* March 21, 1980: Jamshid Hashimi and his brother Cyrus Hashimi meet at the latter's home.

* April 1980: Donald Gregg, a National Security Council aide with connections to George Herbert Walker Bush, meets Cyrus Hashimi in New York's Shazam restaurant, near Hashimi's bank.

Casey agrees the next day, naming Cyrus Hashimi as middleman to handle the arms transactions.

The Greco-Persian Wars had their roots in the conquest of the Greek cities of Asia Minor, and particular Ionia, by the Achaemenid Persian Empire of Cyrus the Great shortly after 550 BC.

* Cyrus ( architect ), 1st century Greek architect who worked in Rome

* Cyrus, Greek name of the Kura River in the South Caucasus

) ( Cyrus Gordon: < Semitic * kull -; or Greek holon " total "/" whole ").

) An early example of the Greek form of the name is in a 4th century BC work by Xenophon, the Cyropaedia, which is a biography of the Persian king Cyrus the Great.

* 400 BC: After Cyrus has been killed, his Greek mercenaries make their way back to Greece, where Sparta is so impressed with their feats in and march through Persia that they declare war on the Persians.

He had funded the restoration of the Jewish temple which had originally been decreed by Cyrus the Great, presented favour towards Greek cults which can be seen in his letter to Gadatas, and supported Elamite priests.

* 546 BC — Cyrus establishes a garrison in Sardis and incorporates the Greek cities of Ionia in Asia Minor into Persian Empire.

Cyrus started out with about 20, 000 men, of whom around 10, 000 were Greek mercenaries, including Spartans.

The Greek mercenaries fighting for Cyrus were left stranded after Cyrus ’ defeat.

Cyrus starts out with about 20, 000 men, of whom around 10, 000 are Greek mercenaries.

* The Greek mercenaries fighting for Cyrus are left stranded after Cyrus ' defeat.

Maka is mentioned by Greek historian Herodotus as one of the early satraps of Cyrus the Great, who successfully united several ancient Iranian tribes to create an empire .< ref >

* In Anabasis, Xenophon recounts how Cyrus the Younger hired a large army of Greek mercenaries ( the " Ten Thousand ") in 401 BC to seize the throne of Persia from his brother, Artaxerxes II.

Cyrus had 10, 400 Greek hoplites and 2, 500 peltasts, and an Asiatic army of approximately 10, 000 under the command of Ariaeus.

Route of Cyrus the Younger, Xenophon and the Ten Thousand ( Greek ) | Ten Thousand mercenaries

According to Plutarch's Life of Artaxerxes II, a young Persian soldier named Mithridates accidentally killed Cyrus the Younger during the Battle of Cunaxa ( Greek: Κούναξα ).

Subsequently appointed by the ephors to settle the political dissensions then rife at Byzantium and to protect the city and the neighbouring Greek colonies from Thracian attacks, he made himself tyrant of Byzantium, and, when declared an outlaw and driven thence by a Spartan force, he fled to Cyrus, leaving the garrison to Helixus of Megara ( see Coeratadas ).

The king was warned by Tissaphernes, who took part in the battle of Cunaxa, and afterwards tried to destroy the Greek mercenaries of Cyrus by treachery.

He now attacked the Greek cities, to punish them for their allegiance to Cyrus.

Cyrus gathered an army of Greek mercenaries, consisting of 10, 400 hoplites and 2, 500 peltasts, under the Spartan general Clearchus, and met Artaxerxes at Cunaxa.

Bardiya (, Bardiya ;,, Greek: Smerdis ) ( possibly died 522 BCE ) was a son of Cyrus the Great and the younger brother of Cambyses II, both Persian kings.

Xenophon accompanied the Ten Thousand, a large army of Greek mercenaries hired by Cyrus the Younger, who intended to seize the throne of Persia from his brother, Artaxerxes II.

Cyrus at first wants to remove her from the ship, but he cannot long resist Betty Lou's it factor ; he eventually corners her and proposes marriage, but she gets him back, by telling him that she'd " rather marry his office boy ", which accomplishes her goal, but breaks her heart.

Brzezinski seems to have been in favor of the provision of arms to the rebels, while Cyrus Vance's State Department, seeking a peaceful settlement, publicly accused Brzezinski of seeking to " revive " the Cold War.

When Smith was in the Carthage Jail in 1844, after he fired his last round in a small pepper-box pistol ( which had been given to him that morning by Cyrus Wheelock ), he held up his arms and may have been giving the Masonic call of distress, hoping Masons in the contingent would honor this call and not fire on him.

When they were ready, he sent a message to Cyrus, hidden in the belly of a hare, informing him the Medians would mutiny on the field, should he take arms against his grandfather.

Lara's father Bunty and one of his older sisters Agnes Cyrus enrolled him in the local Harvard Coaching Clinic at the age of six for weekly coaching sessions on Sundays.

