Agathocles ( 361 – 289 BC ), ( Greek name Ἀγαθοκλῆς ( Agathokles ): derived from αγαθός ( agathos ) good and κλέος ( kleos ) glory ), was a Greek tyrant of Syracuse ( 317 – 289 BC ) and king of Sicily ( 304 – 289 BC ).

He was twice banished for attempting to overthrow the oligarchical party in Syracuse.

In 311 BC Agathocles was besieged and defeated in Syracuse in the battle of Himera.

Archimedes of Syracuse (; BC – BC ) was a Greek mathematician, physicist, engineer, inventor, and astronomer.

Archimedes, the renowned mathematician, was said to have used a burning glass ( or more likely a large number of angled hexagonal mirrors ) as a weapon in 212 BC, when Syracuse was besieged by Marcus Claudius Marcellus.

Following high school, he was majoring in communications and rhetorical studies at Syracuse University, before he dropped out of school.

Importantly, Syracuse was granted nominal independent ally status for the lifetime of Hiero II, and was not incorporated into the Roman province of Sicily until after it was sacked by Marcus Claudius Marcellus during the Second Punic War.

Archimedes ( 287-212 BC ), of Syracuse, Sicily, when it was a Greek city-state, is often considered to be the greatest of the Greek mathematicians, and occasionally even named as one of the three greatest of all time ( along with Isaac Newton and Carl Friedrich Gauss ).

In 1920, he became the stage manager for the Knickerbocker Players, a troupe that shuttled between Syracuse and Rochester, New York, and the following year he was hired as general manager of the newly formed Lyceum Players, an upstate summer stock company.

He was recruited to work on a variety of projects, including the S. I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University and the Sundrome terminal at Idlewild Airport in New York City, and dormitories at New College of Florida.

She was the founder of Syracuse Oratory School, and Baum advertised his services in her catalog to teach theatre, including stage business, playwriting, directing, and translating ( French, German, and Italian ), revision, and operettas, though he was not employed to do so.

In historical times, Megara was an early dependency of Corinth, in which capacity colonists from Megara founded Megara Hyblaea, a small polis north of Syracuse in Sicily.

He returned to New York, enrolling at Syracuse University, but he recalled in his 2006 memoir, Just One More Thing, that he was unsure what he wanted to do with his life for years after leaving high school.

In the 17th year of the war, word came to Athens that one of their distant allies in Sicily was under attack from Syracuse.

Syracuse, the principal city of Sicily, was not much smaller than Athens, and conquering all of Sicily would have brought Athens an immense amount of resources.

The delay was costly and forced the Athenians into a major sea battle in the Great Harbor of Syracuse.

** Syracuse: There was a harvest festival of Demeter and Persephone at Syracuse when the grain was ripe ( about May ).

The citizens of Syracuse at one point attempted to convince the Holy See to officially endorse the sainthood of the pope, but this was not successful.

In July 2004, at the Northeast Jurisdictional Conference of The United Methodist Church held in Syracuse, New York, he was elected and consecrated a Bishop of the Church.

Other colleges in the area include the University of London's School of Advanced Study, the Architectural Association School of Architecture in Bedford Square, and several London campuses of American colleges including the University of California London Centre, University of Delaware London Centre, Florida State University London Study Centre, Syracuse University London Facility, NYU London, and the London campus of the Hult International Business School.

The Syracuse Nationals were an American professional basketball team that existed in Syracuse, New York from 1946 to 1963 as part of the National Basketball League and National Basketball Association.

1946 / 47: Owned by Italian immigrant Danny Biasone, the Syracuse Nationals began play in the National Basketball League, in the same year professional basketball was finally gaining some legitimacy with the rival Basketball Association of America that was based in large cities like New York and Philadelphia.

In 1871, Hobart College disbanded the medical school and sold its library, anatomical specimens, and other tangible assets to Dean John Towler, who donated them to Syracuse University on condition that the trustees immediately establish an American Medical Association approved medical school.

Syracuse fielded two major league versions of the Stars: in the National League and the American Association.

Most notable are the Syracuse Nationals, a NBA team which played seventeen seasons in Syracuse ( 1947 – 1963 ) before moving to Philadelphia to become the Philadelphia 76ers, and two different Major League Baseball teams: the Syracuse Stars of the National League in 1879, which didn't finish their first season, and the Syracuse Stars of the American Association in 1890.

* 1878: Syracuse Stars: International Association ( AAA Baseball ) Pennant

It was also the home of the Syracuse Pros football team, who were possible members of the American Professional Football Association ( later renamed the National Football league ), in 1921.

As a result, instead of moving with the Royals to the Basketball Association of America ( BAA ) after the 1948 campaign, Cervi stayed in the NBL and joined the Syracuse Nationals, who met his salary demands and appointed him player-coach.

Gait, along with his twin brother Gary Gait, had outstanding playing careers at Syracuse University, in the National Lacrosse League, Major League Lacrosse, the Western Lacrosse Association, and at the international level for the Canadian National Team.

The archives and china collections of Syracuse China were donated to the Onondaga Historical Association after the society began working with the new owner, Libbey Inc. to secure the company's revered collection of historical china.

