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	Alexander Palace Time Machine - Alexander III (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Ironically, Alexander III was not born heir to the Russian throne.
		Alexander II was mortally wounded and died shortly thereafter.
		Alexander Alexandrovich Romanov, Tsar of all the Russia's, died of Nephritis on October 20, 1894 (OS) at the summer palace at Livadia in the Crimea.
	www.alexanderpalace.org /palace/alexbio.html (1306 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Pope Alexander III
		Alexander retreated towards the Norman south and was consecrated and crowned, 20 September, at the little Volscian town of Nympha.
		Alexander promptly responded, from the ill-fated Anagni, by solemnly excommunicating the Emperor and releasing his subjects from their oaths of allegiance.
		In the estimation of Rome, Italy, and Christendom, Alexander III's epitaph expresses the truth, when it calls him "the Light of the Clergy, the Ornament of the Church, the Father of his City and of the World." He was friendly to the new academical movement that led to the establishment of the great medieval universities.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/01287a.htm (847 words)

	Alexander III (of Russia) - Search Results - MSN Encarta (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Alexander III (of Russia) (1845-1894), Emperor (tsar) of Russia (1881-1894), who reversed many of the liberal reforms implemented by his father,...
		Nicholas II, eldest son of Alexander III, ascended the throne in 1894.
		Alexander found himself increasingly distracted from his plans for reform by the international reverberations of the rise of Napoleon.
	uk.encarta.msn.com /Alexander_III_(of_Russia).html (170 words)

	Alexander The Great - Crystalinks (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Alexander was the son of King Philip II of Macedon and of Epirote princess Olympias.
		At the ancient Phrygian capital of Gordium, Alexander "undid" the tangled Gordian knot, a feat said to await the future "king of Asia." According to the most vivid story, Alexander proclaimed that it did not matter how the knot was undone, and he hacked it apart with his sword.
		Alexander fought an epic battle against Porus, a ruler of a region in the Punjab in the Battle of Hydaspes in (326 BC).
	www.crystalinks.com /alexanderthegreat.html (3823 words)

	Alexander III (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The second son of Alexander II was born in St. Petersburg on February 26, 1845.
		Alexander III became official heir to the throne after the death of his elder brother, Nicholas, in 1865.
		Alexander III died on October 20, 1894, in Livadia, Crimea, and was buried in the Cathedral of the St. Peter and St. Paul Fortress in St. Petersburg.
	www2.sptimes.com /Treasures/TC.2.3.18.html (188 words)

	Macedonia FAQ: Alexander the Great
		Alexander the Great (356-323 BC), the king of Macedonia that conquered the Persian empire and annexed it to Macedonia, is considered one of the greatest military geniuses of all times.
		Alexander, born in Pella, the ancient capital of Macedonia, was the son of Philip II, king of Macedonia, and of Olympia, a princess of Epirus.
		Alexander began his war against Persia in the spring of 334 BC by crossing the Hellespont (modern Dardanelles) with an army of 35,000 Macedonians and 7,600 Greeks.
	faq.macedonia.org /history/alexander.the.great.html (3248 words)

	Alexander, III Biography \| Encyclopedia of World Biography
		Alexander III (1845-1894) was emperor of Russia from 1881 to 1894.
		Alexander married Princess Sophie Frederica Dagmar of Denmark (known in Russia as Maria Fedorovna) and was a devoted husband and the father of five children.
		Alexander III is known as the "czar peacemaker" because under his rule the empire remained at peace except for minor, although costly, military expeditions in central Asia.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/alexander-iii (561 words)

	Alexander the Great (Alexander of Macedon) Biography
		Alexander III the Great, the King of Macedonia and conqueror of the Persian Empire is considered one of the greatest military geniuses of all times.
		Alexander was born in 356 BC in Pella, the ancient capital of Macedonia.
		Alexander tortured and executed the accused leader of the conspiracy, Parmenio's son Philotas, the commander of the cavalry.
	www.historyofmacedonia.org /AncientMacedonia/AlexandertheGreat.html (5650 words)

