who can tell me about Cyrus the Great ?
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Cyrus the Great (Persian: کوروش کبیر), also Cyrus II of Persia or Cyrus the Elder, (ca. 576 or 590 – July 529 BC), founded the Persian Empire under the Achaemenid Dynasty of Anshan by unifying two Iranian tribes: the Medes and the Persians. In two historical documents discovered in Babylon and Ur Cyrus identifies himself as the "King of Iran". Cyrus is the first king whose name was suffixed with the word "Great" (or Vazraka in Old Persian, Bozorg in modern Persian), a title adopted by his Acheamenid successors as well as by Alexander the Great who overthrew the Achaemenid dynasty two centuries later.\nCyrus, the son of a Persian king named Cambyses I and a Mede princess, was from the Achaemenid Dynasty, which ruled the kingdom of Anshan, in what is now southwestern Iran. The founder of the dynasty was King Achaemenes (ca. 700 BC) who was succeeded by his son Teispes of Anshan. Inscriptions indicate that when the latter died, two of his sons shared the throne as Cyrus I of Anshan and Ariaramnes of Persia. They were succeeded by their respective sons Cambyses I of Anshan and Arsames of Persia. Cambyses is considered by Herodotus and Ctesias to be of humble origin. But they also consider him as being married to Princess Mandane of Media (ماد), a daughter of Astyages, King of the Medes and Princess Aryenis of Lydia. Cyrus II was the result of this union. Cyrus had two sons: Cambyses and Smerdis, as well as several daughters, of whom Atossa is significant since she married Darius the Great and was mother of Xerxes I of Persia.\nIn 559 BC, Cyrus succeeded his father Cambyses the Elder as King of Anshan. He apparently also soon managed to succeed Arsames to the throne of Persia though the latter was still living. Arsames was father of Hystaspes and would live to see his grandson become King Darius I of Persia. However, Cyrus was not yet an independent ruler. Like his predecessors before him, Cyrus had to recognize Median overlordship.\n\nIn his Histories, Herodotus gives a detailed description of the rise to power of Cyrus according to the best sources available to him. The story of Cyrus' early life found in the Histories, it should be noted, resembles other legendary accounts that form a particular genre of tales in which abandoned children of noble birth inevitably return to claim their royal positions - such as those of Oedipus or Romulus and Remus. According to Herodotus, Cyrus was said to be part-Persian (Parsua) and part Mede and his overlord was his own grandfather Astyages who had conquered all Assyrian kingdoms apart from Babylonia. After the birth of Cyrus, Astyages had a dream that his Magi interpreted as a sign of an eventual overthrow by his grandson. He then ordered his steward Harpagus to kill the infant Cyrus. Harpagus, morally unable to kill a newborn, summoned a herdsman of the king named Mithridates and ordered him to dispose of the child. Troubled by this command, Mithridates confided in his wife Cyno. Cyno, who had recently given birth to a stillborn baby, told her husband to expose their dead child to the elements while they took Cyrus to raise as their own. Mithridates then presented the stillborn to Harpagus as proof that the task had been accomplished. Many years later, when Astyages discovered that his grandson was still alive, he ordered that the son of Harpagus be beheaded and served to his father on a dinner platter. Harpagus, seeking vengeance, convinced Cyrus, who by then was living with his noble, biological parents, to rally the Persian people -- then in a state of vassalage to the Medes -- to revolt ca. 554 BC–553 BC. Between 550 BC–549 BC, with the help of Harpagus, Cyrus led the Persians and his armies to capture Ecbatana, and effectively conquered Media. While he seems to have accepted the crown of Media, by 546 BC he had officially assumed the title of 'King of Persia'. Thus the Persians gained dominion over the Iranian Plateau.\nCyrus' wars
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Cyrus didn't.\n\nDan.9:24 Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy. \n\n(CB) seventy weeks = Seventy sevens : i.e. of years. Not on any “year-day” theory. If "days” had been intended, it would be so expressed, as in Dan.10:3 (compare Lev.25:8). Moreover, “years” had been the subject of Daniel’s prayer (Dan.9:2). The last “seven” is “one”, and it is divided in half in Dan.9:27, and the half is three and a half years (Dan.7:25 ; compare Dan.8:11-14 ; Dan.11:33). In Rev.11:2 this half is expressed by “forty-two months” ; and in the next verse as “1,260 days”. The whole period is therefore 490 years.\n\nDan.9:25 Know therefore and understand, that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem unto the Messiah the Prince shall be seven weeks, and threescore and two weeks: the street shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublous times. \n\n(CB) from the going forth, &c. : i.e. in the twentieth year of Artaxerxes (= the great king: i.e. Astyages), 454 B.C.\n\n(CB) commandment = word. Hebrew dabar. Referring to the Divine word rather than to a royal decree.\n\n(CB) Jerusalem. Not the Temple (as in Ezra), but the city (as in Nehemiah), which was the subject of Daniel’s prayer, and therefore the answer to it.