Alexander's band, an optical phenomenon, is named after him.

Steam phase eruption of Castle Geyser demonstrates primary and secondary rainbow s and Alexander's band in Yellowstone National Park

* Alexander's band, the dark region between the two bows of a double rainbow.

ARB ( Alexander's Ragtime Band ) is a Japanese rock band formed in 1978.

With the help of these warlike clans from the north-west frontier, whom Justin brands as " a band of robbers ", Chandragupta managed to defeat, upon Alexander's death, the Macedonian satraps of Punjab and Afghanistan and the Nanda ruler of Magadha, thereby laying the foundations of a powerful Maurya Empire in northern and north-western India.

After completing the tour on November 21, 1971, in Groningen, the band planned to start recording a new album, but band manager Steve Sesnick sent all of the band but Yule home, presumably to retain maximum control of the product ( the resulting album was Squeeze, released in 1973 ) and effectively ending Alexander's time with the band.

Alexander's band lies between them.

Alexander's band

Alexander's band or Alexander's dark band is an optical phenomenon associated with rainbows which was named after Alexander of Aphrodisias who first described it in 200 AD.

Between the two bows lies an area of unlit sky referred to as Alexander's band.

Alexander's band is the area between the primary and secondary rainbows.

To the south lies the seaward extremity of the Caucasian wall ( fifty metres long ), otherwise known as Alexander's Wall, blocking the narrow pass of the Iron Gate or Caspian Gates ( Portae Athanae or Portae Caspiae ).

Alexander's dedication of On Fate to Septimius Severus and Caracalla, in gratitude for his position at Athens, indicates a date between 198 and 209.

Henry's unsuccessful attempts to persuade his subjects to pay the taxes required to meet Alexander's demands were one of the factors in the conflict between the king and parliament which culminated in the Second Barons ' War.

The empire was put under the authority of a regent in the person of Perdiccas in 323 BC, and the territories were divided between Alexander's generals, who thereby became satraps, at the Partition of Babylon in 323 BC.

After Alexander's death, the Macedonian empire was eventually divided up between generals in Alexander's army.

The buildings were mostly completed between 1152 when the monks arrived in Kirkstall and the end of Alexander's abbacy in 1182.

For example, the section between the cities Hecatompylos and Alexandria Areion, which later became a part of the silk road, was given by Alexander's bematists as 529 English miles long, that is with a deviation of 0. 4 % from the actual distance ( 531 English miles ).

Nevertheless, Arrian's work gives a reasonably full account of Alexander's life during the campaign, and in his personal assessment of Alexander he steers a judicious course between flattery and condemnation.

Alexander's early life alternated between the Royal Palace in Athens, and the Tatoï Palace in the city's suburbs.

A conflict exploded between Perdiccas, leader of the cavalry, and Meleager, who commanded the phalanx: the first wanted to wait to see if Roxana, Alexander's pregnant wife, would deliver a male baby, while the second objected that Arrhidaeus was the closest relative living and so should be chosen king.

The entire region was heavily contested between the successor states of Alexander's empire, the Seleucid Empire and Ptolemaic Egypt, during the six Syrian Wars of the 3rd – 1st centuries BCE: " After two centuries of peace under the Persians, the Hebrew state found itself once more caught in the middle of power struggles between two great empires: the Seleucid state with its capital in Syria to the north and the Ptolemaic state, with its capital in Egypt to the south ... Between 319 and 302 BCE, Jerusalem changed hands seven times.

Heavy and faithful use of real world setting for inspiration, as in Barry Hughart's Bridge of Birds, clearly derived from China, or Lloyd Alexander's use of real world cultures such as Welsh for The Chronicles of Prydain or Indian for The Iron Ring, make the line between fantasy worlds and alternate histories fuzzy.

Lucian, writing in his book On Slips of the Tongue describes an occasion when Hephaestion's conversation one morning implied that he had been in Alexander's tent all night, and Plutarch describes the intimacy between them when he tells how Hephaestion was in the habit of reading Alexander's letters with him, and of a time when he showed that the contents of a letter were to be kept secret by touching his ring to Hephaestion's lips.

Plutarch recounts that Alexander took Barsine as his mistress, but on the arguably spurious grounds that she was recommended to him by Parmenion ( despite the many disagreements between him and Alexander, and Alexander's apparent contempt for his judgement ).

At the Bourbon restoration General Pozzo di Borgo became Russian ambassador at the Tuileries, and sought to secure a marriage between Charles Ferdinand, Duke of Berry, and the Russian grandduchess Anna, Alexander's sister.

Alexander's plan was to firstly establish his forces on a line between Licata in the west and Catania in the east before embarking on operations to reduce the rest of the island.

The marked reconciliation between the Emperor and the Empress caused general surprise " I am reduced to thinking of myself sometimes as Alexander's mistress, or as if we had been married secretly ..." Elizabeth wrote to her mother.

* 323 BCE: The city comes under the rule of Laomedon of Mytilene, who is given control of the province of Syria following Alexander's death and the resulting Partition of Babylon between the Diadochi.

