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Preston's Cambyses, King of Persia.(Thomas Preston)(Critical essay)
; ...Pleasant Mirth containing the life of Cambyses, King of Persia, & c. by Thomas Preston...early text. Even so, that Shakespeare has Cambyses specifically in mind is far from certain...also a reference to the fourteeners of Cambyses, where each line contains a caesura after...
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 "Sunday Mercury (Birmingham, England)")
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LIVING: BOOKS: BOOK ENDS: DEEDS OF DARING IN THE DESERT; PAUL SUSSMAN The Lost Army Of Cambyses (Bantam, pounds 6.99).(Features)
; Byline: PAUL COLE ARCHAEOLOGIST Sussman's first novel doubtless reflects the way he'd like to see himself. It's a Boy's Own-style tale of derring-do in the desert wastes. In true Indiana Jones tradition, a fragment of stone bearing mysterious hieroglyphs holds the key to the location of a tomb
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Judges on trial ; The mounting allegations of corruption against judges across the country stress the need for an institutional mechanism to ensure judicial accountability.
; King Cambyses of Persia, who once after discovering that a judge took a bribe, had him executed, his skin stripped and stretched on the judgement...
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 "The Daily Mail (London, England)")
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This history really is bunk.(Review)
; ...Ends Of The Earth: The Lost Army Of King Cambyses (C4); Kings And Queens: Henry II (C5...not this time: The Lost Army Of King Cambyses was very close to being good old-fashioned...the remains of the army of Persian King Cambyses, who apparently sent an expedition into...
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Ten grand gestures from Drumbo Park
; WHERE did that hare go? That's what Droopys Cambyses might be thinking as he has a good look around after winning the top race on Children In Need night at Drumbo Park. The fawn dog...
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Ancient & modern
; ...following the career of the Persian king Cambyses (died 522 BC). After attacking Egypt...weighty conclusion from this behaviour: Cambyses was nuts. His reasoning goes as follows...concludes, is `king of all' - and therefore Cambyses was off his rocker. Only a card-carrying...
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Using DNA to unravel a 2,500-year Persian riddle.(World)
; ...was dispatched by the mad Persian King Cambyses II, the son of Cyrus the Great, to sack...5th-century BC Greek historian who portrayed Cambyses as mad, bad, and dangerous. Several attempts...the Saharan sands. I think we will find Cambyses' army, he says. After sacking the Temple...
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 "The Mirror (London, England)")
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Whoops! Some more spectacular losses ..(News)
; BARINGS, London's oldest Merchant bank, collapsed after trader Nick Leeson, right, lost pounds 827 million in 1995. CAMBYSES, king of Babylon, sent an army of 50,000 to threaten the Oracle of Amun but lost them in a desert sandstorm in the 5th century...
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Compelling tale of adventure
; ...series following on from Warlock. After a long, hard and daunting journey over many years, Magus Taita and his friend Meren Cambyses come across the Temple of Knowledge where Taita receives an "Inner Eye'' that gives him the power to know when others are telling...
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Shakespeare's Henry V.(Critical Essay)
; ...sack to make my eyes look red, that it might be thought I have wept; for I must speak in passion, and I will do it in King Cambyses' Vein. (1 Henry IV 2.4.371-74) Of course, Falstaff has already asked for a cup of sack three times in this scene alone! Much...
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