Frank Lee Holt is an American archaeologist and author focusing on Central Asia. He is an Associate Professor of History at the University of Houston, and is recognized as one of the leading authorities on Alexander the Great, Hellenistic Asia, and numismatics. [1] [2] Holt received his PhD in History from the University of Virginia.
Holt has written five books and almost fifty articles, [3] primarily concerning Alexander the Great and the Hellenization of Afghanistan.
Porus or Poros, was an ancient Indian king, whose territory spanned the region between the Hydaspes and Acesines, in the Punjab region of the Indian subcontinent. He is only mentioned in Greek sources.
Lawrence Hill is a Canadian novelist, essayist and memoirist. He is known for his 2007 novel The Book of Negroes, inspired by the Black Loyalists given freedom and resettled in Nova Scotia by the British after the American Revolutionary War, and his 2001 memoir Black Berry, Sweet Juice: On Being Black and White in Canada. The Book of Negroes was adapted for a TV mini-series produced in 2015. He was selected in 2013 for the Massey Lectures: he drew from his non-fiction book Blood: The Stuff of Life, published that year. His ten books include other non-fiction and fictional works, and some have been translated into other languages and published in numerous other countries.
The Cleveland Metroparks Zoo aka Cleveland Zoological Park is a 183-acre (74 ha) zoo in Cleveland, Ohio. The Zoo is divided into several areas: Australian Adventure; African Savanna; Northern Wilderness Trek, The Primate, Cat & Aquatics Building, Waterfowl Lake, The RainForest, and the newly added Asian Highlands. Cleveland Metroparks Zoo has one of the largest collections of primates in North America, The Zoo is a part of the Cleveland Metroparks system.
Ball High School is a public secondary school in Galveston, Texas, United States. Ball, which covers grades 9 through 12, is a part of Galveston Independent School District.
Houston Baptist University (HBU) is a private Baptist university in Sharpstown, Houston, Texas. The university was founded in 1960. Its Cultural Arts Center houses three museums: the Dunham Bible Museum, the Museum of American Architecture and Decorative Arts, and the Museum of Southern History.
Downtown Cleveland is the central business district of Cleveland, Ohio. The economic and symbolic center of the city and the Cleveland-Akron-Canton, OH Combined Statistical Area, it is Cleveland's oldest district, with its Public Square laid out by city founder General Moses Cleaveland in 1796. Downtown's diverse architecture includes the Cleveland Mall, one of the most complete examples of City Beautiful design in the United States.
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Abulites was the Achaemenid satrap (governor) of Susiana during the reign of Darius III, and retained the satrapy as a Hellenistic satrap under Alexander the Great until circa 324 BC, when he was executed for sedition.
South Asian Football Federation (SAFF), founded in 1997, is an association of the football playing nations in South Asia and is part of the larger Asian Football Confederation. The current members are Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka.
Adrian McKinty is a Northern Irish writer of crime and mystery novels and young adult fiction, best known for his 2020 award-winning thriller, The Chain, and the Sean Duffy novels set in Northern Ireland during The Troubles. He is a winner of the Edgar Award, the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award, the Macavity Award, the Ned Kelly Award, the Barry Award, the Audie Award, the Anthony Award and the International Thriller Writers Award. He has been shortlisted for the CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger and the Grand Prix de Littérature Policière.
Mariyah Moten is a Pakistani American beauty pageant runner up 4 of Miss Pakistan World 2006.
Xenophilus was a Macedonian military figure under Alexander the Great.
Dorothy "Dottie" Alexander is the former keyboardist for of Montreal, an American indie pop band formed in Athens, Georgia and fronted by Kevin Barnes.
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Laurel O'Donnell is an American author of romance novels.
Carol Buckley is an American elephant caregiver, specializing in the trauma recovery and on-going physical care of captive elephants.
Mir Zakah is a village in the Mirzaka District of Paktia Province in eastern Afghanistan, where "one of the largest ancient coin deposits ever attested in the history of mankind" was discovered in 1947 at the bottom of a well and extensively plundered in later years. The village lies on the old caravan route from Ghazni to Gandhara. The controversial Alexander Medaillon is said to have come from the treasure looted at Mir Zakah between 1992 and 1993.
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