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Alexander the Great (34936 bytes)
1: ...pg|thumb|right|[[Bust]] of Alexander the Great in the [[British Museum]].]]
3: ''For other Alexanders, see [[Alexander (disambiguation)]]''
5: ...ch he appears as a towering legendary [[hero]] in the tradition of [[Achilles]].
6: ...edonia and the Seleucids in Syria, Asia Minor and the Middle East.
10: ...s wife was pregnant and that the child would have the character of a lion.

Harold Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Tunis (8972 bytes)
1: ...tably during [[World War II]] as the commander of the [[15th Army Group]].
3: He would later serve as the last British [[Governor General of Canada]].
6: ...ge:haroldalexander.jpg]]<br>''Harold Alexander on the front cover of [[Time Magazine]], 1944.''</div>
10: ... [[Distinguished Service Order]] in [[1916]], and the [[Legion of Honour]], and by [[1918]] was a briga...
12: ...937]] he was promoted to major general and joined the [[British Expeditionary Force]] (BEF).

A. V. Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Hillsborough (19189 bytes)
1: ...], including during the [[Second World War]], and then [[Secretary of State for Defence|Minister of Def...
3: [[Image:avalexander.jpg|right|thumb|A.V. Alexander, Minister of Defence]]
6: ...der's death in [[August]] [[1886]]. Alexander's mother worked as a corset-maker to provide for her chil...
8: ...[[local education authority]], where he worked in the School Management Department as a committee clerk...
10: ...cil]] in [[1909]]. He was elected to the board of the Weston Co-op Society in [[1910]].

Great Northern Railway (Great Britain) (4866 bytes)
1: ...d the [[Great Northern Railway (Ireland)|Great Northern Railway]] in Ireland.''
5: ...ted Kingdom|British]] railway company, founded by the London & York Railway Act of [[1846]].
7: The main line ran from [[London]] via [[Hitchin]], [[...
9: ...in line from London to Doncaster was open, as was the new London terminus of [[Kings Cross station|King...
11: ...ne the "Euston Square Confederacy" established by the [[London and North Western Railway]].

Alexander I (697 bytes)
1: A number of historical people were named Alexander I :
3: *[[Alexander I of Macedon]], king of [[Macedon]] 495-450 BC
4: *[[Alexander I of Epirus]] King of [[Epirus]] about [[342 BC|3...
5: *[[Pope Alexander I]], [[Pope]] from [[106]] to [[115]]
6: *[[Alexander I of Scotland]] (c. [[1078]]-[[1124]]), King of [...

Alexander II (404 bytes)
1: A number of historical people were named '''Alexander II''':
3: *[[Alexander II of Epirus]], King of [[Epirus]] [[272 BC|272 B...
4: *[[Pope Alexander II]], Pope from [[1061]] to [[1073]]
5: *[[Alexander II of Scotland]] ([[1198]]-[[1249]]), King of [[S...
6: *[[Alexander II of Russia]] ([[1818]]-[[1881]]), Emperor of [[...

Alexander IV (217 bytes)
1: '''Alexander IV''' may refer to either of the following;
3: *[[Pope Alexander IV]]
4: ... Macedon]], the (putative) son of [[Alexander the Great]]

J. W. Alexander (3115 bytes)
1: [[Image:James_Waddell_Alexander.jpg|thumb|J. W. Alexander]]
2: ..., and others. He was one of the first members of the [[Institute for Advanced Study]] (1933-1951), and...
4: ...ot complement]]. From this invariant, he obtained the first [[polynomial knot invariant]].
6: ... a means of computing homological invariants from the [[knot diagram]].
8: ...ne Hall]] open so that he could enter by climbing the building.

Alexander Godfrey (614 bytes)
1: ...] which defeated a [[Spain|Spanish]] squadron off the [[Spanish Main]] in [[1800]]. He died of [[yellow...
4: .../genealogy/Godfrey/Godfrey_I559.html Biography of Alexander Godfrey]
8: [[Category:Privateers|Godfrey, Alexander]]

Alexander Trocchi (1511 bytes)
1: ...[Glasgow]] in [[1925]] as the son of an Italian father and died in London on [[April 15]], [[1984]].
3: ...chi claimed that this journal came to an end when the US State Department cancelled its many subscripti...
5: ...dias]] published many of Trocchi's novels through the notorious [[Olympia Press]].
7: ...'s Book" which became something of a sensation at the time.
9: ... [[Lettrist International]] and subsequently with the [[Situationist International]].

