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Alexander and leaves
Nonetheless, Alexander ’ s family heraldic emblems of the mons or mountains with stars and oak leaves, adorn Borromini ’ s church of Sant ' Ivo alla Sapienza and many other works of his reign
* May 29 – Battle of Monte Porzio: The army of the Commune of Rome is defeated by the forces of the Holy Roman Emperor and the local princes ; Pope Alexander III leaves Rome.
* Antiochus III leaves for a campaign in Asia, where he will reach as far as India and mostly manage to recover the areas conquered earlier by Alexander the Great.
* Alexander the Great leaves India and nominates his officer Peithon, son of Agenor, as the satrap of the region around the Indus.
After Otto leaves, Adelaide and Victor, a medical doctor and a close family friend, arrive at the scene and offer to take Alexander and Little Man home on Victor's car.
Its reception was generally positive, with Alexander J. Morin writing that Adagio for Strings is " full of pathos and cathartic passion " and that it " rarely leaves a dry eye.
North prepares to move in with a set of Amish parents ( Alexander Godunov and Kelly McGillis ), but is quickly discouraged by the lack of electricity ( along with the large size of his new family ) and leaves in a hurry.
* Alexander Smith, Patrick Proctor Alexander, Last leaves.
A banker, Mr. Alexander Holder of Streatham makes a loan of £ 50, 000 to a socially prominent client, who leaves the Beryl Coronet — one of the most valuable public possessions in existence — as collateral.
* 1973-Tensions between Sergey Kavagoe and Alexander Kutikov ; the latter leaves the band for a hard rock outfit Visokosnoe Leto ( Leap Year Summer )
* 1974-Sergey Kavagoe leaves, Alexander Kutikov returns.
In the morning of February 17, 1905, Grand Duke Sergei was in a particularly good mood because he had received from the Tsar a miniature portrait of Alexander III surrounded by gold laurel leaves, as a personal mark of favor from nephew to uncle.
The Websters buy Number 13 from Hilda Ogden ( Jean Alexander ) after she leaves to work as a doctor's housekeeper.
Hilda Ogden ( Jean Alexander ) leaves the Street, selling Number 13 to the couple.
Terebinth is referred to by Robin Lane Fox in Alexander the Great: " When a Persian king took the throne, he attended Pasargadae, site of King Cyrus's tomb, and dressed in a rough leather uniform to eat a ritual meal of figs, sour milk and leaves of terebinth.

Alexander and Caria
* Ada of Caria, satrap deposed by her brother Idrieus and restored by Alexander the Great
Alexander was a native of Aphrodisias in Caria and came to Athens towards the end of the 2nd century.
* At Halicarnassus, Alexander successfully undertakes the first of many sieges, eventually forcing his opponents, the mercenary captain Memnon of Rhodes and the Persian satrap of Caria, Orontobates, to withdraw by sea.
After a brief membership in the Athenian Empire, it seceded and became independent ( its treaty with Athens had omitted the usual non-secession clause ), was under the Persians again, revolted again, was conquered by Maussollus of Caria, returned to the Persians, and went under Macedonian hegemony at the defeat of the Persians by Alexander the Great.
Caria was conquered by Alexander III of Macedon in 334 BC with the help of the former queen of the land Ada of Caria who had been dethroned by the Persian Empire and actively helped Alexander in his conquest of Caria on condition of being reinstated as queen.
After their capture of Caria, she declared Alexander as her heir.
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 ).
Eventually the coast was conquered by Persians who were in turn removed by Alexander the Great, bringing an end to the satrapy of Caria.
Alexander then committed the government of Caria to Ada ; and she, in turn, formally adopted Alexander as her son, ensuring that the rule of Caria passed unconditionally to him upon her eventual death.
He was appointed, together with Coenus and Ptolemy the son of Seleucus, to command the newly-married troops which were sent home from Caria to spend the winter in Macedon, and rejoined Alexander at Gordium in the following summer ( 333 BC ).
2nd half of 4th century BCE ), a Greek from Caria, was Alexander the Great's favorite seer.
Among the authors Artemidorus cites are Antiphon ( possibly the same as Antiphon the Sophist ), Aristander of Telmessus, Demetrius of Phalerum, Alexander of Myndus in Caria, and Artemon of Miletus.
During the Hellenistic Age, Caria was invaded by Alexander the Great and the castle was besieged.
Cyprus was an experienced seafaring nation and Alexander used the Cypriot fleet during his campaign into India ; because the country had many navigable rivers, he included a significant number of shipbuilders and rowers from Cyprus, Egypt, Phoenicia and Caria in his military expedition.
When Alexander the Great entered Caria in 334 BC, Ada, who was in possession of the fortress of Alinda, surrendered the fortress to him.

