Ken Dowden observes that once the idea is dismissed that myth is directly narrating the movements of historical persons, that the loci of Danaian institutions at Lindos in Rhodes as well as at Argos suggests a Mycenaean colony sent to Rhodes from the Argolid, a tradition, in fact, that Strabo reports.

The only recorded instance of this type of vessel, in fact, is this showpiece galley built for Ptolemy IV, described by Callixenus of Rhodes, writing in the 3rd century BCE, and by Athenaeus in the 2nd century AD.

In fact almost nothing at all is known about Apollonius and even his connection with Rhodes is a matter for speculation.

In fact the epithet " of Rhodes " need not indicate any physical association with the island.

It might simply reflect the fact that he once wrote a poem about Rhodes.

Due to the fact that van Niekerk's government had announced to levy taxes on all trade going through its territory, both Cecil Rhodes, founder of the De Beers diamond company, and the British administration feared a setback for their endeavors in the mining-business, since Stellaland lay on one of the main trade routes.

This theory is based on the fact that in Jenness v. Fortson, 403 U. S. 431 ( 1971 ), the court upheld a restrictive ballot access law with this 5 % signature requirement, where as the Williams v. Rhodes ( 1969 ) had involved a 15 % signature requirement.

This despite the fact that during his reign, Crockett had an iron clad grip on the NWA World Heavyweight Championship as by that point, Ric Flair was locked in as champion and any title changes that occurred henceforth were to other wrestlers ( e. g. Dusty Rhodes, Ronnie Garvin, etc.

Athens, Rhodes, Pergamum and other Greek states retained substantial independence, and joined the Aetolian League as a means of defending it and restoring democracy in their states, where as they saw Macedon as a tyrannical kingdom because of the fact they had not adopted democracy.

* Dolly Parton as Doralee Rhodes, a secretary who is presume to be sleeping with Mr. Hart, despite the fact that she has refused his advances.

Hawkeye recruits Mockingbird, Wonder Man, Tigra, and Iron Man, with the last actually being Jim Rhodes as opposed to Tony Stark, a fact initially unknown to the team.

James Rhodes first appears as a prep school student and the victim of frequent bullying at the school due to his ethnicity, that he comes from a poorer family and the fact that he's there because of the school's racial quota.

Others were " Pensakola " ( rejected on account of the fact that it sounded too much like " pianola "), " Beattie College " ( after the former Vice-Chancellor, Sir Jock Carruthers Beattie ) and " Burleigh " ( after Rhodes ' house in England ).

Although Bonnington is mentioned in the 11th Century Domesday Book, little is known of its early history, other than the fact that for several centuries it was owned by the military order of chivalry known as the Knights Hospitaller of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem-which still exists ( Sovereign Military Hospitaller Order of St. John of Jerusalem of Rhodes and of Malta ) and was the inspiration in the nineteenth century for St. John Ambulance.

Convincing the military that the armors are in fact robots, both Tony and Jim Rhodes ( Ultimate War Machine ) suit up and go on the mission masquerading as robots.

Author Richard Rhodes also concludes the incident was an Israeli nuclear test, conducted in cooperation with South Africa, and that the United States administration deliberately obscured this fact in order to avoid complicating relations with South Africa.

Bob Michel replaced him in 1981, though Rhodes remained in the House for that Congress-a fact which he later termed a mistake.

His motivations may have included the fact he had to move himself to attend university and that while there he lost the Rhodes Scholarship to a full-time Toronto resident in what was regarded as a slight against Hamilton.

In fact, an estimated 500 different actors, including Gordon Pinsent, Donnelly Rhodes, Nicholas Campbell, Jayne Eastwood, Margot Kidder, Eric McCormack, Vlasta Vrana, Linda Kash, Gordon Clapp, and Wendy Crewson, Abby Zotz, had guest roles during the show's eight-year run.

Throughout the 1980s and early 1990s, he wrestled as " The Russian Nightmare " Nikita Koloff, which was a play on the nickname of fan favorite " The American Dream " Dusty Rhodes ( in fact, it was Rhodes who gave him the nickname ).

When Dusty Rhodes and Big Bubba Rogers ended up tied after the final match in San Francisco ( itself marred by the fact that the last two wrestlers in the ring were the Road Warriors, but they tossed a coin and the loser jumped out of the ring ), a two-man steel cage bunkhouse match ( where one wrestler had to throw the other out of the cage ) between the two determined the overall winner, over Jim Cornette's protests that Rogers should have been declared the winner because, while Rhodes had won as many of the matches, Rogers had won more money ( because while most of the matches had $ 25, 000 prizes, Rogers won a $ 100, 000 match in Atlanta ).

He served briefly during the American Civil War and married Charlotte Rhodes ; her father, Daniel Rhodes, took Hanna into his business after the war.

