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3 days ago · Alexander the Great (356–323 BC) spent his short life undertaking an enormous military campaign. He defeated the Persian king Darius III and created an empire that stretched from Europe into Egypt, Western and Central Asia, and all the way to India. How the Mother, Wife, and Daughter of Darius III Became Family of Alexander the Great.
4 days ago · Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn [a] [b] (11 December 1918 – 3 August 2008) [6] [7] was a Russian writer and prominent Soviet dissident who helped to raise global awareness of political repression in the Soviet Union, especially the Gulag prison system. Solzhenitsyn was born into a family that defied the Soviet anti ...
- Александр Исаевич Солженицын
- Yermolai, Ignat, Stepan
3 days ago · Vegetation is scarce and consists of low, thorny shrubs. The hillsides along the pass are covered in thick brush, with some plants reaching 10 feet (3.0 m) high. With the sea on one side and steep, impassable hills on the other, King Leonidas and his men chose the perfect topographical position to battle the Persian invaders.
- 21–23 July, 20 August or 8–10 September 480 BC
- Persian victory
16 hours ago · Which is one answer as to why the UK’s Olly Alexander scored so poorly on Saturday night. Britain has a structural disadvantage because it has been a dominant force in pop culture terms for so ...
12 hours ago · They host bottom side Darmstadt 98 in their last league game next weekend. ... At the other end of the table, Mainz’s victory leaves Union Berlin, who squandered a 2-0 lead at Cologne earlier in ...
3 days ago · One of the best relationships in the Star Wars sequel trilogy was the unpredictable relationship between Kylo Ren/Ben Solo and Rey.The push-and-pull dynamic between them, where both kept trying to convince the other to join their side, provided an interesting way of looking at the Force, how people commune with it, and the true power of the dark side.
3 days ago · Alexander Geppert is Associate Professor of History and European Studies, and Global Network Associate Professor at New York University, with a joint appointment at NYU New York and NYU Shanghai. From 2010 to 2016 he directed the Emmy Noether research group ‘The Future in the Stars: European Astroculture and Extraterrestrial Life in the ...
