As of the census of 2000, there were 8, 820 people, however the most recent count suggests a population upwards of 10, 000, which is displayed on Alexandria's city limits signs.

Cyril gained an opportunity to restore Alexandria's pre-eminence over both Antioch and Constantinople when an Antiochine priest who was in Constantinople at Nestorius ' behest began to preach against calling Mary the " Mother of God ".

There is a growing consensus among historians that the Library of Alexandria likely suffered from several destructive events, but that the destruction of Alexandria's pagan temples in the late 4th century was probably the most severe and final one.

Alexandria's post office was established in 1880, and the city later incorporated in 1885.

When it was created, it was Alexandria's third public high school.

Lloyd attended Parker-Gray High School, which was Alexandria's all-black high school at the time.

Hero of Alexandria's Pneumatica describes devices that might be used to automatically open temple doors when a fire was lit on a sacrificial altar.

The suppressed Greek Gospel of the Egyptians, ( which is quite distinct from the later, wholly Gnostic Coptic Gospel of the Egyptians ), perhaps written in the second quarter of the 2nd century, was already cited in Clement of Alexandria's miscellany, the Stromata, where quotations give us many of the brief excerpts that are all that remain ; it was also mentioned by Hippolytus, who alludes to " these various changes of the soul, set forth in the Gospel entitled according to the Egyptians " and connects the Gospel of the Egyptians with the Gnostic Naassene sect.

In the Middle Ages Pygmalion was held up as an example of the excesses of idolatry, probably spurred by Clement of Alexandria's suggestion that Pygmalion had carved an image of Aphrodite herself.

Each column was high and in diameter, and arrived at Alexandria's Union Station by train from Redstone, New Hampshire.

It may be derived from an Iranian ethnonym * ha-mazan -, " warriors ", a word attested as a denominal verb ( formed with the Indo-Iranian root kar-" make " also in kar-ma ) in Hesychius of Alexandria's gloss (" hamazakaran: ' to make war ' ( Persian )").

Alexandria's centre of learning also produced the Greek translation of the Hebrew Bible, the Septuagint.

Origen of Alexandria's other teachings about the possibility of glorified man falling again also played a role in that condemnation.

Bestowing the title on Rome's Pontiff did not strip it from Alexandria's, and the Roman Catholic Church recognizes this ecclesiastical fact.

Bestowing the title on Rome's Pontiff did not strip it from Alexandria's, and the Roman Catholic Church recognizes this ecclesiastical fact.

* Having driven out the Jews, Alexandria's new patriarch, Cyril, has instigated the mob after taking offense at Hypatia's scientific rationalism.

A statue of Nubar Pasha at the entrance of Alexandria's opera house.

Image: Jones Point lens. jpg | Fifth-order Fresnel lens once used at the lighthouse, on display at The Lyceum, Alexandria's history museum

* Alexandria's residents had lost representation and the right to vote at any level of government.

Alexandria's objections to Constantinople's promotion, which led to a constant struggle between the two sees in the first half of the 5th century, were supported, at least until the Fourth Council of Constantinople of 869 – 870, by Rome, which proposed the theory that the most important sees were the three Petrine ones, with Rome in first place.

About two years after Cyril of Alexandria's death in 444, an aged monk from Constantinople named Eutyches began teaching a subtle variation on the traditional Christology in an attempt ( as he described in a letter to Pope Leo I in 448 ) to stop a new outbreak of Nestorianism.

French archeologists led by Jean-Yves Empereur discovered remains of the lighthouse in late 1994 on the floor of Alexandria's Eastern Harbour.

* The Lighthouse of Alexandria's final remains disappear when Qaitbay, Sultan of Egypt, builds the Citadel of Qaitbay on its site.

* A 110 metre tall lighthouse on the island of Pharos in Alexandria's harbour is completed and serves as a landmark for ships in the eastern Mediterranean.

In 1814 Venturi wrote Commentarj sopra la storia e le teorie dell ' ottica ( Commentaries about the history and theory of optics ), which included Hero of Alexandria's treatise on the dioptra and from 1818 to 1821 he compiled, edited and published many of Galileo's manuscripts and letters in Memorie e lettere inedite finora o disperse di Galileo Galilei, ordinate e illustrate con annotazioni.

He wrote commentaries on Euclid and Archimedes, and improved Ishaq ibn Hunain's translation of Menelaus of Alexandria's Spherics.

However, even though the Arabs admired Alexandria's glamor and wealth, they chose to establish a new capital on the east bank of the Nile.

The following excerpt is taken from Clement of Alexandria's Exhortation to the Greeks

Apart from Hero of Alexandria's steam aeolipile, Hellenistic technicians were the first to invent watermills and windwheels, making them global pioneers in three of the four known means of non-human propulsion prior to the Industrial Revolution ( the fourth being sails ).

For example, Hesychius of Alexandria's Lexicon ( 5th century AD ) defines Agiadae as a " place in Lacedaemonia " named after Agis.

Only about 20, 000 people ( rather than the anticipated 150, 000 ) lined Alexandria's streets to view the parade.

Alexandria Echo Press is Alexandria's major twice-weekly newspaper.

Residents of Alexandria and the surrounding areas attend Northridge Local School District, which includes: Northridge Primary ( Located within Alexandria's limits ), Northridge Intermediary, Northridge Middle School, and Northridge High School ( Johnstown ).

With the decline of Alexandria following the Ottoman conquest of Egypt in 1517, Rashid boomed, only to wane in importance after Alexandria's revival.

* Baubo in Clement of Alexandria's Exhortation to the Greeks The story of Babuo as related by Clement of Alexandria

He chaired the board of the Alexandria Community Trust, Alexandria's community foundation, and the board of Jobs for Virginia Graduates, the state's largest high school dropout prevention program.

Dioscorus then pressed his advantage by having Cyril of Alexandria's Twelve Anathemas posthumously declared orthodox with the intent of condemning any confession other than one nature in Christ.

Beyond his being considered a member of Alexandria's Greek society, few details of Ptolemy's life are known for certain.

* May 9 – Alexandria's patriarch Bishop Alexander dies and is succeeded by his deacon Athanasius.

According to Clement of Alexandria's Exhortation to the Greeks.

The translation of St. Cyril of Alexandria's synodical letter against Nestorius, and some other works long attributed to Dionysius are now acknowledged to be earlier and are assigned to Marius Mercator.

* Pamphilus of Alexandria's comprehensive lexicon in 95 books of foreign or obscure words.

Growing up, he attended Alexandria's elite Victoria College.

The area's name lends itself to Alexandria's local football club, Vale of Leven F. C., the secondary school, Vale of Leven Academy, and the Vale of Leven District General Hospital, as well as other local organisations.

Epiphanius confused Philo of Alexandria's description of the Therapeutae with " Jessaens ," ( Iessaioi ), according, incorrectly, to Epiphanius a Christian group.