval neighbours between Sicily and Syria ; one exception is The White Rajahs, published in 1960, which tells the story of Sarawak, an independent state founded on the northern coast of Borneo in 1841 by an Englishman James Brooke, and ruled by the Brooke family for more than a century.
Dupin made his first appearance in Poe's " The Murders in the Rue Morgue " ( 1841 ), widely considered the first detective fiction story.
This story was based on the true story of Mary Rogers, a saleswoman at a cigar store in Manhattan whose body was found floating in the Hudson River in 1841.
The second and third volumes of this history ( 1923 ) carried the story up to 1841.
Although conceived in 1863 as Les Deux Cloportes (" The Two Woodlice "), and partially inspired by a short story of Barthélemy Maurice ( Les Deux Greffiers, " The Two Court Clerks ", which appeared in La Revue des Tribunaux in 1841 and which he may have read in 1858 ), Flaubert did not begin the work in earnest until 1872, at a time when financial ruin threatened.
In 1841, Georgiana Molloy related a different story of Vasse's survival in a letter to Captain James Mangles, but gave no provenance for her version of events.
Edgar Allan Poe, in his 1841 story, " A Descent into the Maelström ", has the main character describe how " the most terrible hurricane that ever came out of the heavens " forced the boat manned by himself and his brothers into a gigantic whirlpool.

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