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Biography

Name: Xerxes
Nationality: Persian
Gender: Male
Occupations: king

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Biography of Xerxes
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Xerxes (reigned 486-465 BC), a king of Persia, made an unsuccessful effort to conquer Greece in 480-479, suffering a major naval defeat at the Battle of Salamis. Xerxes was the son of Darius I and Atossa, daughter of Cyrus I. When Xerxes succeeded his...


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XERXES is the primary computer system of the starship Von Braun in the computer game System Shock...


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Greek filmgoers ignore critics of `300'
3/26/2007: 592 words, approx. 2 pages
Greece's critics hated "300," but moviegoers here are lining up to watch the gory recreation of the Battle of Thermopylae in record numbers _ happy to lap up the Hollywood thrills and take an indulgent view of what detractors call a butchery of their ancient...
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The New York Observer
For Lucky Opera Lovers, A Vibrant Munich Festival
8/13/2006: 1,107 words, approx. 4 pages
When the great German bass Kurt Moll came out for his curtain call after the second act of Die Meistersinger at the Bavarian State Opera in Munich a few evenings ago, the audience gave him a hero’s ovation. Mr. Moll had appeared only fleetingly as...
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The New York Observer
For Lucky Opera Lovers, A Vibrant Munich Festival
8/13/2006: 1,108 words, approx. 4 pages
When the great German bass Kurt Moll came out for his curtain call after the second act of Die Meistersinger at the Bavarian State Opera in Munich a few evenings ago, the audience gave him a hero’s ovation. Mr. Moll had appeared only fleetingly as...
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The New York Observer
300 Spartans; 117 Minutes; 2007; 17 Year-Old Viewers: $127 Million
3/25/2007: 1,508 words, approx. 5 pages
Zack Snyder’s 300, from a screenplay by Mr. Snyder, Kurt Johnstad and Michael B. Gordon, based on the graphic novel by Frank Miller and Lynn Varley, set a first-week box-office record for 2007—which is one of the two reasons I ventured to see it at...
 


 

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