\n\nMessiah the Prince is Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior. Note: the upper case “P” of Prince.\n\n(CB) seven weeks = forty-nine years (454-405 B.C.). \n\n(CB) threescore and two weeks = 434 years (405 B.C. – A.D. 29) : the two together being 49 + 434 =  483 years; leaving seven years to make up the full 490 years of Dan.9:24.\n\n(GPD) page 77 : Archaeological findings have recently established September 29, 2 B.C. as the birth of Christ and April 3, A.D. 33 as the precise day of His Crucifixion. The base length of 30.043 Pyramid inches converted to years and projected on the slope of the Ascending Passage marks October 14, A.D. 29 which is the date of His baptism, exactly 3 ½ years before His death on Calvary.\n\nwall H2742 charuts (khaw-roots') Passive participle of H2782; properly incised or (active) incisive; hence (as noun masculine or feminine) a trench (as dug), gold (as mined), a threshing sledge (having sharp teeth); (figuratively) determination; also eager: - decision, diligent, (fine) gold, pointed things, sharp, threshing instrument, wall.\n\nNote: (wall) in Dan.9:25 cannot mean “wall”, for that is H2346 shown below. It probably means a ditch, i.e. a protective ditch.\n\nH2346 chomah (kho-maw') Feminine active participle of an unused root apparently meaning to join; a wall of protection: - wall, walled.\n\n(CB) in troublous times: i.e. the times of Ezra and Nehemiah. This covers the forty-nine years. We know this, not from history profane or Divine, but from the statement here.\n\nDan.9:26 And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for Himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined. \n\n(CB) after threescore and two weeks. The definite Article here marks this period, as the one just mentioned in Dan.9:24 : i.e. after the 483 years.\n\n(CB) but not for Himself = but no sign of aught for Him : i.e. He shall be rejected and crucified, and shall not then enter on the kingdom for which he came. It will be rejected, and therefore become in abeyance. See John 1:11-14.\n\n(MSB) abeyance The condition of being temporarily set aside ; suspension.\n\nJohn 1:11-14 He came unto His own, and His own received Him not. 12 But as many as received Him, to them gave He power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on His name: 13 Wh
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Cyrus the Great (of Persia) in 539BC issued a series of proclamations (written on the "Cyrus cylinder"). Among other things, it guaranteed religious freedom and abolished slavery. This is the earliest surviving human rights declaration.
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king charles the second\n\nthis link may help you
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For more details, see:\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Duke_George_Alexandrovich_of_Russia
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well tell me who it is and i can get you information
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Alexander the Great\n     *Macedonian Ruler, 300 B.C.\n Socrates\n     *Greek Philosopher, 400 B.C.\n Sappho\n     *Greek Woman Poet, 600 B.C.\n Hadrian\n     *Roman Emperor, 1st-2nd c.\n Richard the Lionhearted\n     *English King, 12th c.\n Saladin\n     *Sultan of Egypt and Syria\n Desiderius Erasmus\n     *Dutch Monk, Philosopher\n Francis Bacon\n     *English statesman, author\n Frederick the Great\n     *King of Prussia\n Lord Byron\n     *English poet, 18th c.\n Walt Whitman\n     *U.S. poet, author, 19th c.\n Oscar Wilde\n     *Irish author, 19th c.\n Marcel Proust\n     *French author, 20th c.\n Colette\n     *French author, 20th c.\n Gertrude Stein\n     *U.S. poet, author, 20th c.\n Alice B. Toklas\n     *U.S. author, 20th c.\n Federico Garcia Lorca\n     *Spanish author, 20th c.\n Cole Porter\n     *U.S. composer, 20th c.\n Virginia Woolf\n     *English author, 20th c.\nLeonard Bernstein\n     *U.S. composer, 20th c.\n Pope Julius III\n     *1550-1555\n T.E. Lawrence\n     *English soldier, author, 20th c.\n Jean Cocteau\n     *French writer, director, 20th c.\n Charles Laughton\n     *English actor, 20th c.\n Marguerite Yourcenar\n     *Belgian author, 20th c.\n Tennessee Williams\n     *U.S. Playwright, 20th c.\n James Baldwin\n     *U.S. author, 20th c.\n Andy Warhol\n     *U.S. artist, 20th c.\n Michelangelo\n     *Italian artist, 15th c.\n Leonardo Da Vinci\n     *Ital. Artist, scientist, 15th c.\n Christopher Marlowe\n     *Eng. Playwright, 16th c.\n Herman Melville\n     *U.S. author, 19th c.\n Horatio Alger, Jr.\n     *U.S. author, 19th c.\n Tchaikovsky\n     *Russian composer, 19th c.\nWilla Cather\n     *U.S. author, 19th c.\n Amy Lowell\n     *U.S. author, 19th & 20th c.\n E.M. Forster\n     *English author, 20th c.\n John M. Keynes\n     *English economist, 20th c.\n Ludwig Wittgenstein\n     *Australian mathematician, 20th c.\n Bessie Smith\n     *U.S. singer, 20th c.\n Noel Coward\n     *English playwright, 20th c.\n Christopher Isherwood\n     *English author, 20th c.\n Pier Paolo Pasolini\n     *Italian film director, 20th c.\n Yukio Mishima\n     *Japanese author, 20th c.\n Eleanor Roosevelt\n     *U.S. stateswoman, 20th c.\n Julius Caesar\n     *Roman Emperor, 100-44 B.C.\n Augustus Caesar\n     *Roman Emperor\n Harvey Milk\n     *U.S. politician, 20th c.