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uses, see Alexander (disambiguation). Alexander III of Macedon (20/21 July 356 BC – 11 June 323 BC), commonly known as Alexander the Great, was a Macedonian...

Alexander Pope (21 May 1688 – 30 May 1744) was a poet and satirist of the Augustan period and one of its greatest artistic exponents. Considered the foremost...

to abandon the rocky land of Persia Proper for a better region in the empire. As quoted by Herodotus, in the final section of The Histories; cited in [1]...

Alexander Hamilton (11 January 1755 or 1757 – 12 July 1804) was a Founding Father of the United States, chief staff aide to General George Washington,...

history is at once something more and something less than the aggregate of the national histories to which we are accustomed, that it must be approached...

Alexander Vasilyevich Suvorov (transliterated as Aleksandr, Aleksander and Suvarov), Count Suvorov of Rymnik, Prince of Italy (граф Рымникский, князь...

The Indian campaign of Alexander the Great began in 327 BC and lasted until 325 BC. After conquering the Achaemenid Persian Empire, the Macedonian army...

Alexander Berkman (November 21, 1870 – June 28, 1936) was a prominent Lithuanian Jewish anarchist, and a close associate of Emma Goldman. His adult life...

Alexander Mackenzie, PC (January 28, 1822 – April 17, 1892), was a building contractor and newspaper editor, and was the second Prime Minister of Canada...

Greatness or preeminence are terms used to emphasize the perceived superiority of a person or thing. In Europe the most lauded rulers were given the attribute...

The history of art is the history of any activity or product made by humans in a visual form for aesthetical or communicative purposes, expressing ideas...

Anne of Great Britain (6 February 1665 – 1 August 1714) became Queen of England, Scotland and Ireland on 8 March 1702. On 1 May 1707, under the Acts of Union...

Alexander Maclaren (11 February 1826 – 5 May 1910) was an English non-conformist minister. Let me always remember that it is not the amount of religious...

Alexander Grothendieck (28 March 1928 – 13 November 2014) was a German-born French mathematician who became the leading figure in the creation of modern...

derogate aught from the honour due to any religion or its votaries. As translated in The Ante-Nicene Fathers (1886) edited by Alexander Roberts and James...

Alexander Calder (August 22, 1898 – November 11, 1976) was an American sculptor known as the originator of the mobile, a type of Kinetic art made with...

example, which are the histories of Greek culture that mention the names of Theaetetus and of Eudoxus, two of the greatest mathematicians of all times? Who...

Alexander Mikhaylovich Ovechkin (born September 17, 1985, in Moscow, Russia) is a Russian professional ice hockey left winger for the Washington Capitals...

Michelle Alexander (October 7, 1967) is a writer, civil rights advocate, and visiting professor at Union Theological Seminary. I think it is precisely the existence...

Alexander VI [also Alexander Sextus] (born Roderic Llançol i de Borja; 1 January 1431 – 18 August 1503) was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the...