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.
Herodotus - the father of history. '(Herodotus) The man that invented history'. The Roman writer Marcus Tullius Cicero 106 B.C. to 43 B.C. Herodotus of Halicarnassus was an ancient historian who lived in the 5th century BC. He is famous for his writings, called 'The Histories of Herodotus published between 430 BC and 424 BC, on the conflict between Greece and Persia, as well as the descriptions he wrote of different places and people he met on his travels.