Herodotus also describes that just like his predecessor, Amasis II relied on Greek mercenaries and council men.

Although Amasis thus appears first as champion of the disparaged native, he had the good sense to cultivate the friendship of the Greek world, and brought Egypt into closer touch with it than ever before.

Amasis reacted by cultivating closer ties with the Greek states to counter the future Persian invasion into Egypt but was fortunate to have died in 526 B. C. E.

* Amasis Painter, Greek painter

* Amasis Painter, ancient Greek vase painter of the black figure style

The Liddell-Scott Greek-English Lexicon defines ' philhellen ' as " fond of the Hellenes, mostly of foreign princes, as Amasis ; of Parthian kings [...]; also of Hellenic tyrants, as Jason of Pherae and generally of Hellenic ( Greek ) patriots.

According to Strabo the Greek name Ἀμάσεια comes from Amasis, the queen of the Amazons, who were said to have lived here.

On July 25, 2009, Quackenbush appeared on Dragon Gate USA's first pay-per-view Enter the Dragon in an eight man tag team Chikara showcase match, where Quackenbush, Jigsaw, Fire Ant and Soldier Ant defeated Gran Akuma, Icarus, Amasis and Hallowicked.

The story takes place in Ancient Egypt where Princess Amasidia, daughter to King Amasis, is walking along the Pelusium Way in the company of Old Mambres, who the king appointed to be in charge of her household.

), Amasis was able to defeat an invasion of Egypt by the Babylonians under Nebuchadrezzar II ; henceforth, the Babylonians experienced sufficient difficulties controlling their empire that they were forced to abandon future attacks against Amasis.

Although fighting valiantly they suffered defeat and Amasis II became Pharaoh ( reigned 570-526 BC ).

As they brought the Princess to Amasis, he re-informed her how by uttering his name you are condemned to death.

One such figure was Phanes of Halicarnassus, who would later on leave Amasis, for reasons Herodotus does not clearly know but suspects were personal between the two figures.

The groups of figures which the Amasis Painter shows were carefully drawn and symmetrically composed.

In the northern section were found several temple ruins ( E: Temple of Hera, F: Temple of Apollo & G: Temple of Dioscuri ) including what may be Herodotus ' Hellenion discovered by Hogarth in 1899 ( directly east of F .) " None of the votive pottery found here need have arrived earlier than the reign of Amasis, so it may well be that the Hellenion was founded as the result of his reorganization of the status of Naucratis, while the independent sanctuaries ... are of the earlier years of the town.

The remains of a chapel of Osiris, erected by Amasis II of the twenty-sixth, also were found near the northern temple.

In early 2009 Quackenbush and Jigsaw gained three points, but were unable to defeat the Campeones de Parejas The Osirian Portal ( Amasis and Ophidian ) on April 25.

Amasis seems to have complied by forcing an Egyptian physician into mandatory labor causing him to leave his family behind in Egypt and move to Persia in forced exile.

Amasis would die before Cambyses reached him, but his heir and son Psamtik III would be defeated by the Persians.

Cambyses wants to marry a daughter of Amasis, who sends him a daughter of Apries instead of his own daughter, and by her Cambyses is induced to begin the war.

According to Herodotus, Amasis thought Polycrates was too successful, and advised him to throw away whatever he valued most in order to escape a reversal of fortune.

Croesus, now feeling secure, formed an alliance with Sparta in addition to those he had with Amasis II of Egypt and Nabonidus of Babylonia, and launched his campaign against the Persian Empire in 547 BC.

In 570 BC the Pharaoh Apries ( Wahibre, reigned 589-570 BC ) led the descendants of this mercenary army made up of 30, 000 Carians and Ionians against a former general turned rebel by the name of Amasis.

An inscription confirms the struggle between the native Egyptian and the foreign soldiery, and proves that Apries was killed and honourably buried in the third year of Amasis ( c. 567 B. C. E .).

In an attempt to exact revenge for his forced exile, the physician would grow very close with Cambyses and would suggest that Cambyses should ask Amasis for a daughter in marriage in order to solidify his bonds with the Egyptians.

At this time of crisis, the Egyptians turned in support towards a victorious general, Amasis II who had led Egyptian forces in a highly successful invasion of Nubia in 592 BC under pharaoh Psamtik II, Apries ' father.

Amasis II () or Ahmose II was a pharaoh ( 570 B. C. E.

General Amasis, sent to meet them and quell the revolt, was proclaimed king by the rebels instead, and Apries, who had now to rely entirely on his mercenaries, was defeated.

