Xerxes
Xerxes Ruler of
Persia from 486 to 465 BCE; called
Ahasuerus in Ezra 4: 6. His defeat by the Greeks at the naval battle of
Salamis in 480 BCE is described by the Greek historian Herodotus. There are problems about the biblical chronology, since the complaint against the returning Jews (Ezra 4: 6) must have been made just before 445 BCE. However, the problems may be easily solved by detaching 4: 6 from 4: 7, which belongs in the reign of a different ruler.
Ahasuerus ( Xerxes I) is the Persian ruler in the book of Esther, but this book is more in the nature of legend than history. In Dan. 9: 1 Ahasuerus is said to be the father of
Darius the Mede, though in fact he was the son of Darius the Great.
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Wake County, N.C., School Construction Bond-Backers Campaign for 'Yes' Votes.
Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News; 9/3/2003; 700+ words
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News Wire article from: Official College Sports Network; 2/25/2009; 700+ words
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News Wire article from: Official College Sports Network; 4/1/2009; 700+ words
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News Wire article from: Official College Sports Network; 2/21/2009; 700+ words
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News Wire article from: Official College Sports Network; 10/2/2008; 700+ words
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Magazine article from: Motorboating; 12/1/2005; ; 700+ words
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Newspaper article from: Daily News (Jacksonville, NC); 10/4/2005; 700+ words
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News Wire article from: Official College Sports Network; 11/8/2008; 700+ words
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News Wire article from: Official College Sports Network; 11/1/2008; 700+ words
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Wake
Encyclopedia entry from: Macmillan Encyclopedia of Death and Dying
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Wake, Defense of
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History
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wake
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English
...up feeling better | [ tr. ] I wake him gently. ∎ [ intr. ] ( wake up to ) become alert to or aware of: he needs to wake up to reality. ∎...to stir or come to life: it wakes desire in others. 2. [ tr...
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Wake Island
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
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Wake Island, capture of
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to World War II
Wake Island, capture of. Within hours of attacking...Pacific war , the Japanese started to bomb Wake, the most westerly US Pacific base, from...and nearly a thousand Japanese troops. Wake remained in Japanese hands for the rest of...
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