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In 1871, Cyrus and Susan Mills paid $ 5, 000 for the Young Ladies ' Seminary in Benicia, renamed it Mills College, and moved it to its current location in Oakland, adjacent to what is now Seminary Boulevard.
* 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 ).
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.
He now attacked the Greek cities, to punish them for their allegiance to Cyrus.
The perfume factory, along with the island itself, is owned by Cyrus W. Gilfain, an American who finagled the business away from Dolores ' family and is now the island ’ s reigning sovereign and sole employer.
The Immortals played an important role in Cyrus the Great's conquest of the Neo-Babylonian Empire in 547 BC, Cambyses ' campaign against Egypt in 525 BC and Darius the Great's invasion of India's smaller western frontier kingdoms ( western Punjab and Sindh, now in Pakistan ) and Scythia in 520 BC and 513 BC.
" In response to the internet circulation of the photo and ensuing media attention, Miley Cyrus released a statement of apology on April 27: " I took part in a photo shoot that was supposed to be ' artistic ' and now, seeing the photographs and reading the story, I feel so embarrassed.
After Cyrus completed the conquest of Lydia, the Ionian cities now offered to be his subjects under the same terms as they had been subjects of Croesus.
After Cyrus finished the conquest of Lydia, the Ionian cities now offered to be his subjects under the same terms as they had been subjects of Croesus.
Cyrus now assumed the title of " king of Babylon ," claimed to be the descendant of the ancient kings, and made rich offerings to the temples.
* Billy Ray Cyrus, now better known as an actor, born in Flatwoods
Though the city itself is now in ruins, the burial place of Cyrus the Great has remained largely intact ; and the tomb has been partially restored to counter its natural deterioration over the years.
The river has its sources not far from Celaenae in Phrygia ( now Dinar ), where it gushed forth in a park of Cyrus.
Suggestions that the name originated from an early dedication of the local kirk, such as to " Saint Siris ", Saint Cyrus or Saint Cyricus are now discounted.
However, now the commentators are inclined to believe that Zul-Qarnain was Cyrus, an ancient king of Iran.
But under the guidance of Bob Cavallo and Abbey Konowitch, the label now releases records from a variety of major artists such as: Miley Cyrus, Lucy Hale, Stefano Langone, Demi Lovato, Jessica Sutta, Selena Gomez & The Scene, Jesse McCartney, Plain White T's currently and Drew Seeley, Hilary Duff, Corbin Bleu, Aly & AJ, Jordan Pruitt, Raven-Symoné, Honor Society and Ballas Hough Band in the past.
A key work in increasing public knowledge of the origins of the mounds was the 1894 report by Cyrus Thomas of the Bureau of American Ethnology ( now Smithsonian Institution ).
* Cyrus Peirce, graduate of Framingham Academy circa 1806 and first head of what is now Framingham State College
The Wraith attempted to stop Cyrus " The Colossus " Rhodes from escaping prison, but was unable to fool the villain now that the secret was public, forcing the Autobots to stop the Rhodes and making The Wraith look foolish.
The station leaned to a more Rhythmic format when it was previously broadcasting on 102. 7, but has now changed to a complete Top 40 format adding more artists like Linkin Park, The Fray, Nickelback, Boys Like Girls, Kings of Leon, Green Day, Miley Cyrus, Cobra Starship and Taylor Swift to compete with cross-town rival 98. 5 KLUC, which also in 2008 leaned to a more CHR Top 40 format from previously broadcasting a Rhythmic format.
When Cyrus died in the Battle of Cunaxa, the Greeks were forced to march through unfamiliar territory in what is now the countries of Iraq and Turkey while frequently being attacked by the people living in those regions.
In 1860 Cyrus Mills became president of Oahu College ( now known as Punahou School ).
The Cyrus Cylinder () is an ancient clay cylinder, now broken into several fragments, on which is written a declaration in Akkadian cuneiform script in the name of the Achaemenid king Cyrus the Great.

