* Spring – Battle of Dara: Belisarius and Hermogenes ( magister officiorum ) defeat a combined Persian-Arab army of 50, 000 men at Dara ( modern Turkey ).

Though he does not name his source for such a self-conscious and " literary " approach, it must be in traditions passed on from Hellenistic architects, such as Hermogenes of Priene, the architect of a famed temple of Artemis at Magnesia on the Meander in Lydia ( now Turkey ).

The Byzantines finally blocked the Persian advance at Chalcis, where reinforcements under Hermogenes also arrived, bringing the Byzantine force to some 20, 000 men.

The emperor was at Antioch when he heard of this, where he ordered Hermogenes, his general of cavalry, to see that Paulus was again expelled.

Belisarius was sent back to the region with Hermogenes as his co-commander and 25, 000 men in 530 ; Kavadh replied with another 10, 000 troops under the general Perozes, who set up camp about five kilometers away at Ammodius.

Interest in Hermogenes of Priene ( late 3rd-early 2nd century BCE ), the Hellenistic architect of a temple of Artemis Leukophryene ( Artemision ) at Magnesia in Lydia, an Ionian colony on the banks of the Maeander river in Anatolia, has been sparked by references to his esthetic made by the 1st century Roman architect Vitruvius ( De Architectura, books iii, 2 and 6 ).

It is probable that Hermogenes had indeed witnessed the trial: although Plato's Apology does not mention his presence, his Phaedo lists Hermogenes among those who were present at Socrates ' death.

Finally, whereas Socrates ' willingness to face the death penalty is in Plato's Apology explained by Socrates ' unwavering commitment to his divinely appointed mission to keep philosophizing at all costs, it is explained in the Xenophon / Hermogenes version by the claim that it is better for him to die now than to face the pains and limitations of advanced old age

* Martyrs Callista and her brothers Evodos and Hermogenes at Nicomedia ( 309 )

During more than half of the dialogue, Socrates makes guesses at Hermogenes ' request as to where names and words have come from.

The throne was vacant ; the great nobles ( boyars ) quarrelled among themselves ; Orthodox Patriarch Hermogenes was imprisoned ; Catholic Poles occupied the Moscow Kremlin and Smolensk ; the Protestant Swedes occupied Novgorod ; continuing Tatar raids left the south borderlands of Russia completely depopulated and devastated ; and enormous bands of brigands swarmed everywhere.

Hermogenes, or Germogen ( before 1530-February 17, 1612 ), was the Patriarch of Moscow and all Russia from 1606.

* Patriarch Hermogenes ( 1530 – 1612 ), Patriarch of all Russia

In a break with tradition, a " home " fixture against Argentina took place at Millennium Stadium in Cardiff on 23 May 2005, before the Lions went to New Zealand.

" 20: 10 Satan will join the Antichrist and the False Prophet, who were condemned to the lake of fire at the beginning of the Millennium.

Following the judgement at that time, the accepted receive the gift of immortality, and live with Christ on a restored Earth, assisting him to establish the Kingdom of God and to rule over the mortal population for a thousand years ( the Millennium ).

The Special Programme for Food Security is FAO's flagship initiative for reaching the goal of halving the number of hungry in the world by 2015 ( currently estimated at close to 1 billion people ), as part of its commitment to the Millennium Development Goals.

Early finals were played in other locations and, due to extensive redevelopment of Wembley, finals between 2001 and 2006 were played at Millennium Stadium in Cardiff.

In 2005, both were held at the Millennium Stadium.

American Horror Film: The Genre at the Turn of the Millennium ( University Press of Mississippi ; 2010 ), 253 pages.

At the turn of the 21st century, London hosted the much derided Millennium Dome at Greenwich, to mark the new century.

; Litvin, Alter L. Stalinism: Russian and Western Views at the Turn of the Millennium ( Totalitarian Movements and Political Religions ).

Millennium Gardens at Lamorna

They won the 2003 – 04 FA Cup, beating Millwall 3 – 0 in the final at the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff.

It co-sponsors the Millennium Seed Bank Project inside the Wellcome Trust Millennium Building at Wakehurst Place in Sussex.

The Role of Ceramics in the Early First Millennium Bc Iron Production at Tell Hammeh ( Az-Zarqa ), Jordan.

Some were sent to friends, listeners and critics and two dozen were left for sale on consignment at Music Millennium Records where they sat unsold for months.

SNK released the first game of this type, SNK vs. Capcom: The Match of the Millennium, for its Neo Geo Pocket Color handheld at the end of 1999.

( See more at Millennium.

** Millennium Force opens at Cedar Point amusement park in Sandusky, Ohio as the world's tallest and fastest roller coaster.

* September 6 – September 8 – World leaders attend the Millennium Summit at UN Headquarters.

* November 8 – Millennium ' 73, a festival hosted by Guru Maharaj Ji at the Astrodome, is called by supporters the " most significant event in human history ".

