Belshazzar (other)
Belshazzar was a Babylonian leader. Belshazzar may also refer to: * Belshazzar (Handel), Handel's oratorio * Belshazzar (novel), novel by H. Rider Haggard * Belshazzar (unit), bottle size * Belshazzar, a nickname and a trade name for an overhead projector See also * Balthazar (other) * Belshazzar's Feast (other) * Belteshazzar, according to the Book of Daniel, was the Babylonian name given to the prophet Daniel * Cultural depictions of Belshazzar Belshazzar (6th century BC), son of the last king of the Neo-Babylonian empire, Nabonidus, has inspired many works of art and cultural allusions, often with a religious motif. While a historical figure, depictions and portrayals of him are most of ...

Belshazzar
Belshazzar (Babylonian cuneiform: ''Bēl-šar-uṣur'', meaning " Bel, protect the king"; ''Bēlšaʾṣṣar'') was the son and crown prince of Nabonidus (556–539 BC), the last king of the Neo-Babylonian Empire. Through his mother he might have been a grandson of Nebuchadnezzar II (605–562 BC), though this is not certain and the claims to kinship with Nebuchadnezzar may have originated from royal propaganda. Belshazzar played a pivotal role in the ''coup d'état'' that overthrew the king Labashi-Marduk (556 BC) and brought Nabonidus to power in 556 BC. Since Belshazzar was the main beneficiary of the coup, through confiscating and inheriting Labashi-Marduk's estates and wealth, it is likely that he was the chief orchestrator. Through proclaiming his father as the new king, Belshazzar also made himself the first-in-line to the throne. As Nabonidus was relatively old at the time, Belshazzar could expect to become king within a few years. Nabonidus was absent from Babylon fr ...
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Belshazzar (Handel)
''Belshazzar'' ( HWV 61) is an oratorio by George Frideric Handel. The libretto was by Charles Jennens, and Handel abridged it considerably.G.F. Handel, "Belshazzar", ed. Friedrich Chrysander. Leipzig: 1864. Reprint by Kalmus Miniature Scores. Melville, NY: Belwin Mills. Jennens' libretto was based on the Biblical account of the fall of Babylon at the hands of Cyrus the Great and the subsequent freeing of the Jewish nation, as found in the Book of Daniel. Handel composed ''Belshazzar'' in the late Summer of 1744 concurrently with ''Hercules'', during a time that Winton Dean calls "the peak of Handel's creative life". Dean, Winton''Handel's Dramatic Oratorios and Masques'' London: Oxford University Press, 1959. pp. 435 It premiered the following Lenten season on 27 March 1745 at the King's Theatre, London. It fell into neglect after Handel's death, with revivals in the United Kingdom in 1847, 1848 and 1873. With the revival of interest in Baroque music and historically inform ...
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Belshazzar (novel)
''Belshazzar'' is a historical novel by H. Rider Haggard set in Ancient Babylon. It was written in 1924,
"Belshazzar" at isualhaggard.org and was just finished at the time of his death.

