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 		<English>[H1]Khosrow I[\H1][NEWLINE][BOLD]King of Kings of Persia[\BOLD][NEWLINE][BOLD]Lived:[\BOLD] 501 - 579 AD[NEWLINE][NEWLINE][BOLD]Background:[\BOLD][PARAGRAPH:1]Khosrow I, also known as Anushiruwan the Just, was the twenty-second Shahanshah (King of Kings) of the Sasanian Persian Empire. His reign, lasting from 531 to 579, was the peak of the Sasanian dynasty and one of the last golden ages of pre-Islamic Iran.[PARAGRAPH:2]A philosopher king, Khosrow introduced several reforms in the administration of the Sasanian Empire, allowing its economy to prosper. He undertook many building projects across the empire. As a patron of the arts and sciences, he greatly expanded the Academy of Gondeshapur, and welcomed the Greek philosophers who left Athens after Justinian closed the Neoplatonist Academy. It was under his reign that chess, an Indian game, was introduced to Persia, from where it eventually reached the Western world. Militaristically, Khosrow waged several wars, including two as part of the centuries-old conflict with the Roman-Byzantine Empire. His achievements had a lasting impact on the culture of the Islamic world following the Muslim conquest of Persia, less than a hundred years after his death.</English>
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+		<English>[H1]Aleksandr II Nikolayevich[\H1][NEWLINE][BOLD]Emperor of Russia[\BOLD][NEWLINE][BOLD]Lived:[\BOLD] 1818 - 1881 AD[NEWLINE][NEWLINE][BOLD]Background:[\BOLD][PARAGRAPH:1]Alexander II was the Emperor of Russia from 2 March 1855 until his assassination on 13 March 1881. He was also the King of Poland and the Grand Duke of Finland.[PARAGRAPH:2]Alexander's most significant reform as emperor was emancipation of Russia's serfs in 1861, for which he is known as Alexander the Liberator. The tsar was responsible for other reforms, including reorganizing the judicial system, setting up elected local judges, abolishing corporal punishment, promoting local self-government through the zemstvo system, imposing universal military service, ending some privileges of the nobility, and promoting university education.[PARAGRAPH:2]In foreign policy, Alexander sold Alaska to the United States in 1867, fearing the remote colony would fall into British hands if there were another war. He sought peace, moved away from bellicose France when Napoleon III fell in 1871, and in 1872 joined with Germany and Austria in the League of the Three Emperors that stabilized the European situation. Despite his otherwise pacifist foreign policy, he fought a brief war with the Ottoman Empire in 1877-78, pursued further expansion into Siberia and the Caucasus, and conquered Turkestan. Although disappointed by the results of the Congress of Berlin in 1878, Alexander abided by that agreement. Among his greatest domestic challenges was an uprising in Poland in 1863, to which he responded by stripping that land of its separate constitution and incorporating it directly into Russia. Alexander was proposing additional parliamentary reforms to counter the rise of nascent revolutionary and anarchistic movements when he was assassinated in 1881.</English>
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 		<English>[TAB]An academy is a school for advanced learning. Though China, Egypt, and India had such institutes earlier, the term "academy" was first applied to the Athenian school of philosophy, founded by Plato in approximately 390 BC. The school was built near a sacred grove named "Hekademia."[PARAGRAPH:1]An academy was an important asset for a city. It attracted both brilliant scholars and the children of wealthy or noble parents, who might then decide to settle in the city permanently. The academy could provide a broad, general education to its students, or it might concentrate upon a specific subject such as philosophy, mathematics, art, natural philosophy (the world and everything in it), or the martial arts.[PARAGRAPH:1]Today there are many educational facilities which bear the name "academy." The term is used loosely now, and in addition to its original meaning, is often applied to schools for children and teenagers. </English>