C. after the Persian king Cyrus had captured the city.
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The ancient Persian king Xerxes noted that eating the leaves improved his soldiers' vigor, while the Elizabethan herbalist John Gerard prescribed the plant for restoring the bloom to ladies' cheeks.
The stories, narrated by the bride Scheherazade to the Persian king, have resonated in art and literature for centuries, from Edgar Allan Poe to Alfred Tennyson's Recollections of the Arabian Nights.
To convey his plans for revolt against the Persian king, one Greek plotter wrote his message on the shaved head of his messenger, and then waited for the hair to grow back.
People like Thomas Jefferson, who drafted the Declaration of Independence and became the third president of the United States, had to rely on Xenophon's Cyropaedia as a reference for the life and leadership of the Persian king.
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The Persian king Xerxes took his revenge for this defeat by destroying Miletus, but the city was soon afterward rebuilt and by the middle of the fifth century b.c. it was once again a flourishing port and commercial center.
One of the most beloved pieces Matisse made during those last few years is an abstract take on "One Thousand and One Nights, " the famed collection of Middle Eastern folk tales relayed by the fictional Scheherazade each evening to avoid death at the hands of a murderous Persian king.
Six British crew members and one American were killed Saturday in a midair collision between two British Navy Sea King helicopters over the Persian Gulf, according to the UK Central Command in Qatar and the Pentagon.
Conspiracy-minded reformists refer to the Persian verses that relate the endeavours of a Jewish king to sow discord among his Christian subjects, by planting his mischief-making minister among them in the guise of a convert.
In addition to his domestic reporting, King covered a number of major international events, including the first Persian Gulf War, the U.S. military operation to restore the Aristide government to Haiti and the inauguration of Nelson Mandela as president of South Africa.
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