Alexander the Great, who used runners as message carriers, did not have to worry about having every officer in his command hear what he said and having hundreds of them comment at once.

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Aristotle (, Aristotélēs ) ( 384 BC – 322 BC ) was a Greek philosopher and polymath, a student of Plato and teacher of Alexander the Great.

Aristotle's influence over Alexander the Great is seen in the latter's bringing with him on his expedition a host of zoologists, botanists, and researchers.

Category: Philosophers and tutors of Alexander the Great

The conventions of this representation, head tilted, lips slightly parted, large-eyed, curling hair cut in locks grazing the neck, were developed in the 3rd century BCE to depict Alexander the Great.

Alexander the Great in Greek and Roman Art.

* Ada of Caria, satrap deposed by her brother Idrieus and restored by Alexander the Great

In the 4th century BC Alexander the Great conquered the peninsula, defeating the Persians.

In the latter part of the 4th century BC, the Macedonian Greek king Alexander the Great conquered the peninsula.

Philippus claimed descent from Alexander the Great, and was elected consul in 56 BC.

Alexander the Great threw a spear to Abydos while crossing the strait and claimed Asia as his own.

As the son of Neoptolemus I and brother of Olympias, Alexander I was an uncle of Alexander the Great.

In a famous passage that is often considered the first specimen of alternative history, Livy speculates on what would have been the outcome of a military showdown between Alexander the Great and the Roman Republic.

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Great solicitude was devoted to the education of Nicolas as tsarevich, whereas Alexander received only the training of an ordinary Grand Duke of that period.

Alexander the warrior and knight: the reverse side of Alexander II's Great Seal, enhanced as a 19th century steel engraving.

* Alexander the Great, ancient Greek king and general

The most famous is Alexander the Great, who created one of the largest empires in ancient history.

The name's popularity was spread throughout the Greek world by the military conquests of King Alexander III, commonly known as " Alexander the Great ".

* Alexander the Great ( Alexander III of Macedon ), King of Macedon, 356 – 323 BC

In 1800 German scientist Alexander von Humboldt and French botanist Aimé Bonpland explored the river.

The Northwest Passage represented a new route to the established trading nations of Asia, as in 1493 to defuse trade disputes, Pope Alexander VI split the discovered world in two between Spain and Portugal ; thus France, the Netherlands, and England were left without a sea route to Asia, either via Africa or South America, unless their ships defied the ban and explored such waters regardless ( they did, and the ban became unenforceable ).

Owner Peter Pocklington had explored moving the Oilers to Minnesota during the 1990s, and in 1998 Pocklington almost made a deal to sell the team to Leslie Alexander, the owner of the Houston Rockets of the NBA who would have moved the team to Houston, Texas.

In 1814 Alexander Ross, a fur trader with the North West Company, seeking a viable route across the mountains, explored and crossed the northern Cascades between Fort Okanogan and Puget Sound.

Alexander von Humboldt explored the basin in 1800, reporting on the pink river dolphins, and publishing extensively on the flora and fauna.

Fur trappers were in the area as early as 1818, and Alexander Ross explored Squaw Creek in 1824.

In 1829, Dr Alexander Collie and Lieutenant Preston explored the area of Bunbury on land.

Starting from the expedition led by Alexander von Keyserling in 1843, the Komi territory was most extensively explored in the 19th and the beginning of the 20th centuries by the Russians, who found ample reservoirs of various minerals, as well as timber, to exploit.

Other composers styled " late Romantic ", such as Franz Schreker ( Der ferne Klang, 1912 ; Der Schatzgräber, 1920 ), Alexander von Zemlinsky ( Eine florentinische Tragödie, 1917 ; Der Zwerg, 1922 ) and Erich Korngold ( Die tote Stadt, 1920 ) explored similar territory to Strauss's Salome and Elektra.

" According to Roger Bacon, Alexander the Great explored the Mediterranean on the authority of Ethicus the astronomer.

In 1905 the Saurian Expedition led by John C. Merriam and financed by Annie Alexander explored the Triassic limestones of the range, discovering 25 specimens of ichthyosaur.

