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Alexander's father died on 8 July 1249 and he became king at the age of seven, inaugurated at Scone on 13 July 1249.
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" The king referred to is Alexander's father, Malcolm III, and Domnall was Alexander's half brother.
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.
This fact makes it plausible that some of the suspect works that form part of Alexander's corpus should be ascribed to his father.
Alexander's father, Marcus Julius Gessius Marcianus was a Syrian Promagistrate.
His son and successor, Antiochus I Soter, was left with an enormous realm consisting of nearly all of the Asian portions of the Empire, but faced with Antigonus II Gonatas in Macedonia and Ptolemy II Philadelphus in Egypt, he proved unable to pick up where his father had left off in conquering the European portions of Alexander's empire.
Even if the king was not accountable for his management of the kingdom's entries, he may have felt responsible to defend his administration on certain occasions: Arrian tells us that during the mutiny of Alexander's soldiers at Opis in 324 BC, Alexander detailed the possessions of his father at his death to prove he had not abused his charge.
In the Partition of Babylon made after Alexander's death ( 323 BC ) Alexander's generals agreed that Philip III of Macedon, an epileptic son of Alexander's father Philip II of Macedon, and the unborn child of Alexander's wife Roxana should be recognized as joint kings.
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.
King George I was assassinated in Thessaloniki soon afterwards, and Alexander's father ascended the throne as Constantine I.
As the Crown Prince and natural heir was judged as pro-German as his father, the Allies considered instead installing Constantine's brother ( and Alexander's uncle ), Prince George.
He appears never to have been a danger for Alexander's succession to Philip II, notwithstanding their being of about the same age ; all the same, when the satrap of Caria Pixodarus proposed his daughter in marriage to Philip, who offered Arrhidaeus as husband, Alexander thought it prudent to block the operation, with considerable irritation of his father ( 337 BC ).
He started as a great friend to both the young Alexander and the boy's mother, Olympias ; there were even rumours that he was Alexander's father.
His father, King Constantine I, was restored to the Greek throne a month after Alexander's death and returned to Greece from exile.
Alexander was the first cousin of the Queen Ingrid of Denmark, Prince Gustav Adolf, Duke of Vasterbotten ( the father of the current king of Sweden ) and their siblings, because their mother, Princess Margaret of Connaught, was Alexander's aunt and wife to the Crown Prince of Sweden.
Alexander, who has learned that his adoptive father ( and his lover ), Count Ludwig ( Ferdy Mayne ), also a crusader, had killed Alexander's Greek parents, is gleeful that Jakob himself is in love with the Count, whom he had met after the Count and Alexander had split after an argument.
He also worked on an incomplete funerary monument for Alexander's father, Philip II.
Alexander's father ( Maj Thomas Martin Lindsay ) was the brother of 2nd Baron Lindsay of Birker
Although Goehr's personal relationship to his father was not unproblematic, Walter Goehr had a determining influence on his son via his work as a conductor: the composers whose work Walter championed — Arnold Schoenberg, Claudio Monteverdi, Modest Mussorgsky, Olivier Messiaen — feature as a red-thread throughout Alexander's output.
Alexander's empire stretched from his homeland of Macedon itself, along with the Greek city-states that his father had subdued, to Bactria and parts of India in the east.
Alexander's empire stretched from his homeland of Macedon itself, along with the Greek city-states that his father had subdued, to Bactria and parts of India in the east.
Alexander's and died
In the years from 1281 to 1284, Alexander's two sons and one daughter died in quick succession.
Then, in 1286, King Alexander died himself, leaving as heir to the throne of Scotland the three-year-old Margaret, the Maid of Norway, who was born in 1283 to Alexander's daughter Margaret and King Eric II of Norway.
The eldest son, Marc died of cancer at age 15 in 1974, and shortly after Alexander's American wife died.
His brother, Wilhelm von Humboldt, died in Alexander's arms on April 8, 1836.
Finally, the Queen dowager, Olga, widow of George I of Greece and Alexander's grandmother, was allowed to return alone to Athens to tend to the king ; however, Olga was delayed due to rough waters, and by the time she arrived, Alexander had already died of sepsis twelve hours previously on 25 October 1920.
No concise biography has ever been written about him, likely stemming from the fact that he died before Alexander and none of those among Alexander's companions who survived him would have had a need to promote someone other than themselves.
When Tsar Alexander I died on, the royal guards swore allegiance to the presumed heir, Alexander's brother Constantine.
John was the youngest of the five children from Alexander's second marriage ( his first wife had died ).
Luckily for the regent, Memnon died during the siege of Mytilene on the isle of Lesbos and the remaining fleet dispersed in 333 BC, after Alexander's victory at the Battle of Issus.
Her father's health had started to deteriorate after Alexander's death and he died in 1975.
In Babylon, he designed the funerary monument to Alexander's general Hephaestion ( died in 324 BC ), which was described by Diodorus Siculus, Arrian, Strabo, Plutarch and others.
