It is possible that the pyre was not burnt, but that it was actually intended as a tomb or lasting memorial ; if so, it is likely that it was never completed, as there are references to expensive, uncompleted projects at the time of Alexander's own death.

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.

He claimed to have been the commander of Alexander's fleet but was actually only a helmsman ; Arrian and Nearchus often criticize him for this.

English philosopher Samuel Alexander's debt to Wordsworth and Meredith is a recent interesting example, as also A. N. Whitehead's understanding of the English romantics, chiefly Shelley and Wordsworth.

Adrien Deslonde hastened to Alexander's side.

The hazel eyes met Alexander's.

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

Aristotle had made no secret of his contempt for Alexander's pretense of divinity, and the king had executed Aristotle's grandnephew Callisthenes as a traitor.

A widespread tradition in antiquity suspected Aristotle of playing a role in Alexander's death, but there is little evidence for this.

Upon Alexander's death, anti-Macedonian sentiment in Athens once again flared.

One of Alexander's radical associates manages to extract a confession from Alex after removing him from F. Alexander's home and then locks him in a flatblock near his former home.

Alexander's claims were recognized by the Roman Senate, Ptolemy Philometor of Egypt and others.

Ptolemy Philometor, who was Alexander's father-in-law, went over to his side, and Alexander was defeated in the battle of Antioch ( 145 BC ) in Syria, sometimes known as the battle of the Oenoparus.

When Pelopidas expressed indignation at the tales of Alexander's profligacy and cruelty, Alexander took alarm and fled.

Guards watched throughout the night, except at Alexander's bedchamber, which was at the top of a ladder with a ferocious chained dog guarding the door.

Thebe, Alexander's wife and cousin ( or half-sister, as the daughter of Jason of Pherae ), concealed her three brothers in the house during the day, had the dog removed when Alexander had gone to rest, and, having covered the steps of the ladder with wool, brought up the young men to her husband's chamber.

Though she had taken away Alexander's sword, they feared to set about the deed until she threatened to wake him.

Alexander's shortage of funds immediately made him subservient to the Polish Senate and nobility ( szlachta ), who deprived him of control of the mint ( then one of the most lucrative sources of revenue for the Polish kings ), curtailed his prerogatives, and generally endeavored to reduce him to a subordinate position.

David did not receive the title of king, but of " prince of the Cumbrians ", and his lands remained under Alexander's final authority.

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

His mother's chaplain and hagiographer Thurgot was named Bishop of Saint Andrews ( or Cell Rígmonaid ) in 1107, presumably by Alexander's order.

The case of Thurgot's would-be successor Eadmer shows that Alexander's wishes were not always accepted by the religious community, perhaps because Eadmer had the backing of the Archbishop of Canterbury, Ralph d ' Escures, rather than Thurstan of York.

" The king referred to is Alexander's father, Malcolm III, and Domnall was Alexander's half brother.

As for the Mearns, the only known Mormaer of Mearns, Máel Petair, had murdered Alexander's half-brother Duncan II ( Donnchad mac Maíl Coluim ) in 1094.

" He went on to write " There has never been any doubt in my mind that had General Clark held loyally to General Alexander's instructions, had he not changed the direction of my attack to the north-west on May 26, the strategic objectives of Anzio would have been accomplished in full.

Though Alexander's body had a missing finger and a different appearance from Lex at the time of his death, 52 editor Stephen Wacker has confirmed that the body found in Gotham is indeed Alex, and that Luthor had it altered before the police discovered it.

Mark Clark allegedly exploited Alexander's supposed inability to assert his will over his army commanders.

Arrian mentions a quarrel with Alexander's secretary, Eumenes, but because of a missing page in the text, the greater part of the detail is missing, leaving only the conclusion, that something persuaded Hephaestion, though against his will, to make up the quarrel.

As it is recursive, it is not quite so direct as Alexander's original matrix method ; on the other hand, parts of the work done for one knot will apply to others.

In his will, Alexander named Paul, as the first of three regents to govern until September 1941, when Alexander's son Peter would come of age.

However, Rome's Sulla wanted a pro-Roman ruler on the throne, and sent the young son of Ptolemy X to Egypt, displaying Ptolemy Alexander's will in Rome as justification for this obvious intervention.

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.

Aristotle is also concerned with Alexander's actions and tells Cassandra that she will have to kill him should he continue to push eastward.

Subsequently the letters became more friendly, and on the publication of Alexander's Feast, in late 1697, Dryden wrote to Tonson, " I hope it has done you service, and will do more.

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.

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.

Shortly before Alexander's demise, Antipater's position had recently come under threat, as Alexander's mother Olympias had been writing to her son that Antipater was fomenting unrest and disloyalty in Macedon.

The Persians expected the main assault to come from Alexander's position and moved units from their center to that flank.

The Persians expected the main assault to come from Alexander's position and moved units from their center to that flank.

Yet their belief in a just, all-powerful God forced Jewish interpreters of the Alexander tradition to come to terms with Alexander's undeniable temporal success.

Then, as the full light of modern day come on, the Alexander Romance ceased to be regarded as history, and with it Alexander's Gate passed into the realm of fairyland.

Alexander's family had come to America as refugee French Huguenots in 1685.