People
- Xerxes II of Persia, reigned 424 BCE
- Xerxes of Armenia, Armenian king, assassinated around 212 BCE
- Xerxes of Commagene, third Satrap of the state of Commagene (228 to 201 BCE)
- Xerxes is the twenty-fourth word in the full name of Wolfe+585, Senior.
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“Trouble doesn’t seek people; people seek trouble.”
—Chinese proverb.
“My topic for Army reunions ... this summer: How to prepare for war in time of peace. Not by fortifications, by navies, or by standing armies. But by policies which will add to the happiness and the comfort of all our people and which will tend to the distribution of intelligence [and] wealth equally among all. Our strength is a contented and intelligent community.”
—Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)
“He had a son whose name was Saul, a handsome young man. There was not a man among the people of Israel more handsome than he; he stood head and shoulders above everyone else.”
—Bible: Hebrew, 1 Samuel 9:2.