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It was the rumor of Alexander's death that triggered the assassination of Elagabalus and his mother.
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Upon Paul's arrival in Jerusalem, he was confronted with the rumor of teaching against the Law of Moses ().
However this rumor was quickly debunked by Hanks.
During his reign, Claudius revived the rumor that his father Drusus was actually the illegitimate son of Augustus, to give the false appearance that Augustus was Claudius ' paternal grandfather.
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According to a rumor repeated by Gassendi in his Regiomontanus biography he was assassinated by relatives of George of Trebizond whom he had criticized in his writings.
But it was no more than a rumor and nothing came of it.
Al-Maqrizi added to the rumor by claiming Muhammad's tomb was going to be relocated to Crusader territory so Muslims would make pilgrimages there.
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She spread a rumor that Elagabalus was the secret son of Caracalla.
On March 6, 222, when Alexander was just fourteen, a rumor went around the city troops that Alexander had been killed and this triggered his ascension as emperor.
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A rumor spread among the whites that the new Mount Zion Baptist Church was being used as a fortress and armory.
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For example, one rumor insisted the boy was the illegitimate son of a notaire abandoned at a young age because he was mute.
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Ptolemy Philometor, who was Alexander's father-in-law, went over to his side, and Alexander was defeated in the battle of Antioch ( 145 BC ) in Syria, sometimes known as the battle of the Oenoparus.
Guards watched throughout the night, except at Alexander's bedchamber, which was at the top of a ladder with a ferocious chained dog guarding the door.
His mother's chaplain and hagiographer Thurgot was named Bishop of Saint Andrews ( or Cell Rígmonaid ) in 1107, presumably by Alexander's order.
" The king referred to is Alexander's father, Malcolm III, and Domnall was Alexander's half brother.
Alexander's mother also opposed the marriage and was subsequently banished from the kingdom.
After Alexander's death, his strong realm was plunged into a period of darkness that would eventually lead to war with England.
By the 6th century Alexander's commentaries on Aristotle were considered so useful that he was referred to as " the commentator " ().
Several of Alexander's works were published in the Aldine edition of Aristotle, Venice, 1495 – 1498 ; his De Fato and De Anima were printed along with the works of Themistius at Venice ( 1534 ); the former work, which has been translated into Latin by Grotius and also by Schulthess, was edited by J. C. Orelli, Zürich, 1824 ; and his commentaries on the Metaphysica by H. Bonitz, Berlin, 1847.
As emperor, Alexander's peace time reign was prosperous.
Alexander's father, Marcus Julius Gessius Marcianus was a Syrian Promagistrate.
Alexander's maternal great-aunt was empress Julia Domna ( also Maesa's younger sister ) and his great-uncle in marriage was emperor Lucius Septimius Severus.
In his writing he makes mention of a moment when Alexander's secondary naval commander, Onesicritus, was reading the Amazon passage of his Alexander history to King Lysimachus of Thrace who was on the original expedition: the king smiled at him and said " And where was I, then?
It was one of four dynasties established by Alexander's successors, the others being the Seleucid dynasty, Ptolemaic dynasty and Attalid dynasty.
For his contemporaries, however, Alexander's fame was his inexhaustible interest in disputation.
The effectiveness of this combined-arms system was most dramatically demonstrated in Alexander's conquest of Persia, Bactria, and northwestern India.
Alexander's Notes on the Synthesis of Form was required reading for researchers in computer science throughout the 1960s.
Will Wright wrote that Alexander's work was influential in the origin of The Sims computer game, and in his later game Spore.
As Alexander's Feast ( 1736 ) was well received, Handel made a transition to English choral works.
After Alexander's death, his loosely connected empire was divided.
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He was thinking of Rittenhouse and how he had left him there, to rock to death on the porch of the Splendide.
And he was fleeing, running -- fleeing his death and his life at the same time.
laughing at a dying man, laughing as a man was beaten to death.
Matsuo had faked death and was pitched on a stack of corpses, both the burned and the unburned, the latter decomposing rapidly under the tropical sun.
So the verdict was `` death at the hands of a person or persons unknown '', and the elite of the city, accepting Delphine's testimony, welcomed her and the doctor back into the fold.
Yet implicit in each movement was the death of millions, perhaps hundreds of millions, perhaps you and me -- and the experts.
Almost from that day, until his death, Olgivanna was to stay at his side ; ;
The Coolidges' life, after the death of their son, was quieter than ever.
Whether the Fathers, who died before Christ was born of the Virgin Mary, were justified and saved only by the blood which he shed, and the death which he suffered after his incarnation??
Whether the only price of our redemption were not the death of Christ on the cross, with the rest of his sufferings and obediences, in the time of his life here, after he was born of the Virgin Mary??
`` Mr. Wolfe had been in declining health for many years and death was not unexpected ''.
So what Fred and Ralph did was to attempt to prorate the money fairly by taking into account what each of the five had received, if anything, from the estate before Papa's death.
The latter was so upset on learning of the death of Morris, that he wrote Morgan a letter, showing his own warmhearted generosity.
Spring was life -- and Alfred Alpert in his sickroom was death.
It was the first American war in which the death rate from disease was lower than that from battle, due to the provision of trained medical personnel ( of the 200,000 officers, 42,000 were physicians ), compulsory vaccination, rigorous camp sanitation, and adequate hospital facilities.
There can be no greater magic than to wrest from death her in whom the flesh was all, in whom beauty was entirely pure because it was entirely corruptible.
The medical examiner states that death was due to `` natural causes ''.
Rathbone said he was bleeding to death.
In my recollection, there was a long interval between the death of the officer and the appearance of the first of the retreating redcoats, and in that interval the dust cloud over the road seems to hover indefinitely.
One moment, the road was filled with disciplined troops, marching four by four with a purpose as implacable as death ; ;
But Michael Sept had unmasked him, revealing he had never been a bishop, but was an Anabaptist, afraid to state his faith, because he knew John Calvin had written a book against their belief that the soul slept after death.
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