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* Cyrus Townsend Brady's Hohenzollern ; a Story of the Time of Frederick Barbarossa ( 1901 ) begins with a dedication to " the descendants of the great Germanic race who in Europe, in America, and in the Far East rule the world ".
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Cyrus and army
* 539 BC – The army of Cyrus the Great of Persia takes Babylon.
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 ".
Under the pretext of fighting Tissaphernes, the Persian satrap of Ionia, Cyrus assembled a massive army composed of native Persian soldiers, but also a large number of Greeks.
Prior to waging war against Artaxerxes, Cyrus proposed that the enemy was the Pisidians, and so the Greeks were unaware that they were to battle against the larger army of King Artaxerxes II.
The army of Cyrus met the army of Artaxerxes II in the Battle of Cunaxa.
However, Cyrus starts collecting an army to benefit his own interests, rather than his father's.
Astyages ' army betrayed him to his enemy, and Cyrus established himself at Ecbatana, thus putting an end to the empire of the Medes.
Before Cyrus and his army crossed the Aras River to battle with northern tribes, he installed his son Cambyses II as king in case he should not return from battle.
However, it was customary for every emperor from Cyrus until Darius III to have an empty chariot drawn by white horses to accompany the Persian army on battles.
* Cyrus the Younger uses a quarrel with Tissaphernes over the Ionian cities as a pretext for gathering a large army and also pretends to prepare an expedition to Pisidia, in the Taurus Mountains.
* 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.
Though Cyrus ' army was victorious at the Battle of Cunaxa, Cyrus himself was killed in battle and the expedition rendered moot.
He sent Cyrus the Younger into Asia Minor, as satrap of Lydia and Phrygia Major with Cappadocia, and commander of the Persian troops, " which gather into the field of Castolos ", i. e. of the army of the district of Asia Minor.
Cyrus managed to gather a large army by beginning a quarrel with Tissaphernes, satrap of Caria, about the Ionian towns ; he also pretended to prepare an expedition against the Pisidians, a mountainous tribe in the Taurus, which was never obedient to the Empire.
In the spring of 401 BC, Cyrus united all his forces into an army now including Xenophon's " Ten Thousand ", and advanced from Sardis, without announcing the object of his expedition.
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.
Cyrus had 10, 400 Greek hoplites and 2, 500 peltasts, and an Asiatic army of approximately 10, 000 under the command of Ariaeus.
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 ).
On the downfall of Athens, Cyrus and Tissaphernes both claimed jurisdiction over the Ionian cities, most of which acknowledged Cyrus as their ruler ; but Tissaphernes took possession of Miletus, where he was attacked by Cyrus, who gathered an army under this pretence with the purpose of using it against his brother Artaxerxes II.

Cyrus and mercenaries
* 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.
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.
Route of Cyrus the Younger, Xenophon and the Ten Thousand ( Greek ) | Ten Thousand mercenaries
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.
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.
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.
In 404 BC when Cyrus the Younger attempted to seize the Persian throne, he recruited 13, 000 Greek mercenaries from all over the Greek world of which Sparta sent 700 – 800, believing they were following the terms of the treaty and unaware of the army's true purpose.
), about the Army of the Ten Thousand – Greek mercenaries taking part in the expedition of Cyrus the Younger, a Persian prince, against his brother, King Artaxerxes II
Xenophon describes it, in Book I of his Anabasis, as the place where Cyrus mustered his Greek mercenaries in 401 BC:

Cyrus and including
Between 1878 and 1882 Rassam greatly improved the Museum's holdings with exquisite objects including the Cyrus Cylinder from Babylon, the bronze gates from Balawat, and a fine collection of Urartian bronzes.
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 issued a proclamation granting subjugated nations ( including the people of Judah ) religious freedom.
Brzezinski ran up against members of his own Democratic Party who disagreed with this interpretation of détente, including Secretary of State Cyrus Vance.
The success of this marketing led to further development of the genre, including new teen idols such as Zac Efron, Miley Cyrus, Vanessa Hudgens, Ashley Tisdale, Corbin Bleu, Raven-Symoné and the Jonas Brothers, Demi Lovato, Selena Gomez and Bridgit Mendler.
Country music stars including Loretta Lynn, Wynonna Judd, Naomi Judd, Billy Ray Cyrus, Tom T. Hall, Ricky Skaggs, Keith Whitley, Dwight Yoakam, and Patty Loveless are all from the Big Sandy Valley.
Main Street was created in 1819 and has numerous buildings dating back to the nineteenth century, including the Cyrus G. Blatt home ( 501-503 N. Main ), the Eagle Hotel ( 301 N. Main ) and the Joseph B. Conrad home ( 219 N. Main ).
Cyrus ' father, Henry, died in 1835 and most of the family, including Gideon, then migrated westward to Pekin, Illinois.
The Garden of Cyrus is Browne's Neo-Pythagorean vision of the interconnection of art, nature and the Universe via numerous symbols, primarily the number five, and the quincunx pattern and number five along with variants, including the figure X and Network or lattice design.
The characters in the miniseries refer several times to figures from the various books, including Will Denison, Gideon Altaire, and Lee Crabb, whose son Cyrus features as the antagonist.
During the early-to-middle part of the decade, several recordings were influenced by the popularity of line dancing, including " Boot-Scootin ' Boogie " by Brooks & Dunn and " Achy Breaky Heart " by Billy Ray Cyrus.
Soon Nathan and his son Cyrus ( Malcolm Danare ) are driven insane as well and begin terrorizing those who come to the farm, including the other children Zack ( Wil Wheaton ) and Alice ( Amy Wheaton ).
Also, several Hollywood artists including Miley Cyrus, Jonas Brothers, Demi Lovato, Selena Gomez & the Scene, Nick Jonas & the Administration, Joe Jonas, Lawson Connect 3 and Annel Cereceres are directly signed to Universal Music UK's Fascination Records.
Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis ( June 18, 1850 – June 7, 1933 ) was an American publisher of magazines and newspapers, including the Ladies ' Home Journal and the Saturday Evening Post.
In addition to Babylonia itself, Cyrus probably incorporated its subnational entities into his Empire, including Syria, Judea, and Arabia Petraea, although there is no direct evidence of this fact.
Through his military savvy, Cyrus created an organized army including the Immortals unit, consisting of 10, 000 highly trained soldiers.
The bridge that McQueen sees Sally driving on resembles several bridges on Route 66, including the Cyrus Avery Route 66 Memorial Bridge in Tulsa, the Colorado Street Bridge in Pasadena, California, and the now-closed bridge over Diablo Canyon at Two Guns, Arizona.
His songs have been performed by a growing list of artists and collaborators, including Mavis Staples, Colin James, Stephen Fearing, Adam Gregory, Billy Ray Cyrus, Craig Northey, David Ricketts and Edwin.
G-Force was the first live-action Disney film to be produced in Disney Digital 3-D, not including two concert films, Hannah Montana & Miley Cyrus: Best of Both Worlds Concert and Jonas Brothers: The 3D Concert Experience.
Several of the men are killed during the ensuing fight, including Cyrus himself.
He was especially close to some of the greatest biblical teachers of his day, including James Martin Gray, Cyrus Scofield, A. C. Dixon, Horatius Bonar and E. W. Bullinger.
The library also holds the personal letters of more than 50 Jewish-American leaders from the 1800s and 1900s, including Isaac Leeser, Abraham Neuman, Cyrus Adler ( a former Dropsie College president ), Mary M. Cohen, Sabato Morais, Charles Cohen, Ben Zion Goldberg, and the benefactor Dropsie.

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