Daniel has a lengthy vision ( 10: 1-12: 13 ) in the third year of Cyrus king of Persia, around 536 BCE, regarding conflicts between the " King of the North " and the " King of the South " (= Egypt, 11: 8 ).

Chapters 40 – 55 fall into two parts, with 40 – 48 dealing with the rise of Cyrus, while 49 – 55 are focused on Zion as the wife whom God has renounced and then taken back.

The song has been covered by artists such as Geri Halliwell, Megadeth, Jessica Simpson, Lil ' Kim, Little Birdy, Billy Ray Cyrus, Faster Pussycat, KMFDM, Symarip, Operation Ivy and the Del Rubio Triplets and The Supremes.

* 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.

This building was constructed around the time of Cyrus the Great, and has been a popular tourist attraction ever since.

At Naqsh-e Rustam can be found the tombs of the Achaemenid kings as well as the Ka ' ba-ye Zartosht, which has been thought to be either a Zoroastrian fire temple or possibly even the true tomb of Cyrus the Great.

) stone platform known as Takht-e Rustam near Naqsh-e Rustam has long been seen by archaeologists as a possible location for Cambyses's tomb, based on the similarity of its design and dimensions with those of the tomb of Cyrus in Pasargadae.

In 1969, Cyrus Levinthal noted that, because of the very large number of degrees of freedom in an unfolded polypeptide chain, the molecule has an astronomical number of possible conformations.

Parysatis cannot forgive Tissaphernes for the rough treatment he has handed out to her favourite son, the late Cyrus.

Grampa has an older brother named Cyrus, who lives in Tahiti and has multiple native wives.

Since its opening, the Prudential Center in 2007 has presented Diana Ross, Katy Perry, Lady Gaga, Britney Spears, The Eagles, Hannah Montana / Miley Cyrus, Spice Girls, Jonas Brothers, Metro Station, Metallica, Alicia Keys, Demi Lovato, David Archuleta, Taylor Swift and American Idol Live !, among others.

R & B and pop singer Cody Simpson has achieved international acclaim and has been compared to the likes of Justin Bieber and Miley Cyrus.

Recently, Stephanie West has argued that the historical Croesus did in fact die on the pyre, and that the stories of him as a ' wise adviser ' to the courts of Cyrus and Cambyses are purely legendary, showing similarities to the sayings of Ahiqar.

* Brian Coless has suggested that Donald Wiseman " cut the Gordian knot " of " the intractable problem of identifying King Darius the Mede " in the Book of Daniel, by identifying Darius with Cyrus the Great.

The sun has always been a symbol in Iranian culture and is closely related to the folklore regarding Cyrus the Great himself.

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 ).

The name figures in toponyms such as Finella Hill ( near Fordoun ) and Finella Den ( near St Cyrus ), while local tradition in The Mearns ( Kincardineshire ) has Finella walking atop the treetops from one location to the other.

" The occasion was the reception of the welcome of Cyrus W. Field, Esq., the world-renowned parent of the Atlantic Telegraph Cable scheme, which has been so successfully completed.

The study and science of horticulture dates all the way back to the times of Cyrus the Great of ancient Persia, and has been going on ever since, with present day horticulturists such as Freeman S. Howlett, and the revolutionary horticulturist Luther Burbank.

The village has an elementary school, named after Cyrus Eaton, as well as a regional high school that draws students from around rural Cumberland County.

Although the Jewish traditions encapsulate parts of this story, a deeper insight has been given in the Qur ' anic passages referring to Zul-Qarnayn ( Cyrus of Babylon ).

The second reason for The Garden of Cyrus being little-known is the sheer difficulty of the text itself, which has baffled all but the most determined readers.

An episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation called " The Big Goodbye " has holographic villain called Cyrus Redblock, played by Lawrence Tierney, whose surname is an obvious reference to Greenstreet's surname and whose character is a reference to Greenstreet's character Kasper Gutman ( The Fat Man ) in The Maltese Falcon.

It is difficult to describe the parties and politics of Judah in this period because of the lack of historical source, but there seem to have been three important groups involved: the returnees from the exile who claimed the reconstruction with the support of Cyrus I ; " the adversaries of Judah and Benjamin "; and a third group, " people of the land ," who seem to be local opposition against the returnees building the Temple in Jerusalem.

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.

This term had been used in the Qur ' an to refer to Cyrus the Great or alternatively Alexander the Great, who considered himself the son of the horned deity Ammon-Zeus, and wore horns as a part of his regalia.

The first transatlantic telegraph cable had been laid in 1858 ( see Cyrus West Field ).

On a tablet dated from the first year of Cyrus, Cambyses is called king of Babylon, although his authority seems to have been ephemeral.

Toynbee concludes that the conquest of the world by elder branch of the House of Achaemenes had been achieved by the valor of the Kuru and Kamboja Nomad reinforcements, hence as a commemoration, the elder branch of the House had named all their great princes from Cyrus-I onwards, alternately, as Cyrus ( Kurosh / Kuru ) and Cambyses ( Kambujiya / Kamboja ).

The invasion of Babylonia by Cyrus was doubtless facilitated by the existence of a disaffected party in the state, as well as by the presence of foreign forced exiles like the Jews, who had been planted in the midst of the country.

The feeling was still strong that none had a right to rule over western Asia until he had been consecrated to the office by Bel and his priests ; and accordingly, Cyrus henceforth assumed the imperial title of " King of Babylon.

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.

It was previously believed that Cyrus had constructed this building, however due to the cuneiform script being used, the palace is believed to have been constructed by Darius.

And finally, a destitute mountain country would have been a poor reward for Cyrus ' best general.

" If Moses, Cyrus, Theseus, and Romulus had been unarmed they could not have enforced their constitutions for long — as happened in our time to Fra Girolamo Savonarola, who was ruined with his new order of things immediately the multitude believed in him no longer, and he had no means of keeping steadfast those who believed or of making the unbelievers to believe.

* Artaxerxes II King of Persia appoints Tissaphernes to take over all the districts in Asia Minor over which Artaxerxes II's brother Cyrus had been governor before his revolt.

The Second Temple also included many of the original vessels of gold that had been taken by the Babylonians but restored by Cyrus the Great.

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.

And Cyrus made sure that anyone who had formerly been his enemy but had made a peace treaty would not suffer anything in violation of the treaty.

Before the final attack began, Xenophon, the main relator of the events at Cunaxa, who was probably at the time some kind of mid-level officer, approached Cyrus to ensure that all the proper orders and dispositions had been made.

Only after the battle did they hear that Cyrus himself had been killed, making their victory irrelevant and the expedition a failure.

His favourite style seems to have been dialogues, some of them being vehement attacks on his contemporaries, as on Alcibiades in the second of his two works entitled Cyrus, on Gorgias in his Archelaus and on Plato in his Satho.