Robert Alexander (2213 bytes)
1: ...the [[American Revolution]]. He was a delegate to the [[Continental Congress]] for [[Maryland]] in [[17...
3: ...altimore County. He also represented Baltimore in the state's ''Committee of Safety''.
5: ...Secret Committee''. Then in April he was added to the Marine Committee.
7: ...the occupation of Philadelphia, Alexander fled to the British Navy, and made his way to [[London]] in [...
9: ...the main house that his father had built in 1735. The house still stands, and is located at 323 Hermita...

Alexander MacFarlane (1168 bytes)
1: ...]]-[[Canada|Canadian]] logician, physicist, and mathematician. He was born at [[Blairgowrie]], [[Scotla...
3: ...icipated in several International Congresses of Mathematicians.
9: ...ttp://ca.geocities.com/macfarlanebio Biography of Alexander Macfarlane]
10: ...ext06/tbmms10p.pdf FTP PDF of his ''Ten British Mathematicians'' lectures, from Project Gutenberg]
12: [[Category:Mathematicians|MacFarlane, Alexander]]

Alexander Marx (261 bytes)
1: ...Jewish Theological Seminary of America]]. He was the son-in-law of [[Rabbi]] David Zvi Hoffman.

Alexander Pope (5463 bytes)
1: [[Image:AlexanderPope.jpg|framed|Alexander Pope]]
3: ... of the greatest [[England|English]] [[poet]]s of the eighteenth century.
5: ...us health problems, including [[tuberculosis]] of the [[spine]], which deformed his body and stunted hi...
7: ... which [[Colley Cibber]] took Theobald's place as the 'hero'.
9: ...se before, as he had decreased its usefulness for them.

Dale Alexander (4790 bytes)
1: ...reenville) was a professional baseball player for the [[Detroit Tigers]] and [[Boston Red Sox]].
3: ...turn. He continued to play in the minors through the [[1942]] season.
78: [[Category:1903 births|Alexander, Dale]]
79: [[Category:1979 deaths|Alexander, Dale]]
80: [[Category:Baseball players|Alexander, Dale]]

Alexander Martin (3529 bytes)
1: [[Image:NCG-AlexanderMartin.jpg|thumb|Gov. Alexander Martin]]
3: ...list]] [[Governor of North Carolina|governor]] of the [[U.S. state]] of [[North Carolina]] from [[1782]...
5: ... in [[Hunterdon County, New Jersey]] and attended the [[College of New Jersey]] (later [[Princeton Univ...
7: ...nd returned to North Carolina, where he served in the [[North Carolina Senate]] during periods from [[1...
9: ...ed the first governor of [[North Carolina]] under the [[North Carolina Constitution of 1789]].

Alexander Dubcek (5121 bytes)
1: [[Image:Alexander_Dubcek.jpeg|thumb|200px|right|Alexander Dub&#269;ek]]
3: '''Alexander Dub&#269;ek''' ([[November 27]], [[1921]] - [[Nov...
7: ...69]]-[[1970]]: member of/ in [[1969]] speaker of the federal parliament (National Assembly, since [[19...
8: : [[1964]]-[[1970]]: member of the Slovak parliament (Slovak National Comitee)
10: ...[1963]] first secretary of the Central Comitee of the [[Communist Party of Slovakia]]

Alexander disease (2650 bytes)
1: '''Alexander disease''' is a slowly progressing fatal [[neurod...
18: ...and behavioral skills, progressive enlargement of the head ([[macrocephaly]]), [[seizures]], [[spastici...
23: ...in]] and [[cerebellum]])is caused by mutations in the [[gene]] for glial fibrillary acidic protein ([[G...
24: ...white matter]] in the [[brain]] is accompanied by the formation of fibrous, eosinophilic deposits known...
39: ... symptoms and spasticity predominate. Symptoms of the adult form may also resemble [[multiple sclerosis...

Alexander Polyhistor (2369 bytes)
1: ...at Laertius describes or paraphrases in his work, Alexander recorded various thoughts (on contradictions, fat...
5: ...s Lentulus]]) he received his freedom and assumed the name Cornelius. He accompanied [[Marcus Crassus|...
6: ...Historicorum Graecorum,'' iii:) those relating to the [[Jew]]s are important as containing quotations f...
13: ...//www.sacred-texts.com/cla/af/af02.htm Example of Alexander's Work]

Alexander Hamilton (17744 bytes)
1: [[Image:HAMILTON.jpg|thumb|right|Alexander Hamilton]]
2: ...[public credit]], the "permanent debt theory" and the foundations for American [[capitalism]] and [[sto...
5: ...monly cited year. The date, January 11, can be neither substantiated nor refuted, and is still commonly...
7: His father abandoned Hamilton and his mother, who died when Hamilton was in his early [[adole...
9: ...lefield, however, that Hamilton began formulating the ideas on government and economics that would make...

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