Sebastián de Benalcázar
Sebastián de Benalcázar , c.1479-1551, Spanish conquistador. After accompanying Columbus on his third voyage (1498), Benalcázar served in Darién and Nicaragua before joining Francisco Pizarro in the conquest of Peru (1532). Setting out from Piura , he forestalled Pedro de Alvarado in support of Diego de Almagro , the elder, and entered (1533) the native stronghold of Quito, founded Guayaquil, and marched (1535) into SW Colombia in search of El Dorado . While in Colombia he founded Pasto and Cali. In 1539, he tried unsuccessfully to ally himself with Federmann against Jiménez de Quesada . Journeying to Spain with them to settle accounts, Benalcázar returned (1541) as governor of Popayán prov. Between 1541 and 1548 he aided Vaca de Castro against Diego de Almagro, the younger, and then helped Nuñez Vela and Pedro de la Gasca against Gonzalo Pizarro. For executing the leader of a neighboring province that he claimed as his, Benalcázar was tried (1550) and convicted. On his way to appeal to the Council of the Indies he died of fever in Cartagena.
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Achilles Group Raises Growth Equity Financing to Provide HR Services to Small Business.
PR Newswire; 1/9/2008; 700+ words
; ...business objectives. Houston-based Ephor Group and First Analysis of Chicago are co-funding the growth financing. Ephor Group, with a long track record of...domain expertise," said Garry Meier, Ephor Group founder and new Achilles Group...
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Another bastion falls as academy votes to end single-sex education
Newspaper article from: The Scotsman; 10/4/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...choose single-sex education if they wanted to. Geits and ephors who maintain the classical tradition THE Edinburgh Academy...from the old Scots word for a child, while prefects are ephors, after the officials of ancient Sparta.
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Diary:Champagne, but no socialists
Newspaper article from: The Scotsman; 5/25/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...primitive forerunner of Quidditch. The game is played by Ephors with Clachans in front of Geits. At one time played every break time, it is now limited to an annual match. PS: Ephors are prefects, Clachans are the special wooden bats and Geits...
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Time was invented by us but never stops playing with our minds.(history of millenarianism)
Magazine article from: National Catholic Reporter; 11/5/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...War: "In the 15th year [of a truce in the war], in the 48th year of the priesthood of Chrysis of Argos, when Enesias was ephor at Sparta and Pythodorus still had two months to serve as archon at Athens, six months after the battle of Potidea, just at...
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Style over substance.(Goodlife Tabloid)
Newspaper article from: The Mercury (South Africa); 4/6/2007; 700+ words
; ...Persian empire comes calling and utters submission , it's clear things aren't going to end well. Never mind that the creepy Ephors, pestilent elders who leer at half-naked female oracles, don' t want a war. The Spartans have their tough-guy reputations...
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Dove non arriva la legge. Dottrine della censura nella prima età moderna
Magazine article from: The Catholic Historical Review; 4/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...the unavoidable abuses of rulers, Althusius argues anyway for a censura regum, entrusted to the collective magistrate of the ephors. So a doctrine of censorship attains to the status of a system of constitutional limitation on royal power. The survey of...
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Honoring Veasey, O'Keeffe.(LIFE)(CHESS)
Newspaper article from: The Washington Times; 5/20/2006; 700+ words
; ...working there. His GMU chess club bulletin, written in his inimitable, hyperlinked style, was characteristically called "Ephor" combining an inside joke on ancient Greek history with a really bad chess pun. O'Keeffe was a fair tournament player in...
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FILM REVIEW: '300' a fanboy fantasy
News Wire article from: University Wire; 3/9/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...into an illegal war with the millions-strong Persian Empire. Illegal because the inbred, disgustingly foul mystics, or ephors, won't give their needed consent to the war after their drunk, prepubescent and mostly-naked Oracle Girl (Kelly Craig...
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'300' AND COUNTING: It's not just a movie. Western civilization really did hang in the balance.
Newspaper article from: Sunday Gazette-Mail; 3/25/2007; 700+ words
; ...theatrical) Thespian allies. Liberties include the weird scene with the oracles and a lot of Spartan political intrigue. The ephors weren't scary mutants but five Spartan magistrates. The Spartans were betrayed according to Herodotus by someone named Ephialtes...
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COLUMN: 'Special freakhood'
News Wire article from: University Wire; 3/15/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...unnecessary and over-eroticized scene. Leonidas' enemies, on the other hand, are a veritable gallery of freaks. The political Ephors are misogynistic leper-pigs; Ephialtes the traitor is a hunchbacked troll; the Persian army is an assortment of masked human...
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ephors
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
ephors [Gr.,=overseers], in ancient Greece...At its peak of authority the board of ephors was the organ of citizen control over the...authorized military commanders, but the ephors had full discretion in levying troops...
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ephor
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
ephor in ancient Greece, any of the five senior Spartan magistrates; the word comes from Greek ephoros ‘overseer’.
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Agis IV
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...Agis and his friend Lysander, one of the ephors, pushed his proposals through the assembly...these proposals because the newly elected ephors of 242 B.C. were in opposition (the five ephors were magistrates who exercised control over...
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Cleomenes III
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...and of the king's subordination to the ephors, or magistrates. Expansion Policies...Aratus made war inevitable in 229, the ephors authorized Cleomenes to defend the frontiers...When Cleomenes hired mercenaries, the ephors scented danger, and after Cleomenes defeated...
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Chilon
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Chilon , 6th cent. BC, one of the Seven Wise Men of Greece . He was a Spartan and brought greater strictness to Spartan training. As an ephor (c.556 BC) he strengthened the power of that position, and for the first time the ephors directed policy with the king.
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