\n Bayard Rustin\n     *U.S. Civil Rights activist, 20th c.\n James I\n     *English King, 16th-17th c.\n Queen Anne\n     *English Queen, 18th c.\n Marie Antoinette\n     *French Empress, 18th c.\n Melissa Etheridge\n     *U.S. Rock Star, 20th c.\n Pope Benedict IX\n     *1032-1044\n May Sarton\n     *U.S. author, (1912 - 1995)\n Edna Ferber\n     *U.S. author, 20th c.\n Elton John\n     *English Rock Star, 20th c.\n Margaret Fuller\n     *U.S. writer, educator, 20th c.\n Montezuma II\n     *Aztec ruler, 16th c.\n Peter the Great\n     *Russian Czar, 17th-18th c.\n Langston Hughes\n     *U.S. author, 20th c.\n Pope John XII\n     *955-964\n Madame de Stael\n     *French writer, 17th-18th c.\n Martina Navratilova\n     *U.S. tennis star, 20th c.\n Greg Louganis\n     *U.S. Olympic swimmer, 20th c.\n Billie Jean King\n     *U.S. tennis star, 20th c.\n Roberta Achtenburg\n     *U.S. politician, 20th c.\n Barney Frank\n     *U.S. Congressman, 20th c.\n Gerry Studds\n     *U.S. Congressman, 20th c.\n Hans Christian Andersen\n     *Danish author, 19th c.\n Tom Dooley\n     *U.S. M.D. missionary, 20th c.\n Frida Kahlo\n     *Mexican artist, 20th c.\n Suleiman the Magnificent\n     *Ottoman ruler, 15th c.\n Rock Hudson\n     *U.S. actor, 20th c.\n Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz\n     *Mexican author, 16th c.\n Ralph Waldo Emerson\n     *U.S. author, 19th c.\n Candace Gingrich\n     *Gay Rights activist, 20th c.\n Margarethe Cammermeyer\n     *U.S. Army Colonel, 20th c.\n Zoe Dunning\n     *U.S. Military Reservist, 20th c.\n Tom Waddel\n     *U.S. M.D., Olympic star, 20th c.\n Kate Millet\n     *U.S. author, 20th c.\n Janis Joplin\n     *U.S. singer, 20th c.\n
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine_the_Great
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have you tried to find any info on him in www.wikipedia.com
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I don't have much for you, but you may want to try something like this.\n\nIf the first literate societies that emerged from the "Cradle of Civilization" (as Mesopotamia is often referred to) were able to observe the future in their region, would they do anything differently?\n\nMesopotamia is what is part of present day Syria and Iraq, a region torn apart by war. It seem so far removed from the land of scholars it once was, when knowledge was power and the great library of Alexandria was the destination of the philosopher, astronomer, and mathematician.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tutankhamun
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William T. Sherman\n\nAmerican soldier, businessman, educator, and author. He served as a general in the United States Army during the American Civil War (1861–65)
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I haven't done a paper about him but I have edited a children's nonfiction book about him. What kind of information do you need? There's lots of good, interesting information out there about him. Check out the websites below and then go to your library!
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Heres the article from Encarta Encyclopedia:\nhttp://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761559228_2/Mesopotamia.html#s5\n\nAnd another site that may help you:\nhttp://www.infoplease.com/ce6/history/A0859584.html
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Herodotus (484?-425 bc), Greek historian, known as the father of history, born in Halicarnassus (now Bodrum, Turkey). He is believed to have been exiled from Halicarnassus about 457 bc for conspiring against Persian rule. He probably went directly to Sámos, from which he traveled throughout Asia Minor, Babylonia, Egypt, and Greece. The direction and extent of his travels are not precisely known, but they provided him with valuable firsthand knowledge of virtually the entire ancient Middle East. About 447 bc he went to Athens, then the center and focus of culture in the Greek world, where he won the admiration of the most illustrious men of Greece, including the great Athenian statesman Pericles. In 443 bc Herodotus settled in the Panhellenic colony of Thurii in southern Italy. He devoted the remainder of his life to the completion of his great work, entitled History, the Greek word for “inquiry.”
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Emperor Augustus.\n\nThe link below has plenty of interesting information on the Emperor.
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First Appearance: All-American Comics #61\n\nAlias: Cyrus Gold\n\nPowers: Mystically enhanced corpse with super-human strength, stamina and durability, requiring neither food, liquid, oxygen or rest; capable of infinite resurrections\n\nHis Deal:  During the later part of the 19th Century, Cyrus Gold was killed and left to rot in Slaughter Swamp.  His remains were never found and over the process of half a century the organic muck collected around his corpse and mysteriously one day took on its own life.  With limited memory of his previous existence the swamp monster found his way to a hobo camp after robbing a pair of escaped criminals of their clothes. When asked his name he replied that he did not have one, but that he had been born on a Monday.  One of the hobos remarked he was like the nursery rhyme character and named the monster Solomon Grundy.