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King Historic District is a national historic district located at King, Stokes County, North Carolina.The district encompasses 72 contributing buildings and 1 contributing structure in the central business district and surrounding residential sections of King.
A statue by John Steell showing Alexander taming Bucephalus. A massive creature with a massive head, Bucephalus is described as having a black coat with a large white star on his brow. [citation needed] He is also supposed to have had a "wall eye" (blue eye), [citation needed] and his breeding was that of the "best Thessalian strain".
This list includes properties and districts listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Watauga County, North Carolina. Click the "Map of all coordinates" link to the right to view an online map of all properties and districts with latitude and longitude coordinates in the table below. [1]
This list includes properties and districts listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Alexander County, North Carolina, United States. Click the "Map of all coordinates" link to the right to view an online map of all properties and districts with latitude and longitude coordinates in the table below. [1]
This list includes properties and districts listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Burke County, North Carolina. Click the "Map of all coordinates" link to the right to view an online map of all properties and districts with latitude and longitude coordinates in the table below. [1]
Note: This is a sublist of List of Confederate monuments and memorials from the North Carolina section. This is a list of Confederate monuments and memorials in North Carolina that were established as public displays and symbols of the Confederate States of America (CSA), Confederate leaders, or Confederate soldiers of the American Civil War.
Alexander the Great Taming Bucephalus is an 1826 history painting by the British artist Benjamin Robert Haydon. [1] [2] It depicts a scene from ancient history when Alexander the Great tamed his famous warhorse Bucephalus. On the right of the picture are Alexander's father Philip II of Macedon and mother Olympias.
Like Alexander's horse Bucephalus, Peritas was awarded a city named in his honor, with a monument to his glory in its central square. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] According to Plutarch , after recalling the story of Bucephalus, "It is said, too, that when he lost a dog also, named Peritas, which had been reared by him and was loved by him, he founded a city and ...