	Alexander the Great. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		Alexander had no part in the murder of his father, although he may have resented him because he neglected Olympias for another wife.
		In 330 a conspiracy against Alexander was said to implicate the son of one of his generals, Parmenion; Alexander not only executed the son but also put the innocent Parmenion to death.
		Alexander’s Macedonian officers balked at his attempt to force them to intermarry with the Persians (he had himself married Roxana, a Bactrian princess, as one of his several wives), and they resisted his Eastern ways and his vision of an empire governed by tolerance.
	www.bartleby.com /65/al/AlexGreat.html (984 words)

	Pope Alexander III
		On the 7th of September 1159 he was chosen the successor of Pope Adrian IV, a minority of the cardinals, however, electing the cardinal priest Octavian, who assumed the name of Victor IV.
		This antipope, and his successors Paschal III (1164-1168) and Calixtus III (1168-1178), had the imperial support; but after the defeat of Legnano, Barbarossa finally (in the peace of Venice, 1177) recognized Alexander as pope.
		In 1181 Alexander excommunicated William the Lion of Scotland and put the kingdom under the interdict.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/po/Pope_Alexander_III.html (352 words)

	BBC - History - Alexander III of Macedon (356-323 BC)
		Alexander III of Macedon, better known as Alexander the Great, single-handedly changed the entire nature of the ancient world in little more than ten years.
		Born in the northern Greek kingdom of Macedonia in 356 BC, to Philip II and his formidable wife Olympias, Alexander was educated by the philosopher Aristotle.
		Primarily a soldier, Alexander was an acknowledged military genius who always led by example, although his belief in his own indestructibility meant he was often reckless with his own life and that of those he expected to follow him.
	www.bbc.co.uk /history/historic_figures/alexander_the_great.shtml (470 words)

	Alexander the Great - All About Turkey
		Alexander the Great, one of the world's greatest military commanders, was born in Pella - Macedonia in northern Greece, the son of King Philip II of Macedonia and Olympids, daughter of King Neoptolemos.
		Alexander had already distinguished himself in battle at Chaironaia in 338 BC when he secured the throne as Alexander III by eliminating his rivals after the death of his father in 336 BC at the hands of Pausanias, possibly a hired assassin.
		Alexander's declared policy, in part already embarked upon, of conciliation and of consolidating the great new empire he had created from so many disparate pieces, was doomed to failure.
	www.allaboutturkey.com /alexander.htm (320 words)

	Alexander III, pope. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		Alexander’s election to the papacy was opposed by a few cardinals, who elected an antipope, Victor IV.
		Alexander was forced (1162) by Emperor Frederick I into exile in France.
		Alexander had already (1174) received the penance of Henry II of England for the murder of St. Thomas Becket, whom Alexander had canonized in 1173.
	www.bartleby.com /65/al/Alexand3.html (276 words)

	Alexander Technique: The Insider's Guide
		While Alexander was developing his method of voice training, he realized that the basis for all successful vocal education was an efficiently and naturally functioning respiratory mechanism.
		Alexander had also made the discovery that breathing and vocalization are part and parcel of how the body functions as a whole.
		The F Matthias Alexander Trust is a registered charity (UK) created in 1990 to advance the education of the general public in the Alexander Technique, to promote research and study into all aspects of the Alexander Technique, and to disseminate the useful results of that research
	www.alexandercenter.com (2238 words)

	Alexander III of Russia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Alexander deprecated what he considered undue foreign influence in general, and German influence in particular, so the adoption of genuine national principles was off in all spheres of official activity, with a view to realizing his ideal of a homogeneous Russia—homogeneous in language, administration and religion.
		Alexander III was succeeded by his eldest son Nicholas II of Russia.
		Alexander III had six children of his marriage with Princess Dagmar of Denmark, later known as Marie Feodorovna.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Alexander_III_of_Russia (1800 words)

	History of the Monarchy > Descendants of Malcom III > Alexander III
		Born in 1241, the only son of Alexander II and his second wife, Marie de Coucy, Alexander became king at the age of seven, on the death of his father.
		Alexander established good relations with his brother-in-law Edward I. On 19 August 1274, Alexander and Margaret attended the coronation of her brother in Westminster Abbey.
		Alexander was only 44, and so he decided that the best way to avoid a constitutional crisis was to remarry and have more sons.
	www.royal.gov.uk /output/Page115.asp (379 words)

