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Alexander and chronicle
Callisthenes has been accompanying Alexander to write a chronicle of the campaign.
In the late 13th century, a chronicle was compiled called the Life of Alexander Nevsky ( Житие Александра Невского ), in which he is depicted as an ideal prince-soldier and defender of Russia.
The chronicle describes a version similar to that offered centuries later by Leonti Mroveli, but the period of Jewish migration into Georgia is ascribed to Alexander the Great:
Another Georgian chronicle Kartlis Tskhovreba (“ History of Kartli ”) claims Azo to be an officer of Alexander ’ s, who massacred a local ruling family and conquered the area, until being defeated at the end of the 4th century BC by Prince Pharnavaz, who was at that time a local chief.
* A Description of Sarmatian Europe, a chronicle by Alexander Guagnini first published in 1578
According to the chronicle, on receiving the news of the advancing Swedish fleet, the 20-year-old Prince Alexander Yaroslavich of Novgorod quickly moved his small army to face the enemy before they had reached Lake Ladoga.
It is enough to notice a chronicle of Arezzo in terza rima by Gorello de Sinigardi, and the history, also in terza rima, of the journey of Pope Alexander III to Venice, by Pier de Natali.

Alexander and mentioned
Alexander is apparently mentioned in the Edicts of Ashoka, as one of the recipients of the Indian Emperor Ashoka's Buddhist proselytism, although no Western historical record of this event remains.
The most valuable evidence, if relevant, are the treaties and letters mentioned in Hittite cuneiform texts of the same approximate era, which mention an unruly Western Anatolian warlord named Piyama-Radu ( possibly Priam ) and his successor Alaksandu ( possibly Alexander, the nickname of Paris ) both based in Wilusa ( possibly Ilion / Ilios ), as well as the god Apaliunas ( possibly Apollo ).
For his service there, and in particular for his actions in the Loe-Agra operations against the Pathans in Malakand between February and April 1935, Alexander was that year made a Companion of the Order of the Star of India and was mentioned in despatches.
In recognition of his services in the field from March to June 1940, Alexander was again mentioned in despatches.
By July 1942, the British and Indian forces in Burma had completed their fighting retreat back into India, and Alexander, having yet again been mentioned in despatches for his Burma service, was recalled to the United Kingdom.
Ibn Battuta also reported " the rampart of Yajuj and Majuj " was " sixty days ' travel " from the city of Zeitun ( Quanzhou ); Hamilton Alexander Rosskeen Gibb notes that Ibn Battuta believed that Great Wall of China was built by Dhul-Qarnayn to contain Gog and Magog as mentioned in the Quran.
The Mykians of the other side of ancient Maka, the present day region of Balochistan and Sindh had later taken independence because they are not mentioned in the book written by Arrian of Nicomedia about campaigns of Alexander the great but he only mentions the Oman side of Maka which he calls " Maketa ".
In an opinion shared in some form or another by Harold Bloom, and Peter Alexander, early scholar Andrew Cairncross, stated that " It may be assumed, until a new case can be shown to the contrary, that Shakespeare's Hamlet and no other is the play mentioned by Nashe in 1589 and Henslowe in 1594.
* Alexander III is mentioned in Umberto Eco's book Baudolino.
The town was first mentioned in 1408 when Prince Alexander the Good of Moldavia ( 1400 – 1432 ) listed the customs points in the principality in his privilege for Polish merchants.
In Cleopatra's Moon, by Vicky Alvear Shecter, Alexander Helios is also mentioned, along with Ptolemy Philadelphos and Cleopatra Selene, the main character of the book.
She is mentioned in the beginning of A S Byatt's novel The Virgin in the Garden where, the Poet-Playwright character Alexander Wedderburn likens Lady Antonia Fraser to Belphoebe and the heroine of the Quartet ,( consisting of the novelsThe Virgin in the Garden, Still Life, Babel Tower & A Whistling Woman ), Frederica Potter to " Britomart ".
The tomb was mentioned again when Alexander the Great arrived at Elaeus on his campaign against the Persian Empire.
Seleucus is mentioned three times in ancient sources before the death of Alexander.
Several are mentioned by name, including beetles called Small, Alexander Beetle and Henry Rush, and three unspecified creatures called Smallest-of-All, Late, and Early.
Erythrae was the birthplace of two prophetesses ( sibyls ) -- one of whom, Sibylla, is mentioned by Strabo as living in the early period of the city ; the other, Athenais, lived in the time of Alexander the Great.
After this high point, Quintilian ’ s influence seems to have lessened somewhat, although he is mentioned by the English poet Alexander Pope in his versified “ An Essay on Criticism ”:
The burgh is mentioned in an indenture of 1292, and the fact that the sheriffdom was in existence at the time of the Largs campaign of 1263 suggests that the burgh may also have been recognised as such during the reign of Alexander III.
" Ho was even briefly mentioned when Alexander Fleming was considered for Person of the Century in 1999, since Fleming could be portrayed as representative of other disease-fighting scientists including Ho, but the title ultimately went to Albert Einstein.
The public terms of Tilsit mentioned the warm feelings between Napoleon and Alexander I of Russia, but the secret terms addressed more substantial issues: France permitted Russia to do as it wished with the Ottoman Empire in return for France gaining the Dalmatian coast and the Ionian Islands ; Russia gained a free hand in Finland ; and Alexander also agreed to join the Continental System if the war with Britain did not end soon.
* The Sir Thomas Browne Page at the University of Chicago, a comprehensive site with the complete works — all the works mentioned above, plus the minor works ; Samuel Johnson's Life of Browne, Kenelm Digby's Observations on Religio Medici, and Alexander Ross's Medicus Medicatus ; and background material, such as many of Browne's ancient sources.
He is one of the few Bactrian kings mentioned by Greek authors, among them Apollodorus of Artemita, quoted by Strabo, who claims that the Greeks from Bactria were even greater conquerors than Alexander the Great, and that Menander was one of the two Bactrian kings, with Demetrius, who extended their power farthest into India:

