One, Obodas I, was deified after his death.

It was dedicated to Obodas I and is believed to be the symposium of Obodas the god.

The city's original name was changed to Avdat in honor of Nabataean King Obodas I, who, according to tradition, was revered as a deity and was buried there.

Near Golan, Alexander Jannaeus was ambushed by Obodas, king of the Arabians, and his army.

There is no evidence of any pretext for the annexation — Rabbel II had an heir by the name of Obodas — and though there was little fighting and gloria ( attested to by the fact that Trajan did not adopt the appellation Arabicus, as he did Dacius when he conquered Dacia ), there does seem to have been enough of a defeat to cause some humiliation on the part of the Nabataeans.

I knew that three or four of them were almost always present in the hall, but what they were doing, and exactly where, I could not tell.

Was I sure, he asked, that I knew what I was applying for??

I said that it didn't make any difference to me either, as far as I knew.

How far I knew will shortly become apparent.

Two uniformed officers, a couple of plain-clothesmen I knew, and two other men stood on a gray cement area next to the pool on my left.

Something clicked in this instance, but I treated her circumspectly and I felt that she knew it, for we both kept our distance.

If it were not that I knew who it was I could have mistaken it for my Aunt so well did her clothes fit him.

`` They knew I was a good sharecrop farmer back in Carolina, but out West was a chance to build a real farm of our own.

I came up maybe fifty feet before I knew what was happening ''.

I knew that a conversation with the author would not settle such questions, because a man is not the same as his writing: in the last analysis, the questions had to be settled by the work itself.

`` I knew I was carrying on with abstraction to its very end -- for me '', he said of the two years' output in Virginia.

`` It was then I knew that they were making war against Man, the individual within!!

), I have never wanted to know what you knew of passion.

I knew this knowledge to be corrupting at the time I acquired it ; ;

I remember one day when Mr. Hearst ( and I never knew why he liked me, either ) sent the Hetman a telegram: `` Please find some more reporters like that young man from Denver ''.

I belong to Master Alexander Prieur ''.

`` I thought '', Midshipman Rogers had told Alexander, `` that Spencer was teaching him geometry ''.

Although his respect for Aristotle was diminished as his travels made it clear that much of Aristotle's geography was clearly wrong, when the old philosopher released his works to the public, Alexander complained " Thou hast not done well to publish thy acroamatic doctrines ; for in what shall I surpass other men if those doctrines wherein I have been trained are to be all men's common property?

* 1876 – Alexander I of Serbia ( d. 1903 )

Alexander I of Epirus (, 370 BC – 331 BC ), also known as Alexander Molossus (), was a king of Epirus ( 350 – 331 BC ) of the Aeacid dynasty.

As the son of Neoptolemus I and brother of Olympias, Alexander I was an uncle of Alexander the Great.

In 334 BC, Alexander I, at the request of the Greek colony of Taras ( in Magna Graecia ), crossed over into Italy, to aid them in battle against several Italic tribes, the Lucanians and Bruttii.

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Silver coin of Alexander I " Balas ".

Along with his sister Laodice VI, the youngster Alexander was " discovered " by Heracleides, a former minister of Antiochus IV and brother of Timarchus, an usurper in Media who had been executed by the reigning king Demetrius I Soter.

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Alexander I of Poland in Senate

In disposition Alexander bore little resemblance to his soft-hearted, liberal father, and still less to his refined, philosophic, sentimental, chivalrous, yet cunning granduncle, emperor Alexander I of Russia, who could have been given the title of " the first gentleman of Europe ".

Alexander I ( c. 1078 – 23 April 1124 ), also called Alaxandair mac Maíl Coluim ( Modern Gaelic: Alasdair mac Mhaol Chaluim ) and nicknamed " The Fierce ", was King of the Scots from 1107 to his death.

Edgar's will granted David the lands of the former kingdom of Strathclyde or Cumbria, and this was apparently agreed in advance by Edgar, Alexander, David and their brother-in-law Henry I of England.

The reverse of the seal ( device ) | seal of Alexander I, enhanced as a 19th century steel engraving.

Alexander had at least one illegitimate child, Máel Coluim mac Alaxandair, who was later to be involved in a revolt against David I in the 1130s.

Alexander I has been depicted in a fantasy novel.

I remember being told it would happen so fast people would think it took place overnight.

As I dug in behind one of the bales we were using as protection, I grudgingly found myself agreeing with Oso's logic, especially when I imagined what would have happened to Missy if Old Knife's large party of screeching warriors had overrun our company.

`` That quirt -- I ought to use it on you, where it would do the most good.

I would turn away from my writing in the hope of getting a good look at them but I never quite succeeded.

He pointed out the switch to me and for a moment I foolishly believed that he would let deed follow words.

Later I would remember what this pompous little man had told me about the worth of a ticket.

By counting the number of stalls and urinals I attempted to form a loose estimate of how many men the hall would hold at one time.

No sooner would I turn my head away from the counter before he would address me, at times quite sharply, in order to bring back my attention.

As I had expected, he insisted that my visits to the hall would do nothing to further the process of my application.

What sort of men I would come into contact with, at the hall??

Though I doubted that he would understand me, I told the director my motives for applying.

Donald Kruger would like nothing better than to hold him as hostage, and I wouldn't entrust a snake to his tender care.

`` What else would I mean, anyways ''??

`` A body would swear I floated right up here on a cloud ''!!

Forced to realize that this was the end of a very short line I scanned a road marker and discovered what the end of a slightly longer line would be for the old Mexican: Moriarty, New Mexico.

I would have foregone my romantic chances rather than leave a friend sweltering and dusty and -- Well, at least I wouldn't have shouted back a taunt.

I let up on the accelerator, only to gradually reach again the 60 m.p.h. which would, I hoped, overhaul Herry and the blonde, and as there were cars whose drivers apparently had something more important to catch than had I, Mrs. Major Roebuck settled down to practicing on Corporal Johnson the kittenish wiles she would need when making her duty call on Colonel and Mrs. Somebody in Sante Fe.