Alexander and hands
As for Cousin Alexander Carraway, the only thing Theresa could remember at the moment about him ( except his paper knife ) was that he had had exceptionally long hands and feet and one night about one o'clock in the morning the whole Stubblefield family had been aroused to go next door at Cousin Emma's call -- first Papa, then Mother, then Theresa and George.
In 1893, King Alexander, aged sixteen, in a first coup d ' état proclaimed himself of full age, dismissed the regents and their government, and took the royal authority into his own hands.
( Churchill sent a telegram to Alexander on 23 September 1942 which began, " We are in your hands and of course a victorious battle makes amends for much delay.
Excepting a few ineffective attempts to revive scythed chariots, and continuing far eastern use, the use of chariots in battle was obsolete in civilized nations by the time of the Persian defeat at the hands of Alexander the Great, but chariots remained in use for ceremonial purposes such as carrying the victorious general in a Roman triumph, or for racing.
Alexander Beatson, who published a volume on the Fourth Mysore War entitled View of the Origin and Conduct of the War with Tippoo Sultaun, described Tipu Sultan as follows: " His stature was about five feet eight inches ; he had a short neck, square shoulders, and was rather corpulent: his limbs were small, particularly his feet and hands ; he had large full eyes, small arched eyebrows, and an aquiline nose ; his complexion was fair, and the general expression of his countenance, not void of dignity ".
* September 17 – Ghent falls into the hands of Alexander Farnese, governor of the Spanish Netherlands.
Darius did attempt to restore his once great army after his defeat at the hands of Alexander, but he failed to raise a force comparable to that which had fought at Gaugamela, partly because the defeat had undermined his authority, and also because Alexander ’ s liberal policy, for instance in Babylonia and in Persis, offered an acceptable alternative to Persian domination.
The Crisis began with the assassination of Emperor Alexander Severus at the hands of his own troops, initiating a fifty-year period in which 20 – 25 claimants to the title of Emperor, mostly prominent Roman army generals, assumed imperial power over all or part of the Empire.
The city remained in Persian hands until 331 BCE, when the soldiers of the Macedonian conqueror Alexander the Great entered the city.
( 2 ) At this point one of the women present, Thais by name and Attic by origin, said that for Alexander it would be the finest of all his feats in Asia if he joined them in a triumphal procession, set fire to the palaces, and permitted women's hands in a minute to extinguish the famed accomplishments of the Persians.
" Tsar Alexander perhaps best summed up the harsh times for the Allies by stating, " We are babies in the hands of a giant.
According to Yuri Felshtinsky and Vladimir Pribylovsky, top KGB officers Alexander Korzhakov and Alexander Komelkov may have plotted Listyev's murder at the hands of Solntsevskaya bratva.
Arrian also mentions Alexander ordering the shrine of Asclepios in Ecbatana to be razed to the ground, and that he cut his hair short in mourning, this last a poignant reminder of Achilles ' last gift to Patroclus on his funeral pyre: "... he laid the lock of hair in the hands of his beloved companion, and the whole company was moved to tears.
The Persians captured Issus without opposition, and cut off the hands of all the sick and wounded that Alexander had left behind.
For the letters, poems, etc., that he allowed to pass out of his hands, Alexander Bruce took no receipt and did not keep any list of the titles.
" You tell me that I hold the happiness of a certain person in my hands ," she wrote to Alexander.
The sculpture shows Waltbert on his horse, in his hands the relic of St. Alexander.
As these satraps gave up, Alexander appointed new ones to replace them, and claimed to distrust the accumulation of absolute power into anyone ’ s hands.
Before Simeon could attack, Alexander died on 6 June 913, leaving the empire in the hands of a regency council headed by Patriarch Nicholas Mystikos.
Nearby the town, the Ottomans suffered a severe defeat at the hands of the allied forces of the Habsburg Monarchy under Prince Frederick Josias of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld and Imperial Russia under Alexander Suvorov in 1789 ( see Battle of Focşani ).
In 1868 Sir Alexander Cockburn, Campbell's successor as Lord Chief Justice, held in an appeal that the test of obscenity was "... whether the tendency of the matter charged as obscenity is to deprave and corrupt those whose minds are open to such immoral influences and into whose hands a publication of this sort may fall.
The position was given to the then-President of Synod Vitaly Vvedensky, however since mid-1920s all power in the Renovationist Church had consolidated in the hands of its actual leader, Metropolitan Alexander Vvedensky.

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