At one point, the Professional Football Researchers Association recognized a team by the name of the Syracuse Pros as joining and leaving the league in 1921, but the league has not recognized the claim, and the PFRA has backed off its assertion in more recent years.

Clarence Algernon " Cupid " Childs ( August 14, 1867 – November 8, 1912 ) was an American second baseman in Major League Baseball with a 13-season career from 1888, 1890 – 1901, playing for the Philadelphia Quakers, Cleveland Spiders, St. Louis Perfectos and Chicago Orphans of the National League and the Syracuse Stars of the American Association.

Syracuse, N. Y.: Onondaga Historical Association.

His sportscasting career started while attending Syracuse University, as an announcer for the Syracuse Blazers minor-league hockey team playing in the Eastern Hockey League and North American Hockey League.

* John Mitchell ( ice hockey b. 1986 ), American ice hockey player with the Syracuse Crunch

* 28 December — the first indoor professional American football game is played in New York City at Madison Square Garden between Philadelphia Phillies and Syracuse Athletic Club ; in all, four games take place in the World Series of Pro Football, an early attempt to establish a national professional championship.

Solo exhibitions featuring Juan Downey ’ s work include Juan Downey: Audio-Kinetic Electronic Sculptures, The Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington DC ; With Energy Beyond These Walls, Howard Wise Gallery, New York, NY, ( 1970 ); Video Trans Americas, Contemporary Art Museum, Houston, TX, ( 1976 ); Juan Downey: Video Trans Americas, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, ( 1976 ); Video Trans Americas, Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY ( 1977 ); Juan Downey: New American Filmmaker Series, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY ( 1978 ); Juan Downey, Matrix / Berkeley 16, University Art Museum, Berkeley, CA ( 1978 ); Une Forêt ' Videoformes ': Retrospective Juan Downey, Festival de la Création Vidéo, Clermont-Ferrand, France ( 1993 ); Juan Downey: Instalaciones, Dibujos y Videos, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Santiago ( 1995 ), Chile ; Juan Downey: Con energía más allá de estos muros, Institut Valencià d ' Art Modern, Centre del Carme, Valencia, Spain ( 1997 – 98 ); Retrospectiva de Video Arte de Juan Downey, Museo de Arte Moderno de Chiloé, Castro, Chiloé, Chile ( 2000 ); Plateau of Humankind, Honorable Mention: “ Excellence in Art Science and Technology ,” 49th Venice Biennale Chilean Pavilion, Venice, Italy ( 2001 ); and Juan Downey: El ojo pensante, Sala de Arte Fundación Telefónica, Santiago, Chile ( 2010 ); Juan Downey: The Invisible Architect, MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA, Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe, AZ, The Bronx Museum of the Arts, NY ( 2011-2012 ).

On December 16, 1951 a Miami Airlines Curtiss C-46F-1-CU Commando bound for Tampa, FL lost a cylinder on takeoff from runway 28 and crashed in Elizabeth killing 56, on January 22, 1952 an American Airlines Convair CV-240-0 arriving from Syracuse, NY crashed in Elizabeth while on approach to runway 6 killing all 23 passengers and crew as well as seven on the ground, and on February 11, 1952 a National DC-6 bound for Miami crashed in Elizabeth after takeoff from runway 24 killing 29 of 63 on board and four persons on the ground.

The first scheduled airline flights were American Airlines in late 1949 ; they had one weekday morning flight La Guardia to HPN to Syracuse and beyond, returning in the evening.

By the evening of 10 July the seven Allied assault divisions, three British, three American and one Canadian, were well established ashore and the port of Syracuse had been captured.

Further left, in the XXX Corps sector, 51st Division had moved directly north to take Palazzolo and Vizzini ( west of Syracuse ), while the Canadians, having secured the deserted Pachino airfield, headed northwest to make contact with the American right wing at Ragusa having driven off the Italian 122 Infantry Regiment north of Pachino.

It consisted of the American Seventh Army, commanded by Lieutenant General George S. Patton, which would land in the west between Licata and Scoglitti, and the veteran British Eighth Army, commanded by the experienced General Bernard Law Montgomery, which would land in the south east between Cape Passero and Syracuse.

The Franklin Automobile Company was an American manufacturer of automobiles in the United States between 1902 and 1934 in Syracuse, New York.

1676: The End of American Independence ( Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1995 ).

Walter Francis Sweeney ( born April 18, 1941 in Cohasset, Massachusetts ) is a former American football offensive lineman, who played college football at Syracuse University, where he made the school's all-century team.

Floyd Douglas Little ( born July 4, 1942 ) is a Pro Football Hall of Fame running back, and was a three-time American football All-American running back at Syracuse University.

She attended Syracuse University on a drama scholarship but did not graduate, and moved to New York City to study at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts.

* Samuel, Lawrence R. The American Dream: A Cultural History ( Syracuse University Press ; 2012 ) 241 pages ; identifies six distinct eras since the phrase was coined in 1931.

* George Adams ( baseball ), American baseball player for the 1879 Syracuse Stars

A biography of Berg, Something on My Own: Gertrude Berg and American Broadcasting, 1929 – 1956, by Glenn D. Smith, Jr. ( Syracuse University Press ) appeared in 2007.