Aspasia and Alexander were the parents of only one child, Princess Alexandra, born five months after Alexander's death at Tatoi ( her father having died of sepsis following a monkey bite ).
The family consequently moved to the outskirts of Glasgow, but tragedy struck when the eldest daughter, Jane, and three of her brothers died between 1828 and 1830, the year that Alexander's mother died.
After his son's death in 1793, M ' Gillivray paid for Alexander's orphaned children, Alleck and Mary ( their mother had also died ), to be brought to Scotland.
Graham Phillips, in his investigation into Alexander's alleged murder, has speculated that it may have been Hagnothemis ' testimony that so convinced Alexander's mother Olympias that her son had not died of natural causes.
David McNair, Jr., Alexander's father ( b. 1736 ), fought with General George Washington in the Trenton and Princeton campaigns in the winter of 1776-77, and died in February, 1777 as a result of wounds received in battle and exposure when Alexander was less than two years old.
Philotas ( in Greek, Φιλώτας, died October 330 BC ) was the eldest son of Parmenion, Alexander's most experienced and talented general.
Alexander died before he was able to create his library, but his friend and successor Ptolemy oversaw the beginnings of Alexander's library — a project that was to grow to become the renowned Library of Alexandria.
Excluding a failed attempt to conquer Bithynia this we do not hear of Calas: it would seem, however, that he died before the treason and flight of his father in 325, as we know from Arrian that Demarchus succeeded him in the satrapy of the Hellespontine Phrygia during Alexander's life-time.
Several late manuscripts attribute the work to Alexander's court historian Callisthenes, but the historical figure died before Alexander and could not have written a full account of his life.
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The work is a discussion of ethical issues based on Aristotle, and contains responses to questions and problems deriving from Alexander's school.
By the 6th century Alexander's commentaries on Aristotle were considered so useful that he was referred to as " the commentator " ().
Several of Alexander's works were published in the Aldine edition of Aristotle, Venice, 1495 – 1498 ; his De Fato and De Anima were printed along with the works of Themistius at Venice ( 1534 ); the former work, which has been translated into Latin by Grotius and also by Schulthess, was edited by J. C. Orelli, Zürich, 1824 ; and his commentaries on the Metaphysica by H. Bonitz, Berlin, 1847.
In his writing he makes mention of a moment when Alexander's secondary naval commander, Onesicritus, was reading the Amazon passage of his Alexander history to King Lysimachus of Thrace who was on the original expedition: the king smiled at him and said " And where was I, then?
He rated Alexander's work highly enough to base the character of the doctor who saves the protagonist in ' Eyeless in Gaza ' ( an experimental form of autobiographical work ) on F. M.
The Nature of Order: An Essay on the Art of Building and the Nature of the Universe ( 2003-4 ), which includes The Phenomenon of Life, The Process of Creating Life, A Vision of a Living World and The Luminous Ground, is Alexander's latest, and most comprehensive and elaborate work.
Michael Mehaffy wrote an introductory essay on Christopher Alexander's built work in the online publication " Katarxis 3 ", which includes a gallery of Alexander's major built projects to date ( September 2004 ).
Alexander's Notes on the Synthesis of Form was required reading for researchers in computer science throughout the 1960s.
* Essay on Christopher Alexander's Pattern Language
# An ancient Greek currency unit found in many Greek city states from Classical times on, as well as in many of Alexander's successor states and South-West Asian kingdoms during the Hellenistic era.
Omar Bradley, an American general on the Tunisian Campaign, credited Alexander's patience and experience with helping an inexperienced United States " field command mature and eventually come of age.
It was not until the fourth attempt that the Winter Line was breached by the Allies, and Alexander's forces moved on to capture Rome in June 1944, thereby achieving one of the strategic goals of the Italian campaign.
In response, the real Luthor took on the identity of Mockingbird and formed the third incarnation of the Secret Six in order to counter Alexander's organization.
Alexander's influence — an emphasis on matter over style, on careful wording, with the occasional Homeric quotation — has been detected in Marcus ' Meditations.
Shortly after Alexander's decision, he witnesses Worf being killed on the floor of the High Council.
When at Ecbatana, Darius learned of Alexander's approaching army, he decided to retreat to Bactria where he could better use his cavalry and mercenary forces on the more even ground of the plains of Asia.
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.
In one of the most daunting logistical efforts of the Confederacy, Longstreet, with the divisions of Lafayette McLaws and John Hood, a brigade from George Pickett's division, and Porter Alexander's 26-gun artillery battalion, traveled over 16 railroads on a route through the Carolinas to reach Bragg in northern Georgia.
A snippet of the chorus of " Alexander's Ragtime Band " can be heard toward the end of Taco's 1982 cover of " Puttin ' on the Ritz ", a number 4 hit in the United States.
Alexander's theory continued to be challenged as the years went on.
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