In his journal article " Alexander and the Ganges " ( 1923 ), the 20th century historian W. W. Tarn calls a list and description of satrapies of Alexander's Empire written between 324 and 323 BC as an ancient gazetteer.

Instead, within a few years of Alexander's death, the diadochi began fighting with each other, dividing up the Empire between themselves, and triggering 40 years of warfare.

The first confrontation between Europeans and the Persian war elephants occurred at the Alexander's Battle of Gaugamela ( 331 BC ), where the Persians deployed fifteen elephants.

After Alexander's death, the Macedonian empire was eventually divided up between generals in Alexander's army.

The Boston Red Sox defeated Grover Cleveland Alexander's Cubs four games to two in the 1918 World Series.

There, two of Alexander's instructors — the future field marshals Alan Brooke and Bernard Montgomery — were unimpressed by him.

The Axis forces in Tunisia surrendered by May 1943, and Alexander's command became the 15th Army Group, which was, under Eisenhower, responsible for mounting in July the Allied invasion of Sicily, again seeing Alexander controlling two armies: Montgomery's Eighth Army and George S. Patton's Seventh United States Army.

In the years from 1281 to 1284, Alexander's two sons and one daughter died in quick succession.

Alexandra's widowed sister, the Dowager Empress, leant heavily on her for support ; Alexandra slept, prayed, and stayed beside her sister for the next two weeks until Alexander's burial.

The island of Perim divides the strait into two channels, of which the eastern, known as the Bab Iskender ( Alexander's Strait ), is 2 miles ( 3 km ) wide and 16 fathoms ( 30 m ) deep, while the western, or Dact-el-Mayun, has a width of about 16 miles ( 25 km ) and a depth of 170 fathoms ( 310 m ).

He argued that A Shrew was simply too different from The Shrew to come under the bad quarto banner, unlike Alexander's other examples of bad quartos The First part of the Contention betwixt the two famous Houses of Yorke and Lancaster and The True Tragedy of Richard Duke of Yorke.

The cultural dominance of the Athenian Empire and the later adoption of Attic Greek by king Philip II of Macedon ( 382-336 BC ), father of the conqueror Alexander the Great, were the two keys that ensured the eventual victory of Attic over other Greek dialects and the spread of its descendant, Koine, throughout Alexander's Hellenic empire.

Alexander's funeral was held in Athens Cathedral two days after his death.

C. Alexander's patterns, for instance, each consist of a short name, a rating ( up to two '*' symbols ), a sensitizing picture, the context description, the problem statement, a longer part of text with examples and explanations, a solution statement, a sketch and further references.

A number of his paintings were taken to Rome ( including Aphrodite Anadyomene ) and placed there on public display ; in two compositions featuring portraits of Alexander ( Castor and Pollux with Victory and Alexander the Great, and The Figure of War with his Hands Tied Behind Him Following the Triumphal Chariot of Alexander ) the Emperor Claudius later had Alexander's face replaced with that of his grandfather Augustus.

After Alexander's death in 323 BCE, Chandragupta, turned his attention to Northwestern India ( modern Pakistan ), where he defeated the satrapies ( described as " prefects " in classical Western sources ) left in place by Alexander ( according to Justin ), and may have assassinated two of his governors, Nicanor and Philip.

This dual appointment was a way of satisfying two divergent shades of opinion now hardening throughout the army, one, like Hephaestion, broadly supportive of Alexander's policy of integration, and the other, that of Philip's older veterans in particular, whose implacable resentment of Persian ways was well represented by Cleitus.

Already the two were intimate, Patroclus and Achilles even to those around them ; the comparison would remain to the end of their days and is proof of their life as lovers, for by Alexander's time, Achilles and Patroclus were agreed to have enjoyed the relationship which Homer himself had never directly mentioned.

Between the two, they have four children, Alexander's son — Jace, a television director — and Sherin's three sons — Tony, Geoffrey, and Jon.

On June 4, he had two triples and two RBIs as the Cardinals defeated the Chicago Cubs 5 – 1, a game that ended future Hall of Famer Grover Cleveland Alexander's 11-game winning streak.

Alexander became friends with Grover Cleveland and the two spent many hours hunting for ducks in Alexander's estate.

Henderson believed that the evidence showed that Mecklenburg County had adopted two sets of resolutions, that the text of the Mecklenburg Declaration was not recreated from memory, and that the events as described in Dr. Alexander's 1819 article were substantially correct.

The former Achaemenid satrapy of Media was divided into two states: The greater ( southern ) part-Media Magna was assigned to Peithon, one of Alexander's bodyguards.

In Magic Words, a 2012 novel by Gerald Kolpan ( Pegasus Books ), Chung is featured as young Billy Robinson, apprentice to the great magician, Alexander Herrmann, who is one of the two main characters in the book ( the other is Alexander's cousin, Julius Meyer, Indian interpreter ). In the book, Billy is shown actually helping Alexander to prepare the special sugar musket balls for the Bullet Catch.

As a result, Kirk uses his new found telekinetic powers in a contest of strength with Parmen, and the two fight for control of Alexander's knife.