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The 2001 novel The Ten Thousand by Michael Curtis Ford is a fictional account of this group's exploits. [25] [26] Shane Brennan's In the Tracks of the Ten Thousand: A Journey on Foot through Turkey, Syria and Iraq (London: Robert Hale, 2005) is an account of his 2000 journey to retrace the steps of the Ten Thousand.
Ten thousand martyrs may refer to the ten thousand martyred Fathers in the Deserts and caves of Scete by Theophilus of Alexandria or to the ten thousand martyrs of Mount Ararat who were, according to a medieval legend, Roman soldiers who, led by Saint Acacius, converted to Christianity and were crucified on Mount Ararat by order of the Roman emperor.
The Martyrdom of the Ten Thousand is an oil painting by Albrecht Dürer, dating to 1508 and now at the Kunsthistorisches Museum of Vienna, Austria.It is signed on a cartouche which hangs from the artist's self-portrait in the center, saying Iste faciebat Ano Domini 1508 Albertus Dürer Aleman.
The Ten Thousand Martyrs is an oil on panel painting by Pontormo, executed c. 1529–1530, produced for the monks of Florence's Spedale degli Innocenti and now in the city's Galleria Palatina. [1] It shows the martyrdom of the eponymous martyrs alongside Saint Maurice .
The Ten Thousand Things is a historical novel by author and playwright John Spurling, based on life of 14th-century Chinese artist Wang Meng during the Yuan dynasty.It was published by Duckworth Overlook in 2014 and won the Walter Scott Prize in 2015. [1]
Ten Thousand Villages is a nonprofit fair trade organization that markets handcrafted products made by artisans from more than 120 artisan groups in more than 35 countries.. As one of the world’s largest and oldest fair trade organizations, [1] Ten Thousand Villages cultivates long-term buying relationships in which artisans receive a fair price for their work and consumers have access to ...
Ten Thousand Lovers by Edeet Ravel ISBN 0-06-056562-4. In philosophy, Lao Zi writes about ten thousand things in the Tao Te Ching. In Taoism, the "10,000 Things" is a term meaning all of phenomenal reality. [23] In piphilology, ten thousand is the current world record for the Number of digits of pi memorized by a human being.
Mount Song, the location where the phrase "Ten thousand years" was coined. In Chinese, ten thousand or "myriad" is the largest numerical order of magnitude in common usage, and is used ubiquitously as a synonym for "indefinitely large number".