The river was originally known as the " McLeod River ", after the Hudson's Bay Company hunter and trapper Alexander Roderick McLeod who explored it during the winter of 1829-1830.

Through meeting Alexander Bickerton he became a supporter of Bickerton's Partial impact theory and enthusiastically explored and polished the theory.

This was first reported in the 17th century and explored in 1800 by naturalist Alexander von Humboldt, who commented on the recent extinction of the Aturès Indians for whom the Atures Rapids had been named.

This area of New York was first explored in the 1790s as part of the Macomb's Purchase, in which Alexander Macomb, a wealthy Revolutionary-Era American merchant purchased 3. 6 million acres ( 15, 000 km² ) from New York State at 12 cents an acre.

Alexander Collie explored to the north of the Sound in 1831.

Philosophers of science and economists have explored these issues intensively since the work of Alexander Rosenberg and Daniel Hausman dating to 3 decades ago.

With the assistance of Alexander Kennedy Isbister, he established Fort McPherson, Northwest Territories on the Peel River not far from the Mackenzie, and explored the Peel into what is now the Yukon Territory.

These hardy tribes had offered stubborn resistance to Alexander ( 326 c BC ) during latter's campaign of the Kabul, Kunar and Swat valleys and had even extracted the praise of the Alexander's historians.

The second immediate reason was the presence in Kabul in 1837 of a Russian agent, Captain P. Vitkevich, who was ostensibly there, as was the British agent Alexander Burnes, for commercial discussions.

* From Phrada, Alexander the Great presses on up the valley of the Helmand River, through Arachosia, and over the mountains past the site of modern Kabul into the country of the Paropamisade, where he founds Alexandria by the Caucasus.

Antiochus next, following in the steps of Alexander, crossed into the Kabul valley, reaching the realm of Indian king Sophagasenus and returned west by way of Seistan and Kerman ( 206 / 5 ).

* According to an ancient Sri Lankan source, the Mahavamsa, Greek monks seem to have been active proselytizers of Buddhism during the time of Menander: the Yona ( Greek ) Mahadhammarakkhita () is said to have come from " Alasandra " ( thought to be Alexandria of the Caucasus, the city founded by Alexander the Great, near today ’ s Kabul ) with 30, 000 monks for the foundation ceremony of the Maha Thupa (" Great stupa ") at Anuradhapura in Sri Lanka, during the 2nd century BC:

The army proved true to the governor-general's earlier proclamation rather than to his later fears ; the hostages were rescued, the scene of Sir Alexander Burnes's murder in the heart of Kabul was burned down.

As a political agent at Kabul he came into conflict with the military authorities and subsequently with his subordinate Sir Alexander Burnes.

Rejecting overtures from Russia, he endeavoured to form an alliance with Great Britain, and welcomed Alexander Burnes to Kabul in 1837.

In November 1841, a senior British officer, Sir Alexander ' Sekundar ' Burnes, and his aides were killed by a mob in Kabul.

During the time of Menander I, the Yona ( Ionian ) Mahadhammarakkhita () is said to have come from “ Alasandra ” ( thought to be Alexandria-of-the-Caucasus, the city founded by Alexander the Great, near today ’ s Kabul ) with 30, 000 monks for the foundation ceremony of the Maha Thupa (" Great stupa ") at Anuradhapura in Sri Lanka, during the 2nd century BCE.

* Night of the Long Knives, the assassination of Alexander Burnes in November 1841 in Kabul, Afghanistan

The name Night of the Long Knives was later used for a violent political purge in Nazi Germany, as well as British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan's dismissal of seven members of his cabinet and also the assassination of Alexander Burnes in November 1841 in Kabul, Afghanistan.

In Arrian's " History of Expedition of Alexander the Great & conquest of Persia " Translated by Mr. Rooke, The River Kabul is referred to as Cophen.

Akbar Khan led a revolt in Kabul against the British Indian mission of William McNaughten, Alexander Burnes and their garrison of 4, 500 men.

Ten days previously he had received news of the murder of Sir Alexander Burnes, along with orders to return with all speed to Kabul.

The film begins after Alexander the Great ( Sikander in Hindi / Urdu ) conquers Persia and the Kabul valley and approaches the Indian border at Jhelum.