Cyrus and claimed
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.
The Cyrus chapters are similar in style and theme to the Cyrus cylinder, and it is possible that Deutero-Isaiah was influenced by the propaganda of Cyrus and his supporters, who claimed that the god Marduk had chosen Cyrus to liberate Babylon.
Artabazanes claimed the crown as the eldest of all the children, because it was an established custom all over the world for the eldest to have the pre-eminence ; while Xerxes, on the other hand, urged that he was sprung from Atossa, the daughter of Cyrus, and that it was Cyrus who had won the Persians their freedom.
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.
Meanwhile Clodius was supposed to be returning to Rome, after he had heard that Cyrus the architect had died, though Cicero, defending Milo, claimed that Clodius had, in fact, arranged an ambush.
Finally, Berossus claimed that Cyrus beat the Babylonian army, but this time, Nabonidus was supposed to have fled to nearby Borsippa.
Cyrus Vance's close aide Marshall Shulman claimed that the State Department tried to dissuade the Soviets from invading.
Cyrus McCormick claimed that his reaper was actually invented in 1831, giving him the true claim to the general design of the machine.
Many of the Iranian dynasties following the Achaemenid empire and their kings saw themselves as the heirs to Cyrus the Great and have claimed to continue the line begun by Cyrus.
Abolhassan Bani-Sadr, first elected President of Iran after the 1979 Iranian Revolution, claimed in a December 17, 1992 letter to the U. S. Congress, that he had first learned of the Republican " secret deal " in July 1980 after Reza Passendideh, a nephew of Khomeini, attended a meeting with Cyrus Hashemi and Republican lawyer Stanley Pottinger in Madrid on July 2, 1980.
Cyrus has orchestrated the abduction of Kathy and Bobby so that Arthur will become the 13th ghost, which will not stop the machine, as Kalina had claimed, but trigger its activation.
C. ( Cyrus ) Harry Brooks ( 1890 – 1951 ), author of various books on Coué, claimed the success rate of his method was around 93 %.
The gimmick was reminiscent of both Right to Censor, a stable created to parody the Parents Television Council, and The Network, an ECW stable led by Cyrus which claimed to represent TNN.
This passage has often been interpreted as a reference to the benign policy instituted by Cyrus of allowing exiled peoples, such as the Jews, to return to their original homelands The Cylinder's inscription has been linked with the reproduction in the Book of Ezra of two texts that are claimed to be edicts issued by Cyrus concerning the repatriation of the Jews and the reconstruction of the Temple in Jerusalem.

Cyrus and be
Tattenai, satrap over both Judah and Samaria, writes to Darius warning him that Jerusalem is being rebuilt and advising that the archives be searched to discover the decree of Cyrus.
The " servant of Yahweh " can be interpreted as any of three plausible characters: the first is an individual chosen by God, like Moses, Hezekiah, Josiah, Cyrus, etc., who is identified as a messianic figure of the future.
* Cyrus IMAP server, a mail server meant to be run on a sealed system
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 ).
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.
Some modern scholars also view the unusual decision of Darius to give the throne to Xerxes to be a result of his consideration of the unique positions that Cyrus the Great and his daughter Atossa have had.
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.
Cyrus the Great, founder of the Achaemenid dynasty, resolved to complete the conquest of Anatolia as a prelude to operations further west, to be carried out by his successors.
Since it is known that Helena ordered the Temple of Venus to the west of the Temple Mount to be torn down to construct the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, presumably she also ordered the Temple of Jupiter on the Temple Mount to be torn down to construct the Church of St. Cyrus and St. John.
Josephus names Astyages as the father of Darius the Mede, and the description of the latter as uncle and father-in-law of Cyrus by mediaeval Jewish commentators matches that of Cyaxares II, who is said to be the son of Astyages by Xenophon.
When Cyrus was sent by his father to be Satrap it was very important to him that if he should promise anything to anybody, it would not be a lie.
Cyrus himself received so many clothes, both for war and for decoration, as gifts that he said he would not be able to wear them all and instead gave them out.
Artaxerxes tried to claim the glory of having killed his brother himself, but when Mithridates boasted of killing Cyrus at court while flushed with wine, Artaxerxes had him executed for making him out to be a liar.
However, Clearchus, not desiring to do this-for fear of his right flank-refused, and promised Cyrus, according to Xenophon, that he would " take care that all would be well ".
On the other hand: " of what is not yours or your subjects ' one can be a bigger giver, as were Cyrus, Caesar, and Alexander, because spending what is someone else's does not take reputation from you but adds it to you ; only spending your own hurts you ".
In the spring of 1837, Cyrus Watson, the first settler on Green river, built a cabin on Thomas ' land, believing it to be vacant.
Industrialist Cyrus McCormick from Chicago commissioned the famed New York architectural firm of McKim, Mead, and White to build a shingle-style " cottage " for him and his family on the edge of the village, on Warren Street, the estate would be known as Clayton Lodge.
The story told growing up in Ardsley by elderly neighbors is that Cyrus W. Field agreed to use his influence to get the post office established, and in return the village would be renamed Ardsley.
Apparently, Cyrus chose to go to Greenbrier County to be with his brothers, Gideon and Paul, who were running a general store at Clintonville.

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