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The power of Purim: Small actions can yield monumental outcomes | Opinion

The Leader 03 Mar 2023

At the time, the Jewish people were living as commoners under King Achashverosh, believed by many historians to be Xerxes the Great, following their predecessors’ violent displacement from ancient Israel just 80 years earlier ... up and compelled to vie for the King’s affection.

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Purim’s meaning still echoes today

LI Herald 02 Mar 2023

The king of the empire, Xerxes I, known by the Hebrew name Ahasuerus in the biblical story, needed a new queen ... Once Xerxes realized that his own wife would perish if Haman’s wishes were carried out, he issued a decree that would save the entire Jewish population.

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Top 10 Gerard Butler Movies

The Greeneville Sun 16 Jan 2023

The new action thriller “Plane” reminds us of actor Gerard Butler, whose films range from rom-coms to voice-over animation. But it is his action movies we like best ... 10 ... 9 ... 8 ... 7 ... President (Morgan Freeman) against a drone attack. 6 ... 5 ... 4 ... 3 ... 2 ... 1. “300” (2006) – The King of Sparta (Butler) leads 300 warriors against the overwhelming odds of King Xerxes’ army.

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King Xerxes & Haman - Public Edict Against the Jews (from Greek version of 'Book ...

Bitchute 02 Jan 2023

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Eight Historic Lies about the Ancient World that will Blow Your Mind

Ancient Origins 22 Dec 2022

Our understanding of the past is fluid. Very often things we think we know about the past turn out to be false or highly distorted ... Historic Lie #1 ... This is a weird one ... It has been erroneously stated that three hundred Spartans held the Thermopylae pass against a vast Persian army led by King Xerxes during the Persian invasion of Greece in 480 BC ... VOA.

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Two sides to the moon

The Telegraph India 12 Nov 2022

The excitement surrounding the blood moon or total lunar eclipse was quite something ... When Alexander the Great’s army was shaken at the sight of lunar eclipse, the king got Egyptian astrologers to declare that it was a good omen ... When the bridge over Hellespont was completed by the Persian King Xerxes there was a solar eclipse ... Scarface ... .

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Traitors of Ancient Greece

Greek City Times 24 Oct 2022

The "subhuman" who equated his name with treason not only in Greece, but all over the world, was Malieus Ephialtes, son of Eurydis, one of the greatest traitors in history as he showed Persian King Xerxes the narrow path from the Kallidromos that led Thermopylae ... He ended up leaking military secrets to Xerxes.

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Films my father loves: Spartans, emails and overthinking with Zack Snyder’s ‘300’

Stanford Daily 13 Oct 2022

King Leonidas of Sparta is informed of the incoming Persian army of Xerxes, whose hundreds of thousands of men have laid waste to everyone in their way ... The king is then forced to bring only 300 men with him as his “personal bodyguards” as he walks towards a battle he has no chance of winning ... The men of “300” are great men ... He is named after a king ... .

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The Aftermath Of The Achaemenid Empire

Ancient Origins 07 Oct 2022

... subject peoples, ready to tolerate and even to absorb foreign ideas .” At the foot of Kuh-e Rahmat, Mountain of Mercy, on the Marvdasht plain, King Darius the Great, and his successors Xerxes and Artaxerxes, built one of the most spectacular cities in the world – Persepolis.

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On September 22, 480 BC Greece wins the Battle of Salamis

Greek City Times 22 Sep 2022

Battle of Salamis was one of the final battles in the second war between the Persian Empire led by King Xerxes and an alliance of Greek city-states ... By 480 the Persian King Xerxes and his army had overrun much of Greece, and his navy of about 800 galleys bottled up the smaller Greek fleet of about 370 triremes in the Saronic Gulf.

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Arch-villain Haman caught in own trap

Odessa American 27 Aug 2022

It’s a big part of the story of Mordecai, Haman and Queen Esther in which Mordecai refuses to bow down to Haman, a high official in the vast Persian kingdom of Xerxes, and Haman persuades the king to kill every Jew in the land ... and begging the king not to carry out Haman’s plot.

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The Battle Of Thermopylae

Greek City Times 20 Aug 2022

During two full days of battle, the small force led by King Leonidas of Sparta blocked the only road through which the massive army of Xerxes I of Persia could pass ... 480 BC, Battle of Artemisium, Battle of Thermopylae, courage, Europe, Greco-Persian War, greece, history, King ...

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Endorsed by Donald Trump

Messenger-Inquirer 20 Aug 2022

King Leonidas (Gerard Butler) and 300 Spartans defend a narrow mountain pass against the Persian “God-King” Xerxes and his 300,000 soldiers ... Xerxes offers Leonidas wealth and power in exchange for his submission. Leonidas declines and makes fun of Xerxes’ warriors. Enraged, Xerxes orders his elite guard, the Immortals, to attack.

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You are your name

The Ada News 12 Jul 2022

“A name pronounced is the recognition of the individual to whom it belongs. He who can pronounce my name aright, he can call me, and is entitled to my love and service.” — Henry David Thoreau ... I wonder ... Well, it’s a thought ... A unique name from ancient history is Xerxes, a king of the old Persian/Achaemenid Empire, who attempted to conquer Greece ... .

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COLUMN: You are your name

Enid News & Eagle 09 Jul 2022

”A name pronounced is the recognition of the individual to whom it belongs. He who can pronounce my name aright, he can call me, and is entitled to my love and service.” — Henry David Thoreau ... I wonder ... Well, it’s a thought ... A unique name from ancient history is Xerxes, a king of the old Persian/Achaemenid Empire, who attempted to conquer Greece ... .