Alexander and above
* Alexander, Judean Prince, son to the above Alexander and Cappadocian Princess Glaphyra
::: The second line above is an allusion to Alexander Pope's An Essay on Man ( 1734 ), which contains the line " Hope springs eternal in the human breast ".
There he enjoyed the society of such eminent men as Antoine-Léonard de Chézy ( his primary instructor ), Silvestre de Sacy, Louis Mathieu Langlès, and, above all, of Alexander Hamilton ( 1762 – 1824 ), cousin of the U. S. statesman, who had acquired, when in India, an acquaintance with Sanskrit, and had brought out, along with Langlès, a descriptive catalogue of the Sanskrit manuscripts of the Imperial library.
Alexander II made up his own mind to abolish serfdom from above rather than wait for it to be abolished from below through revolution.
He enjoyed some success there – notably with Lieutenant Kijé, Peter and the Wolf, Romeo and Juliet, and perhaps above all with Alexander Nevsky.
* June 20 – Compromise of 1790: Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and Alexander Hamilton come to an agreement: Madison agrees to not be " strenuous " in opposition for the assumption of state debts by the federal government ; Hamilton agrees to support the capital site being above the Potomac.
1960 ); Blok, Alexander: " The Puppet Show ", " The Light Wandered about in the Window ", " The Puppet Booth ", " In the Hour when the Narcissus Flowers Drink Hard ", " He Appeared at a Smart Ball ", " Double " ( 1902 – 1905 ; series related to Blok's play The Puppet Show under # Plays, playlets, pantomimes, and revues | Plays, playlets, pantomimes, and revues above ); Guro, Elena: " Boredom " and " Lunar ", from The Hurdy-Gurdy ( 1909 ); Kuzmin, Mikhail Alekseevich: " Where will I find words " ( 1906 ), " In sad and pale make-up " ( 1912 ).
As a tactician, Epaminondas stands above every other general in Greek history ( unless the Macedonian kings Philip II and Alexander the Great are included ), although modern historians have questioned his larger strategic vision.
Although very long spears had been used since the dawn of organized warfare ( notably illustrated in art showing Sumerian and Minoan warriors and hunters ), the earliest recorded use of a pike-like weapon in the tactical method described above involved the Macedonian sarissa, used by the troops of Alexander the Great's father, Philip II of Macedon, and successive dynasties, which dominated warfare for several centuries in many countries.
The highest point in Alexander County is Hickory Knob in the Brushies, it has an elevation of above sea level.
The term generic programming was originally coined by David Musser and Alexander Stepanov in a more specific sense than the above, to describe an approach to software decomposition whereby fundamental requirements on types are abstracted from across concrete examples of algorithms and data structures and formalised as concepts, analogously to the abstraction of algebraic theories in abstract algebra.
This scale became a sort of Russian calling-card — a leitmotif of magic and menace used not just by Rimsky-Korsakov but all of his followers, above all Alexander Scriabin, Maurice Ravel, Igor Stravinsky and Olivier Messiaen ( mode 2 ).
Time after time, when Alexander needed to divide his forces, he entrusted half to Hephaestion, knowing that in him he had a man of unquestionable loyalty, who understood and sympathised with his aims, and above all, who got the job done.
* June 20, 1790: Compromise of 1790: Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and Alexander Hamilton come to an agreement: Madison agrees to not be " strenuous " in opposition for the assumption of state debts by the federal government ; Hamilton agrees to support the capital site being above the Potomac River.
Newmyer ( 1985 ) presents Story as a " Statesman of the Old Republic " who tried to be above democratic politics and to shape the law in accordance with the republicanism of Story's heroes, Alexander Hamilton and John Marshall, as well as the New England Whigs of the 1820s and 1830s such as Daniel Webster.
Four of the bridges are fixed arch spans ( Henry Hudson, Alexander Hamilton, Washington, and High Bridges ) and are built at some of the highest points along the river, connecting the uplands while remaining high above the water.
( 1332 ) Alexander, Alaska is a small settlement on the west side of Susitna River above the mouth.
He was in fact denounced as a sexually ambiguous figure in his time most notably by William Pulteney, then leader of the Opposition and as cited above, by Alexander Pope in his " Sporus " portrait: " Let Sporus tremble / What that thing of silk ... His wit all seesaw between that and this / Now high, now low, now master up, now miss / And he himself one vile antitheseis ...".
* Alexander Nelson Hood, 4th Duke of Bronté, 1st Viscount Bridport ( 1814 – 1904 ) ( previously created Viscount Bridport ; see above )
* Alexander Militarev Semitic Language Tree with Soqotri modern classification ( above )
As the Italian chronicler Alexander Guagnini wrote: " There is also another, small Tanais, which originates in the Seversky Principality and flows into the big Tanais above Azov ".
In addition to the works above mentioned, Fellows published the following: The Xanthian Marbles ; their Acquisition and Transmission to England ( 1843 ), a refutation of false statements that had been published ; An Account of the Ionic Trophy Monument excavated at Xanthus ( 1848 ); a cheap edition of his two Journals, entitled Travels and Researches in Asia Minor, particularly in the Province of Lycia ( 1852 ); and Coins of Ancient Lycia before the Reign of Alexander ; with an Essay on the Relative Dates of the Lycian Monuments in the British Museum ( 1855 ).

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