	Russian Lacquer Box - Alexander III (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Alexander III Aleksandrovich (1845-1894) was the son of the tsar Alexander II, becoming the tsar himself after the assassination of his father.
		Alexander III did promote as much as possible the gentry class in Russia, and the establishment of a State Gentry Land Bank was one of the ways in which he tried to do this.
		Alexander III tried to help the peasant, too, despite his general opinion that they were second-class citizens and not really capable of making sound decisions.
	www.lacquerbox.com /TSAL3.HTM (482 words)

	Royalty.nu - Alexander the Great, King of Macedon
		Alexander the Great's father, Philip, was the brother of King Perdiccas III of Macedon or Macedonia, in northern Greece.
		In the Absence of Alexander: Harpalus and the Failure of of Macedonian Authority by Christopher Blackwell.
		Alexander: A History of the Origin and Growth of the Art of War from the Earliest Times to the Battle of Ipsus, 301 BC by Theodore Ayrault Dodge.
	www.royalty.nu /Europe/Balkan/Alexander.html (3914 words)

	boys clothing: Russian royalty--Alexander III (1881-94)
		Alexander II was buried in the Cathedral of the St. Peter and St. Paul Fortress in St. Petersburg.
		Alexander II in 1841 as Tsareivitch or Crown Prince married Maria of Hessen-Darmstadt (Maria Alexandrovna).
		Dagmar became engaged to the eldest son of Tsar Alexander II of Russia, the Tsarevitch Nicholas, in the summer of 1864 during the war with Prussia and Austria.
	histclo.com /royal/rus/royal-rusa3.htm (2752 words)

	Alexander III
		At the assassination of Philip II in the autumn of 336 BC, his son Alexander III acceded to the throne.
		Having entrusted the government to the aged general Antipater, in the spring of 334 BC Alexander set out on a pan-Hellenic campaign to punish the Persians and liberate the Greek cities of the Asia Minor littoral from the Persian yoke.
		Alexander III died at the age of 33 having changed the aspect of the world and the course of history.
	www.macedonian-heritage.gr /HellenicMacedonia/en/A1.4.html (264 words)

	Alexander III quiz -- free game
		Alexander was educated from his youth to become czar.
		Alexander III, when he became Czarevich upon the death of his elder brother, was trained by his father Alexander II for the day when he would become czar.
		In this, Alexander II follwed the model set by his father Nicholas I. Alexander, in his turn, trained his son Nicolas II.
	www.funtrivia.com /playquiz.cfm?qid=186346 (363 words)

	Alexander III of Scotland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Alexander III (4 September 1241 – 19 March 1286), King of Scots, was born at Roxburgh, the only son of Alexander II by his second wife Marie de Coucy.
		Alexander had married Princess Margaret of England, a daughter of King Henry III of England and Eleanor of Provence, on 26 December, 1251.
		Alexander died in a fall from his horse in the dark while riding to visit the queen at Kinghorn in Fife on 19 March 1286.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Alexander_III_of_Scotland (899 words)

	Pope Alexander III
		Alexander III, given name Orlando Bandinelli, Roman Catholic Pope from 1159 to 1181, was a Siennese, and as a teacher of canon law in Bologna composed the Stroma or Summa Magistri Rolandi, one of the earliest commentaries on the Decretum Gratiani.
		This antipope, and his successors Paschal III (1164-68) and Calixtus III (1168-78), had the imperial support; but after the defeat of Legnano, Barbarossa finally (in the peace of Venice, 1177) recognized Alexander as pope.
		Besides checkmating Barbarossa, he had humbled King Henry II of England in the affair of Thomas Becket, he had confirmed the right of Alphonso I of Portugal to the crown, and even as a fugitive had enjoyed the favor and protection of Louis VII of France.
	www.nndb.com /people/261/000094976 (353 words)

