Sex is commonly understood to be based on a personâs genitals and reproductive organs; these anatomical details are thought to define a person as male or female. Gender is often understood to refer to gender identity, meaning your internal sense of yourself as female, male, or other, regardless of biology.
Religion & Spirituality. King Herod the Great was the villain in the Christmas story, a wicked king who saw the baby Jesus as a threat and wanted to murder him. Although he ruled over the Jews in Israel in the time before Christ, Herod the Great was not completely Jewish. He was born in 73 B.C. to an Idumean man named Antipater and a woman named Cyprus, who was the daughter of an Arab sheik. King Herod was a schemer who took advantage of Roman political unrest to claw his way to the top.
By some distance, the main source for the Greco-Persian Wars is the Greek historian Herodotus. Herodotus, who has been called the Father of History, was born in 484 BC in Halicarnassus, Asia Minor (then part of the Persian empire).