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Jan 8, 2024 · Virgin Radio’s very own Vassos Alexander was a contestant on The Weakest Link at the weekend, as part of a Radio Special. Vassos joined fellow radio presenters Fi Glover, Rick Edwards, Dave Berry, Owain Wyn Evans, Nikita Kanda, Snoochie Shy and Vicky Hawkesworth on the popular BBC quiz show, hosted by comedy star Romesh Ranganathan.
Oct 24, 2022 · The legendary life of Alexander the Great is the subject of the British Library’s new exhibition Alexander the Great: The Making of a Myth which opened on Friday 21 October. A visual feast of stories spanning more than 2000 years, it centres on the Alexander Romance originally composed in Greek around the third century AD and shares narratives from East and West side by side in more than ...
The reason why Alexander had a such a smooth, comparatively, ascension to greatness is because he was born onto a military foundation that was more stable and superior than any other military force in the Mediterranean at that time. For the first time in Greece, significant numbers of men could essentially be professional soldiers, the cavalry ...
An amazingly talented cast, with some great up and coming actors, and so many hysterical moments that I had stomach cramps after! Alexander is a mid twenties virgin, definitely well cast, who turns his grandfather's house into a brothel hoping to earn enough money to satisfy the mortgage. Ron Howard's daughter, Paige Howard, plays the beautiful ...
There are a number of parallels between Jesus and Alexander. They both died when they were 33 years old. They both claimed divine sonship and dual paternity (Heracles for Alexander) and as human beings with flesh and blood they broke the barrier between humanity and the divine. Virgin births are attributed to both and world rule were their ...
Oct 20, 2016 · Olympias, originally named Myrtle, was the daughter of King Neoptolemus I of Epirus, the King of the ancient Greek tribe in Epirus: Molossians. Her brother, Alexander I, would later rule the tribe from 350–331 BC. Her family claimed to be descendants of the former mythological Greek King, Aeacus. They also claimed to descend from Achilles ...
