Edmonds, Sara Emma Evelyn
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Edmonds, Sara Emma Evelyn (1841–98) soldier, nurse, and spy for the Union army, born in New Brunswick, Canada. Edmonds joined the army under the name of Franklin Thompson, successfully hiding her true sex from most of her comrades. Edmonds/Thompson participated in the battle of
First Bull Run (1861) and the
Peninsular Campaign (1862). She made several information-gathering trips behind Confederate lines, posing variously as a slave woman, a young Confederate boy, and an Irish peddler woman. Edmonds deserted in 1863 (but eventually had Thompson's name cleared) and lived again as a woman. In the last year of the war, she nursed the wounded at
Harpers Ferry.
Emma Edmonds Seeyle (her married name) is the only woman ever acknowledged as a member of the
Grand Army of the Republic. She also received a pension for her war service.
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Achaemenid History, vol. VIII: Continuity and Change; Proceedings of the Last Achaemenid History Workshop, April 6-8, 1990--Ann Arbor, Michigan.(Review)
Magazine article from: The Journal of the American Oriental Society; 1/1/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...view the role and lasting impact of the Achaemenids more on their own terms in their own...our Eurocentric attitude toward the Achaemenids and ancient Iran in general is one of...most important continuity linking the Achaemenids with the modern Iranian world: the...
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 "The Economist (US)")
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Cyrus the Disputed; Iran's heritage.(a row over an exhibition about ancient Persia)
Magazine article from: The Economist (US); 9/17/2005; 700+ words
; ...End of story? Not in the home of the Achaemenids. Iran's debate about distant ancestors...on. Admired by the last shah, the Achaemenids (Cyrus and Darius among them) have...purportedly scholarly book which claims the Achaemenids had no civilisation to speak of. Muhammad...
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Zoroastrianism: Its Antiquity and Constant Vigour.
Magazine article from: The Journal of the American Oriental Society; 7/1/1994; ; 700+ words
; ...Zoroastrian religion long before the Achaemenids ever came to power. Her evidence includes...which I regard as baseless) that the Achaemenids from the time of Cyrus the Great were...placing Zoroaster any time close to the Achaemenids. Even if the "258 years before Alexander...
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Persia and the Bible.
Magazine article from: The Journal of the American Oriental Society; 7/1/1994; ; 700+ words
; ...with the history of the Medes and the Achaemenids (from Cyrus to Artaxerxes I), the...reconstruction of the history of the early Achaemenids, including discussions of the Biblical...detail the rest of the chapters on the Achaemenids and the capitals. Yamauchi surveys...
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 "Iran Times International (Washington, DC)")
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Persepolis quarry damaged.(Culture: From then to now)
Newspaper article from: Iran Times International (Washington, DC); 8/14/2009; 566 words
; ...containing interesting traces of the Achaemenids' mining extraction has now been damaged...According to archaeological studies, the Achaemenids used two kinds of stones to build Persepolis...their top quality constructions, the Achaemenids preferred to use stone from Gondashlu...
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The Persians.(Book review)
Magazine article from: The Historian; 9/22/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...through history strictly in tune to changes in ruling dynasty: Achaemenids; Alexander, Seleucids, and Parthians; Sasanians; "Non...forty-four pages, and the five centuries separating the Achaemenids from the Sasanians fill only twenty pages. In most instances...
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The Priest and the Great King: Temple-Palace Relations in the Persian Empire
Magazine article from: The Catholic Biblical Quarterly; 1/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...system of governing associated with Nabonidus, and later the Achaemenids, affected local authority. First, F. reconstructs the...the temple priests while allowing them wide autonomy. The Achaemenids, F. explains, manipulated Egyptian mythology to assume...
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Yahwism after the Exile: Perspectives on Israelite Religion in the Persian Era: Papers Read at the First Meeting of the European Association for Biblical Studies, Utrecht, 6-9 August 2000
Magazine article from: Journal of Biblical Literature; 7/1/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...institutional changes that took place in Yehud under the Achaemenids. David Vanderhooft ("New Evidence Pertaining to the Transition...was possible very early to obtain official roles under the Achaemenids. In addition, Vanderhooft argues that the Persians invented...
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Artaxerxes, Ardasir, and Bahman. (ancient Persian King Artaxerxes II; founder of ancient Sasanian Empire; Kayanid King; three figures who influenced the development of the Zoroastrianism religion in Iran)
Magazine article from: The Journal of the American Oriental Society; 4/1/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...took the Middle Persian form of Ardasir.(1) Of the three Achaemenids, Artaxerxes II (404-358 B.C.E.) ruled the longest...Inasmuch as her insistence on the Zoroastrianism of the Achaemenids is not universally accepted, the religious policy of Artaxerxes...
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Persepolis: Glanzende Haupstadt der Perserreichs.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: The Journal of the American Oriental Society; 10/1/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...chapters. Chapter 1 presents a historical introduction to the Achaemenids, Persepolis during Achaemenid and Sasanian times, history...Persepolis, and the religion of the Persians--both of the Achaemenids of the sixth to fourth centuries B.C. and of the Sasanians...
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Achaemenids
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Achaemenids , dynasty of ancient Persia. They were descended presumably from one...established the Persian rule by his conquest of Astyages of Media . The Achaemenids (c.550-330 BC) were important for their development of government...
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Persia
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...strength of the early Persians. The Achaemenids By the 6th cent. BC the early Persians...one Achaemenes, or Hakhamanesh (see Achaemenids , were associated with the Medes, who...endure long under his successors, the Achaemenids. From the beginning the Persians built...
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Zoroastrianism
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...government in the first period of Zoroastrianism, that under the Achaemenids , when it was for a time the state religion. Alexander's conquest of Persia and the collapse of the Achaemenids destroyed the privileged position of Zoroastrianism. Little...
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Persian art and architecture
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...those from other provinces of the Persian Empire, the Achaemenids evolved a monumental style in which relief sculpture...throughout Iran, often using the same sites that the Achaemenids had covered with reliefs and inscript
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Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...faience and ivory (c.3000 BC) at the archaeological sites of the Indus valley civilization . Long after, in Persia, the Achaemenids revived cuneiform writing in an altered form; their chief monument is the Behistun Inscriptions (c.500 BC) of Darius...
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