* Robert Lacey and Danny Danziger The Year 1000: What Life Was Like at the Turn of the First Millennium ( 1999 ) ISBN 0-316-55840-0

The Millennium Dome at night, September 2000

After a private opening on the evening of 31 December 1999 the Millennium Experience at the Dome was open to the public for the whole of 2000, and contained a large number of attractions and exhibits.

) Outside was the Millennium Map ( thirteen metres high ), the Childhood Cube, Looking Around ( a hidden installation ), Greenwich Pavilion, the Hanging Gardens at the front of the Dome, as well as a number of other installations and sculpture.

According to the UK National Audit Office, the total cost of The Dome at the liquidation of the New Millennium Experience Company in 2002 was £ 789 million, of which £ 628 million was covered by National Lottery grants and £ 189 million through sales of tickets etc.

He was brigadier of the club's locker-room light infantry, and at one time or another declared war on Russia, Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, and China.

If our SAC bombers were, today, capable of surviving a surprise missile attack and because of infinite dispersion or long endurance had the capability to strike at Russia again, and again, and again, those bombers would unquestionably assure our military dominance.

Professor McNeill thinks that at Yalta, Stalin did not fully realize the dilemma which faced him, that he thought the exclusion of the anti-Soviet voters from East European elections would not be greatly resented by his allies, while neither Roosevelt nor Churchill frankly faced `` the fact that, in Poland at least, genuinely free democratic elections would return governments unfriendly to Russia '', by any definition of international friendliness.

I am prepared to demonstrate at anytime that it represents the spirit of Imperial Russia in its most vulgar, infantile, and reactionary aspect ; ;

But, obviously, at least some things have changed for the better in Russia so far as the ballet is concerned.

Chaplin, 71, who met K. when the Soviet boss visited England in 1956, confided that he hopes to visit Russia some time this summer because `` I have marveled at your grandiose experiment and I believe in your future ''.

Secretary-General Hammarskjold decided that it would be preferable if the U.N. troops sent into the Congo were to come from African, or at least nonwhite, nations -- certainly not from the U.S., Russia, Great Britain or France.

This leader must be a man who lives above illusions that heretofore have shaped the foreign policy of the United States, namely that Russia will agree to a reunited Germany, that the East German government does not exist, that events in Japan in June 1960 were Communist-inspired, that the true government of China is in Formosa, that Mao was the evil influence behind Khrushchev at the Summit Conference in Paris in May 1960, and that either China or Russia wants or expects war.

Alaska was purchased from Russia on March 30, 1867, for $ 7. 2 million ($ adjusted for inflation ) at approximately two cents per acre ($ 4. 74 / km² ).

Nobel and his parents returned to Sweden from Russia and Nobel devoted himself to the study of explosives, and especially to the safe manufacture and use of nitroglycerine ( discovered in 1847 by Ascanio Sobrero, one of his fellow students under Théophile-Jules Pelouze at the University of Turin ).

This led the government to propose reconstruction of the Armenian Atomic Power Station at Metsamor, which was closed after the 1988 earthquake because of its location in an earthquake-prone area and which had the same safety problems as reactors listed as dangerous in Bulgaria, Russia, and Slovakia.

Bilateral trade with Russia stood at more than $ 700 million for the first nine months of 2010 – on track to rebound to $ 1 billion mark first reached in 2008 prior to the global economic crisis.

The Upper Lars border crossing ( at Darial Gorge ) between Georgia and Russia across the Caucasus Mountains served as Armenia's sole overland route to the former Soviet Union and Europe.

His diary was much-read throughout Russia, and at least seventy-five manuscript copies survive.

* 1914 – Germany declares war on Russia at the opening of World War I.

* 2009 – An accident at the Sayano – Shushenskaya Dam in Khakassia, Russia, kills 75 and shuts down the hydroelectric power station, leading to widespread power failure in the local area.

He afforded refuge in Ottoman territory to Charles XII of Sweden ( 1682 – 1718 ) after the Swedish defeat at the hands of Peter I of Russia ( 1672 – 1725 ) in the Battle of Poltava of 1709.

In 1710 he convinced the Ottoman Sultan Ahmed III to declare war against Russia, and the Ottoman forces under Baltacı Mehmet Pasha won a major victory at the Battle of Prut.

Forced against his will into war with Russia, Ahmed III came nearer than any Ottoman sovereign before or since to breaking the power of his northern rival, whose armies his grand vizier Nevşehirli Damat İbrahim Pasha succeeded in completely surrounding at the Pruth River Campaign in 1711.

It was then that he began to study the principles of law and administration under Konstantin Pobedonostsev, then a professor of civil law at Moscow State University and later ( from 1880 ) chief procurator of the Holy Synod of the Orthodox Church in Russia.

Peter felt insulted: the flight of the tsarevich to a foreign potentate was a reproach and a scandal, and he had to be recovered and brought back to Russia at all costs.

Abakan (; Khakas: Ағбан ) is the capital city of the Republic of Khakassia, Russia, located in the central part of Minusinsk Depression, at the confluence of the Yenisei and Abakan Rivers.

He was soon at war with Russia, and his aid was eagerly solicited by both England and Napoleon, anxious to checkmate one another in the East.