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585 B​.​C.

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The Greek historian Herodotus wrote that Thales of Milete predicted an eclipse in a year when the Medians and the Lydians were at war. This is historically one of the first accurate predictions of a solar eclipse occurring on May 28, 585 b.c. , which happens to be my birthday approximately 2500 years ago.

Aylattes, the king of Lydia, was battling Cyaxares, king of the Medes, probably near the River Halys in what is now central Turkey. The heavens darkened. Soldiers of both kings put down their weapons. The battle was over. And so was the war. After 15 years of back-and-forth fighting between the Medes and the Lydians, the kings of Cilicia and Babylon intervened and negotiated a treaty. The River Halys, where the Battle of the Eclipse was fought, became the border between the Lydians and the Medes.

Originally included in the ongoing improvisational project Impronet. 585 B.C. is the 54th installation in that series.

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from ONE, released January 11, 2015

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Shane Morris Fayetteville, Arkansas

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