Alexander's marriage with Henry's illegitimate daughter Sybilla de Normandy may have occurred as early as 1107, or as at late as 1114.

The former dominated the early years of Alexander's reign.

The armies of the early Hellenistic period were equipped and fought mainly in the same style as Alexander's.

During his early life he served under Philip II, and he was a major figure in the Wars of the Diadochi after Alexander's death, declaring himself king in 306 BC and establishing the Antigonid dynasty.

Sharing Alexander's upbringing, Hephaestion would have learned to fight and to ride well from an early age.

His name is not mentioned in lists of high-ranking officers during the early battles of Alexander's Danube campaign ( 335 BC ), or the invasion of Persia, and nor are the names of Alexander's other close friends and contemporaries, suggesting that their promotions, when they achieved them, were earned by merit.

At first, many officers were encouraged by Tsar Alexander's early liberal reformation of Russian society and politics.

Alexander's first exposure to journalism was in his early twenties, when he wrote several moral essays under the pseudonym " Clarinda.

In these early months, Darius still refused to take Alexander seriously or mount a serious challenge to Alexander's movements.

There is little information available on Alexander's early life as a layman prior to becoming a monk at the monastery of Enaton west of Alexandria.

In early gatherings, Purcell's setting of the Te Deum and Jubilate was a regular part of the repertoire until 1784, and Handel dominated 18th-century programmes with oratorios such as Alexander's Feast, Samson, Judas Maccabaeus and Messiah.

The frequent visits to the palace of the chief of the Pharisaic party, Simeon ben Shetach, who was said to be the queen's brother must have occurred in the early years of Alexander's reign, before Alexander had openly broken with the Pharisees.

The findings of the philologists imply that the source of the Qur ' an's story of Dhul-Qarnayn is the Alexander romance, a thoroughly embellished compilation of Alexander's exploits from Hellenistic and early Christian sources, which underwent numerous expansions and revisions for two-thousand years, throughout Antiquity and the Middle Ages.

The legendary Alexander material originated as early as the time of the Ptolemaic dynasty ( 305 BC to 30 BC ) and its unknown authors are sometimes referred to as the Pseudo-Callisthenes ( not to be confused with Callisthenes of Olynthus, who was Alexander's official historian ).

An early expedition to Derbent was ordered by the Caliph Umar ( 586 – 644 AD ) himself, during the Arab conquest of Armenia where they heard about Alexander's Wall in Derbent from the conquered Christian Armenians.

Alexander's position for the majority of his career was at half-back, however early in his career – particularly in representative sides – he was moved to fullback.

Collins & Harlan also made best-selling records of tunes old and new that remain well cherished and iconic even in the twenty-first century, such as “ Waiting for the Robert E. Lee ,” “ Alexander's Ragtime Band ,” “ Lily of the Valley ” and “ The Old Grey Mare .” Collins survived into the early years of the Jazz Age, and he and Harlan recorded the earliest record known to mention jazz, “ That Funny Jas Band from Dixieland ” ( Victor 18235, recorded January 12, 1917.

Alexander's brother Compars Herrmann ( January 23, 1816-June 8, 1887 ) left medical school at an early age to pursue a career as a magician and served as a role model and inspiration for Alexander.

The group's inaugural arrangement was the barbershop quartet standard " Coney Island Baby ", and other early arrangements included Irving Berlin's Alexander's Ragtime Band and a Princeton University anthem known as " The Orange Moon.

Portraying a member of Tyrone Power's orchestra in Alexander's Ragtime Band, in the early scenes of the film Fowley's character quarrels with his bandmates, but this is not developed in the film's later scenes.

Alexander's early schooling was directed at making him a lawyer.

Near the end of Alexander's life, Alexander began to suspect plots against himself, and threatened Aristotle in letters.

In 1889 Alexander's father, King Milan, unexpectedly abdicated and withdrew to private life, proclaiming Alexander king of Serbia under a regency until he should attain his majority at eighteen years of age.

While still a deacon under Alexander's care, he seems to have been brought for a while into close relations with some of the solitaries of the Egyptian desert, and in particular with the Anthony the Great, whose life he is said to have written.

* At Phrada, in Drangiana, Philotas, Parmenion's son and commander of the elite Macedonian companion cavalry, is implicated in an alleged plot against Alexander's life.

After Alexander's death, when the other senior Macedonian officers unloaded their " Susa wives " en masse, Seleucus was one of the very few who kept his, and Apama remained his consort and later Queen for the rest of her life.

Back in Hollywood, Merman was featured in Happy Landing, a minor comedy with Cesar Romero, Don Ameche, and Sonja Henie ; the box office hit Alexander's Ragtime Band, a pastiche of Irving Berlin songs interpolated into a plot that vaguely paralleled the composer's life ; and Straight, Place or Show, a critical and commercial flop starring the Ritz Brothers.

It seems that he wanted to make Alexander's life a legend — which it is today — through his book.

He has little to say about Alexander's personal life, his role in Greek politics or the reasons why the campaign against Persia was launched in the first place.

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.

But he does not discuss Alexander's wider political views or other aspects of his life that the modern reader would like to know more about.

Wilde, for instance, emphasized attention to aesthetic minutiae rather than realism ; he resisted Alexander's suggested broad stage movements, quipping that " Details are of no importance in life, but in art details are vital ".

It endured through adolescence, through Alexander's becoming king, through the hardships of campaigning and the flatteries of court life, and their marriages.

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.

Of his short married life, nothing is known, except that at the time of Alexander's own death, eight months after Hephaestion's, Drypetis was still mourning the husband to whom she had been married for only four months.

It is primarily a military history ; it has little to say about Alexander's personal life, his role in Greek politics or the reasons why the campaign against Persia was launched in the first place.

The story has a twist 20 years later: Lucas, replacing his brother, had a daughter with his girlfriend Marisa called Natalia, who is a proud product of both her parents and her grandfather for her academic excellence, but she feels she lacks enjoy life more because while others take to the streets to have fun, she stays in her room alone, studying and amid all her troubles, was hired by her grandfather's chauffeur, ex-fighter, for she called Alexander's will have a great hatred to change gradually from an intense love until we have a relationship, but Marisa does not allow his daughter to marry someone of lower class and romance will oppose this, making attempts to cover their pain Natalia with alcoholism and drug abuse, taking a blow to his life.

His book therefore concentrates heavily on the military aspects of Alexander's life.

After a year as a tutor in Liverpool, Barton spent the rest of his life at Woodbridge, Suffolk, for the most part as a clerk in Messrs Alexander's Bank.

Plotting with Persia, Pythagorean cult members make another attempt on Alexander's life but he is able to fight them off.

* John Slater's Introduction to the Collected Works of Samuel Alexander has some biographical details on Alexander's life.

The consensus states: " Even at nearly three hours long, this ponderous, talky and emotionally distant biopic fails to illuminate Alexander's life.