	Notes on Alexander III (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The future Alexander III, himself, did not receive much in the line of training (his brother got all of the attention) beyond some rather rudimentary secondary instruction, some language ability and a bit of military drill.
		After his brother died, and Alexander was heir, yet he still played no real role in practical affairs of state in the sixteen years that he had to prepare to rule.
		There were no serious injuries, but in the wreckage Alexander III lifted the roof of the crushed railway car so that his family could escape.
	novaonline.nv.cc.va.us /eli/evans/HIS241/Notes/Alexander3.html (634 words)

	Scottish History The Golden Age The reign of Alexander III (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Alexander III had succeeded his father, Alexander II, in 1249 at the age of seven.
		He successfully withstood false claims of sovereignty by England, both by his father-in-law Henry III and his brother-in-law Edward I. The years of peace and rising prosperity gave Scotland, a foundation of unity, and a feeling of Scottishness and a spirit that she never had before.
		Alexander was said to be in good humour at the conclusion of the meeting and after eating he set off in the evening to return to Fife where his second wife, of six months, Yolande, awaited his return.
	www.electricscotland.com /history/other/golden_age.htm (1068 words)

	Alexander III
		In 1866 Alexander married Princess Marie Dagmar, the daughter of King Kristian IX of Denmark and sister of Queen Alexandra of Britain.
		Alexander became Tsar of Russia on the assassination of Alexander II in 1881.
		During his reign Alexander followed a repressive policy against those seeking political reform and persecuted other Jews and others who were not members of the Russian Orthodox Church.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /RUSalexander3.htm (197 words)

	pothos.org - All about Alexander the Great (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		His original name was Alexandros Philippou Makedonon (Alexander son of Philip of Macedon) and he lived from 356 BCE to 323 BCE.
		As the third king of Macedonia bearing this name, he is also referred to as Alexander III.
		His magnetism in life was rivaled only by his magnetism in death, and the story of his career has evoked vastly different interpretations in his age and ours.
	www.pothos.org /alexander.asp?ParaID=8 (362 words)

	Wikinfo \| Pope Alexander III (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		He was born in Siena, and first made his mark as teacher of canon law at the University of Bologna, where he composed the Stroma or the Summa Magistri Rolandi, one of the earliest commentaries on the Decretum Gratiani.
		On the September 7, 1159 he was chosen the successor of Pope Adrian IV, a minority of the cardinals, however, electing the cardinal priest Octavian, who assumed the name of Victor IV.
		In 1181 Alexander excommunicated William the Lion of
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Pope_Alexander_III (491 words)

	Alexander III, czar of Russia — Infoplease.com
		Alexander III, 1845–94, czar of Russia (1881–94), son and successor of
		Alexander II Factors that contributed to Alexander's reactionary policies included his father's assassination, his limited intelligence and education, his military background, and the influence of such advisers as Konstantin P. Pobyedonostzev
		Alexander increased the repressive powers of the police and tightened censorship and control of education.
	www.infoplease.com /ce6/people/A0803221.html (333 words)

	Medieval Sourcebook: Barbarossa and Alexander III
		Alexander was the very chancellor Roland who, as Pope Adrian VI's envoy, had so angered the emperor at Besançon; he was known too, to favour Frederick's enemy, William of Sicily.
		Alexander was chosen pope by a majority of cardinals, but his rival, Victor, besides a strong minority, had the people of Rome - whose vote they claimed, was still necessary to the election - on his side; Victor also enjoyed the priority of consecration.
		Alexander found at last, in the Lombard cities and in the king of Sicily, the allies hie most needed.
	www.fordham.edu /halsall/source/barbarossa1.html (2867 words)

	Ergonomics and the Alexander Technique III
		She is an Alexander Technique student of Carol and Brian McCullough and has been taking individual lessons since 1996.
		For instance, if I were an Alexander teacher and wanted to reach out to the medical community, I would probably go visit physicians and therapists one at a time to understand their personal perpectives.
		It's also interesting that Alexander used this technique, but then must have decided that imagery/visualization and metaphors weren't helpful for what he had developed and was trying to convey because he didn't incorporate them into the technique.
	www.alexandercenter.com /teacherspage/ergoalexpartiii.html (6241 words)

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