Even before his service, Hanna had fallen in love with Charlotte Augusta Rhodes, whom he met in 1862, shortly after her return from a finishing school.

Daniel Rhodes eventually yielded, and Mark and Charlotte Augusta Hanna were married on September 27, 1864.

His brother in law was Mark Hanna, a dominant leader of the Republican Party, but Rhodes himself was a Bourbon Democrat.

At last count, sixteen former Rhodes Scholars ( see box on page 13 ) had been appointed to the Administration, second in number only to its Harvard graduates.

Nero even threatened his mother he would abdicate the throne and would go to live on the Greek Island of Rhodes, a place where Tiberius had lived after divorcing Julia the Elder.

Meanwhile, in 1868, tombs at Ialysus in Rhodes had yielded to Alfred Biliotti many fine painted vases of styles which were called later the third and fourth " Mycenaean "; but these, bought by John Ruskin, and presented to the British Museum, excited less attention than they deserved, being supposed to be of some local Asiatic fabric of uncertain date.

Upon graduation, he won a Rhodes Scholarship to University College, Oxford where he studied Philosophy, Politics and Economics, though because he had switched programs and had left early for Yale University, he did not receive a degree there.

In Apollonius of Rhodes ' Argonautica it is recalled that Heracles had mercilessly slain their king, Theiodamas, over one of the latter's bulls, and made war upon the Dryopes " because they gave no heed to justice in their lives ".

This situation heightened tensions with some European nobility, especially as the Templars were indicating an interest in founding their own monastic state, just as the Teutonic Knights had done in Prussia and the Knights Hospitaller were doing with Rhodes.

For example, the British South Africa Company ( founded by the British imperialist Cecil Rhodes ) still retained commercial assets and mineral rights that it had acquired from a concession signed with the Litunga of Bulozi in 1890.

:" To extirpate inveterate abuses ; to reform a court which thrived on corruption, and detested the very name of reform ; to hold in leash young and warlike princes, ready to bound at each other's throats ; to stem the rising torrent of revolt in Germany ; to save Christendom from the Turks, who from Belgrade now threatened Hungary, and if Rhodes fell would be masters of the Mediterranean -- these were herculean labours for one who was in his sixty-third year, had never seen Italy, and was sure to be despised by the Romans as a ' barbarian '.

In August 1523 he was forced into an alliance with the Empire, England, and Venice against France ; meanwhile, in 1522 the Sultan Suleiman I ( 1520 – 66 ) had conquered Rhodes.

So furious were the Byzantine officials at this harsh rejection of the wishes of their emperor and patriarch that they threatened to roast Eugene, just as they had roasted Pope Martin I. Eugene was saved from the fate of his predecessor by the advance of the Muslims, who took Rhodes in 654 and defeated Constans himself in the naval battle of Phoenix ( 655 ).

He had his fleet concentrate on Rhodes with orders not only to resist the approach of the enemy, but to destroy their naval stores, and dispatched an army under Leo the Isaurian, afterwards emperor, to invade Syria.

Rhodes was dissatisfied with Roland's treatment of the marque, and had plans to re-introduce his iconic electric piano, but died before he was able to bring it to market.

* September 5 – Pope Clement V confirms the Knights Hospitaller possession of Rhodes, although only Feracle had fallen to their attacks.

They had three children: Jarvis Waring, Thomas Rhodes and Peter Barstow.

The Mycenaeans quickly penetrated the Aegean Sea and by the 15th century BC had reached Rhodes, Crete, Cyprus, where Teucer is said to have founded the first colony, and the shores of Asia Minor.

Also manufactured for a brief period was the Rhodes Mk III EK-10 which had analog oscillators and filters alongside the existing electromechanical elements.

King James ' embalmed heart was likely taken on pilgrimage to the Holy Land following his interment at Perth Charterhouse, as the Exchequer Rolls of Scotland for 1443 note the payment of £ 90 to cover the costs of a knight of the Order of St John who had returned it to the Charterhouse from the Island of Rhodes.

They were in a race against Cecil Rhodes ' British South Africa Company expanding from the south, which had already sent two failed expeditions to Msiri.

They say that when Menelaus was dead, and Orestes still a wanderer, Helen was driven out by Nicostratus and Megapenthes and came to Rhodes, where she had a friend in Polyxo, the wife of Tlepolemus.

During the fighting, Rhodes had sided with Ptolemy, and when Ptolemy eventually took control of Egypt, Rhodes and Ptolemaic Egypt formed an alliance which controlled much of the trade in the eastern Mediterranean.

In 305 BC he had his son Demetrius Poliorcetes, also a general, invade Rhodes with an army of 40, 000 ; however, the city was well defended, and Demetrius — whose name " Poliorcetes " signifies the " besieger of cities "— had to start construction of a number of massive siege towers in order to gain access to the walls.

Construction was left to the direction of Chares, a native of Lindos in Rhodes, who had been involved with large-scale statues before.