... Croesus ruled the kingdom of Lydia, In Western Asia Minor. He succeeded his father. King Alyottes, to the Lydian throne about 60S years before Christ. Of course, that's a good while back, but King Croesus' name is frequently mentioned ...
... Croesus, and nothing In training was more consistent In falling to win brackets. Croesus was the woret mlnnomer of a horse In all the United Stales, Then Wagner discovered that Croesus liked distance. Ho gave tho horse careful ...
... Croesus strove valiantly to purify the gold extracted in huge amounts from the Pactolus Torrent. The workshops, dating from sixth century B.C., lie on bank of that river, which according to Hei'odotus :he source of the gold provided Croesus ...
... Croesus, last of the kings of Lydia and first big international banker. You have heard the expression "rich as Croesus". John D. Rockefeller could buy and sell Croesus at least a dozen times over. Yet Croesus's name endures on through ...
... Croesus with his prover- bial riches. The site has been excavated by a Harvard-Cornell expedition that recently reported Its discoveries. It appears that Croesus used an ingenious, though primitive, technology in refining gold. The ...
CROWN CROESUS WELL SITUATED Property Adjoins Fabulously Rich Mine, and Indications Are Promising. Twelve miles east of Matheson . the Timisk-aming and Northern OntarWholesale. io Railway is probably the richest gold mine in the world. It ...
... Croesus was king Croesus was "rich as Croesus" £ because he was a great world trader. He was once ..visited by the great Athenian statesman. Solon, • legend has it 'but it may not be so), and Solon told *Croesus about the divine nemesis ...
... Croesus, last of the tings of Lydia first big international banker. You have heard the expression, "Rich as Croesus." John D. Rockefeller could buy and sell Croesus at least a dozen times over. Yet Croesus' name endures on. ihorugh the ...
... Croesus" has come down th-ough ~ but nobody knows how rich ages — old Croesus really was. Croesus was a king in Asia Minor; he iulpd over a country called i/ydla. and died about four hundred years before C hrist. He inherited a fine lot ...
... Croesus, for It Is true Indeed that tho Perslanu before they Biibduod the b^lans had no luxury nor «ny (rood thine." Croesus and .Cyrus fought an In- doel.ilvo battle nt 1'eerla, from which Cro6»u!i retreated. Cyrus followed him up and ...