Forget Vlad the Impaler. A 19th-century cholera outbreak in Sligo may have been Bram Stoker’s chief inspiration. BY RONAN O’CONNELLJUNE 3, 2020  In 1832, cholera killed more than 10 percent of Sligo’s population. EDUCATION IMAGES / UNIVERSAL IMAGES GROUP VIA GETTY IMAGESIn This StoryDESTINATION GUIDEIreland AN AFTERNOON WIND FUNNELS DOWN deserted Old Market Street, past shuttered shops and darkened…

Lysimachus (Greek: Λυσίμαχος, Lysimachos; c. 360 BC – 281 BC) was a Macedonian officer and diadochus (i.e. “successor”) of Alexander the Great, who became a basileus (“King”) in 306 BC, ruling Thrace, Asia Minor and Macedon.Lysimachus was born in 361 BC (or 355 BC ), to a family of Thessalian Greek stock. He was the…