This situation was resolved due to the efforts of Cyrus Adler, professor of Semitic languages at Johns Hopkins University and founder of the Jewish Publication Society, who convinced a number of wealthy German Reform Jews including Jacob Schiff, David and Simon Guggenheim, Mayer Sulzberger, and Louis Marshall, to contribute $ 500, 000 to the faltering JTS.

Cyrus the Great, the Persian king, refounded the city one mile southeast of its historic site at the mound of Tell es-Sultan and returned the Jewish exiles after conquering Babylon in 539 BCE.

Larissa was indeed the birthplace of Meno, who thus became, along with Xenophon and a few others, one of the generals leading several thousands Greeks from various places, in the ill-fated expedition of 401 ( retold in Xenophon's Anabasis ) meant to help Cyrus the Younger, son of Darius II, king of Persia, overthrow his elder brother Artaxerxes II and take over the throne of Persia ( Meno is featured in Plato's dialogue bearing his name, in which Socrates uses the example of " the way to Larissa " to help explain Meno the difference between true opinion and science ( Meno, 97a – c ) ; this " way to Larissa " might well be on the part of Socrates an attempt to call to Meno's mind a " way home ", understood as the way toward one's true and " eternal " home reached only at death, that each man is supposed to seek in his life ).

They had a son, Achilles Cyrus Alexander, born on 23 July 1825, in Palermo and baptized at San Bartolomeo's.

Plutarch said the inhabitants of Caria carried the emblem of the rooster on the end of their lances and relates that origin to Artaxerxes, who awarded a Carian who was said to have killed Cyrus the Younger at the battle of Cunaxa in 401 B. C " the privilege of carrying ever after a golden cock upon his spear before the first ranks of the army in all expeditions " and the Carians also wore crested helmets at the time of Herodotus, for which reason " the Persians gave the Carians the name of cocks ".

Information regarding Nabonidus is chiefly derived from a chronological tablet containing the annals of Nabonidus, supplemented by another inscription of Nabonidus where he recounts his restoration of the temple of the Moon-god at Harran ; as well as by a proclamation of Cyrus issued shortly after his formal recognition as king of Babylonia.

It was in the sixth year of Nabonidus ( 549 BC ) that Cyrus, the Achaemenid Persian " king of Anshan " in Elam, revolted against his suzerain Astyages, " king of the Manda " or Medes, at Ecbatana.

Astyages ' army betrayed him to his enemy, and Cyrus established himself at Ecbatana, thus putting an end to the empire of the Medes.

Cyrus now claimed to be the legitimate successor of the ancient Babylonian kings and the avenger of Bel-Marduk, who was assumed to be wrathful at the impiety of Nabonidus in removing the images of the local gods from their ancestral shrines to his capital Babylon.

While there is no absolute consensus on the kings before Darius, such as Cyrus and Cambyses, it is well established that Darius was an adherent of Zoroastrianism or at least a firm believer in Ahura Mazda.

* The Spartan admiral Lysander arrives at Ephesus in autumn and builds up a great fleet with help from the new Persian satrap, Cyrus.

During this time Lysander managed to engage the Athenian fleet and they were routed by the Spartan fleet ( with the help of the Persians under Cyrus ) at the Battle of Notium in 406 BC.

Callicratidas ' ability to continue the war at sea was neatly sabotaged when Lysander returned all the cash in hand to Cyrus when he left office

The two forces met at the Battle of Cunaxa, north of Babylon, where Cyrus was slain.

* The Persian satrap Tissaphernes ' enemy Parysatis, mother of Cyrus, succeeds in persuading Persian King Artaxerxes II to have him executed at Colossae, Phrygia ( now Turkey ).

Singer Manufacturing Co., at one time the largest sewing machine manufacturer, did not achieve interchangeable parts until the late 1880s, around the same time Cyrus McCormick adopted modern manufacturing practices in making harvesting machines.

According to the Bible, when the Jewish exiles returned to Jerusalem following a decree from Cyrus the Great ( Ezra 1: 1-4, 2 Chron 36: 22-23 ), construction started at the original site of Solomon's Temple, which had remained a devastated heap during the approximately 70 years of captivity ( Dan.

Though Cyrus ' army was victorious at the Battle of Cunaxa, Cyrus himself was killed in battle and the expedition rendered moot.

So Cyrus put all his means at the disposal of Lysander in the Peloponnesian War, but denied them to his successor Callicratidas.

The king had only been warned at the last moment by Tissaphernes and gathered an army in haste ; Cyrus advanced into Babylonia, before he met with an enemy.

In the " expedition of the ten thousand " undertaken by Cyrus to dethrone his brother Artaxerxes Mnemon, Clearchus led the Peloponnesian delegation of the Army of the Ten Thousand, who formed the right wing of Cyrus ’ s army at the battle of Cunaxa ( 401 ).