Publication history

The novel was published posthumously. It was refused by Haggard's publisher Hutchinson's, and the first U.K. edition was published by Stanley Paul & Co., Ltd., London, in September 1930. It was reissued in 1931. The first U.S. edition was published by Doubleday, Doran and Co., New York, the same year. A trad ...
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Belshazzar (unit)
A wine bottle is a bottle, generally a glass bottle, that is used for holding wine. Some wines are fermented in the bottle while others are bottled only after fermentation. Recently the bottle has become a standard unit of volume to describe sales in the wine industry, measuring . Wine bottles are produced, however, in a variety of volumes and shapes. Wine bottles are traditionally sealed with a cork, but screw-top caps are becoming popular, and there are several other methods used to seal a bottle. Sizes Many traditional wine bottle sizes are named for Biblical kings and historical figures. The chart below lists the sizes of various wine bottles in multiples relating to a standard bottle of wine, which is (six 125 mL servings). The "wineglassful"—an official unit of the apothecaries' system of weights—is much smaller at . Most champagne houses are unable to carry out secondary fermentation in bottles larger than a magnum due to the difficulty in riddling large, heav ...
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Overhead Projector
An overhead projector (often abbreviated to OHP), like a film or slide projector, uses light to project an enlarged image on a screen, allowing the view of a small document or picture to be shared with a large audience. In the overhead projector, the source of the image is a page-sized sheet of transparent plastic film (also known as "foils" or " transparencies") with the image to be projected either printed or hand-written/drawn. These are placed on the glass platen of the projector, which has a light source below it and a projecting mirror and lens assembly above it (hence, "overhead"). They were widely used in education and business before the advent of video projectors. Optical system An overhead projector works on the same principle as a slide projector, in which a focusing lens projects light from an illuminated slide onto a projection screen where a real image is formed. However some differences are necessitated by the much larger size of the transparencies used (gener ...
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Balthazar (other)
Balthazar, or variant spellings, may refer to: Arts, entertainment and media * ''Balthazar'' (novel), by Lawrence Durrell, 1958 * ''Balthasar'', an 1889 book by Anatole France * ''Professor Balthazar'', a Croatian animated TV series, 1967-1978 * ''Balthazar'' (TV series), a 2018 French crime thriller drama * Balthazar (band), a Belgian indie pop and rock group * DJ Balthazar, a Bulgarian group People Footballers * Baltasar (footballer) (born 1966), Portuguese footballer * Baltasar Gonçalves (born 1948), or Baltasar, Portuguese footballer * Baltazar (footballer, born 1926), Oswaldo da Silva, Brazilian football striker * Baltazar (footballer, born 1959), Baltazar Maria de Morais Júnior, Brazilian football striker * Marco Balthazar (born 1983), Brazilian footballer * Batata (footballer) (Baltazar Costa Rodrigues de Oliveira, born 2000), Brazilian footballer Other people with the given name * Balthazar (given name), including a list of people with the name * Balthazar (magus) ...
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Belshazzar's Feast (other)
Belshazzar's Feast is a story in the book of Daniel. Belshazzar's Feast may also refer to: Visual arts * ''Belshazzar's Feast'' (Rembrandt), a painting by Rembrandt * ''Belshazzar's Feast'' (Martin), a painting by John Martin * ''Belshazzar's Feast, the Writing on Your Wall'', an installation artwork by Susan Hiller Music * ''Belshazzar's Feast'' (Sibelius), incidental music by Jean Sibelius for Hjalmar Procopé's play * ''Belshazzar's Feast'' (Walton), a 1931 choral work by William Walton * Belshazzar's Feast (band), an English folk music duo Other uses *'' The Feasts of Belshazzar, or a Night with Stalin'', a 1989 Soviet historical drama film See also *Belshazzar (other) Belshazzar was a Babylonian leader. Belshazzar may also refer to: * Belshazzar (Handel), Handel's oratorio * Belshazzar (novel), novel by H. Rider Haggard * Belshazzar (unit), bottle size * Belshazzar, a nickname and a trade name for an overhead ...

Belteshazzar
Daniel (Aramaic and he, דָּנִיֵּאל, translit=Dānīyyēʾl, lit=God is my Judge; gr, Δανιήλ, translit=Daniḗl, translit-std=ALA-LC; ) is the main character of the Book of Daniel. According to the Hebrew Bible, Daniel was a noble Jewish youth of Jerusalem taken into captivity by Nebuchadnezzar II of Babylon, serving the king and his successors with loyalty and ability until the time of the Persian conqueror Cyrus, all the while remaining true to the God of Israel. The consensus of most modern scholars is that Daniel is not a historical figure and that the book is a cryptic allusion to the reign of the 2nd century BCE Hellenistic king Antiochus IV Epiphanes. Six cities claim the Tomb of Daniel, the most famous being that in Susa, in southern Iran, at a site known as Shush-e Daniyal. He is not a prophet in Judaism, but the rabbis reckoned him to be the most distinguished member of the Babylonian diaspora, unsurpassed in piety and good deeds, firm in his adh ...
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