Amasis then married Chedebnitjerbone II, one of the daughters of his predecessor Apries, in order to legitimise his kingship.

Some information is known about the family origins of Amasis: his mother was a certain Tashereniset as a bust statue of this lady, which is today located in the British Museum, shows.

Herodotus describes how Amasis II would eventually cause a confrontation with the Persian armies.

According to Herodotus, Amasis, was asked by Cambyses II or Cyrus the Great for an Egyptian ophthalmologist on good terms.

Cambyses complied and requested a daughter of Amasis for marriage.

Amasis worrying that his daughter would be a concubine to the Persian king refused to give up his offspring ; Amasis also was not willing to take on the Persian empire so he concocted a trickery in which he forced the daughter of the ex-pharaoh Apries, whom Herodotus explicitly confirms to have been killed by Amasis, to go to Persia instead of his own offspring.

" Nitetis naturally, betrayed Amasis and upon being greeted by the Persian king explained Amasis's trickery and her true origins.

Amasis would send one of his eunuchs to capture Phanes, but the eunuch is bested by the wise council man and Phanes flees to Persia, meeting up with Cambyses providing advice in his invasion of Egypt.

This head probably came from a temple statue of Amasis II.

Amasis assigned the commercial colony of Naucratis on the Canopic branch of the Nile to the Greeks, and when the temple of Delphi was burnt, he contributed 1, 000 talents to the rebuilding.

He fled through the door and down the steps, running, and the men grunted and followed, pushing Lester to one side where he backed against the wall with the sleeve of his jacket raised before his eyes to shut out the light.

This man, Tom said, had the play shut up in his desk, I believe, and when Tom sat down, he pulled it out and apologetically told Tom that they wouldn't be able to use it.

An oversize unit will cool off your house quickly, then shut down for a long period.

Spread your vacation period over the widest possible span of time or shut the plant down for two weeks.

Back at the Factory-to-You with the other old maids, back there she was the youngest clerk and she was thirty-four, which made her young enough to resent the usual ideal working conditions, like the unventilated toilet with the door you had to hold shut while you sat down.

Cady snapped the Venetian blind shut and slammed himself down before the typewriter, rolled in a fresh sheet, and gave his letter the same savage attention he bestowed on a salesman who needed to have the bucket taken off his thick head.

Under Lincoln's leadership, the Union set up a naval blockade that shut down the South's normal trade, took control of the border slave states at the start of the war, gained control of communications with gunboats on the southern river systems, and tried repeatedly to capture the Confederate capital at Richmond, Virginia.

It was controversially shut down by the Russian authorities in June 2006, at the height of a Russian-Georgian spy scandal.

* 1965 – A Rolling Stones concert in London, Ontario is shut down by police after 15 minutes due to rioting.

" As examples, he seized the Bank of Tennessee, shut down secessionist newspapers and levied an assessment against wealthy secessionists, ostensibly to provide funds for wives and children of soldiers " forced " into service by the Confederacy.

* 1968 – Vietnam War: Student protesters at Columbia University in New York City take over administration buildings and shut down the university.

The newspaper was shut down immediately after.

However, those projects were shut down during development-some just short of their intended commercial release.

In 1996, Atari shut down its internal game development.

Eventually, the cellular companies initiated a system called RF Fingerprinting, where it could determine subtle differences in the signal of one phone from another and shut down some cloned phones.

Rogers Wireless has dismantled their AMPS ( along with IS-136 ) network ; the networks were shut down May 31, 2007.

After that point, however, most cellular companies were eager to shut down AMPS and use the remaining channels for digital services.

* AT & T Mobility-In areas where AT & T Mobility previously had D-AMPS operating on 1900 MHz frequencies, no analog AMPS network existed, and the D-AMPS network on the 1900 MHz frequency was shut down in mid-2007.

The Dobson AMPS and TDMA networks were shut down on March 1, 2008.

The AIM Call Out service was shut down on March 25, 2009.

One of the first reactions was to simply increase the guard, creating what at times might seem a small army trailing every leader ; another was to begin clearing large areas whenever a leader was present, to the point where entire sections of a city might be shut down.

Most of the mechanical clocks are now sold as antiquities as many factories were shut down after First World War and after Second World War.

Banking reform accelerated in 2001 as all the Communist-era payments bureaus were shut down ; foreign banks, primarily from Western Europe, now control most of the banking sector.

However, shortly after receiving a letter permitting the opening of the Bauhaus, Mies and the other faculty agreed to voluntarily shut down the school.

These programs continued until 1969, when by executive order President Richard Nixon shut down all programs related to American offensive use of biological weapons.