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n. (plural of immortal English)

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Immortals (Persian Empire)

The Immortals (from the Greek , sometimes Ten Thousand Immortals or the Persian Immortals) was the name given by Herodotus to an elite heavy infantry unit of 10,000 soldiers in the army of the Achaemenid Empire. This force performed the dual roles of both Imperial Guard and standing army. The force consisted mainly of Persians, but also included Medes and Elamites.

Essential questions regarding the unit (even its native name) remain unanswered, because authentic sources are missing.

Immortals (Byzantine Empire)

The Immortals (, Athanatoi) were one of the elite tagmata military units of the Byzantine Empire, first raised during the late 10th century. The name derives from a- ("without") + thanatos ("death").

Immortals (anthology)

Immortals (ISBN 0-441-00539-X) is an 1998 anthology of short stories edited by Jack Dann and Gardner Dozois.

Immortals (2011 film)

Immortals is a 2011 American epic fantasy- action- adventure film directed by Tarsem Singh and starring Henry Cavill, Freida Pinto, and Mickey Rourke. The film also stars Luke Evans, Steve Byers, Kellan Lutz, Joseph Morgan, Stephen Dorff, Daniel Sharman, Alan van Sprang, Isabel Lucas, Corey Sevier, and John Hurt. The film was previously named Dawn of War and War of the Gods before being officially named Immortals, and is loosely based on the Greek myths of Theseus and the Minotaur and the Titanomachy.

Principal photography started on April 5, 2010 in Montreal, and the film was released in 2D and in 3D (using the Real D 3D and Digital 3D formats) on November 11, 2011 by Universal Pictures and Relativity Media, receiving mixed reviews but became a commercial success at the box office.

Immortals (song)

"Immortals" is a song written and recorded by American rock band Fall Out Boy for the 2014 Walt Disney Animation Studios film Big Hero 6. An alternative version appears on the band's sixth studio album American Beauty/American Psycho (2015).

The "End Credits" single version was released by Walt Disney Records on October 14, 2014, as a digital download. A 7" vinyl bundled with a poster was released on December 16, 2014. As of February 8 2016, "Immortals" was certified Platinum by the RIAA for 1 million units sold.

Immortals (eSports)

Immortals is a professional eSports team based in the United States that was created on October 7, 2015. The team was formerly known as Team 8. They currently compete in the North American League of Legends Championship Series.

Usage examples of "immortals".

But that was the reason for Elvenhome: it was a place where human concerns did not come, where immortals could abandon themselves to their immortal griefs and turn to one another for sympathy and solace.

Kelly arose from her bed a few hours later, her eyes gleaming with the light of the stars among which she had been drifting, she found her father and her mother curled up together on the sofa, wandering down paths of ineffable radiance that held, for now, as much of assurance and nurture as Immortals could ever know.

But there was something in her expression that was new: a simultaneous passion, dispassion, and inexpressible joy that reached far back beyond her human birth, back to the time when the Lady had, with Her own hand, shaped the Immortals who would call this planet home.

In the name of the Immortals, from whom thou art descended, I ask thee, Bent-Anat, art thou clean, or hast thou, through the touch of the unclean, defiled thyself and contaminated thy royal hand?

Then he drew out the bond Nebsecht had given him, held it up with both hands, as if to show it to the Immortals, and particularly to the judges in the hall of truth and judgment, that they might not reckon with him for the crime he had committed--not for himself but for another--and that they might not refuse to justify Rui, whom he had robbed of his heart.

I heard the young priest from the House of Seti, I felt that, after all, the Immortals are good, and we have much to thank them for.

The Immortals will give you a new and a better son instead of the old one, but it is not revealed to me by what means.

I believe he is a child of the Gods that the Immortals have laid in my homely house.

I willingly leave it to them to be the mediators between the Immortals and me or my people.

Rameses, descending from his position, had, in the presence of them all, burned incense, and made a libation to the Gods, and his son Chamus had delivered to him, in the name of the Immortals, the symbols of life and power.

Rameses still believed that one of the Immortals had come to his rescue.

Thank Nefert--not me, and let us give thanks to the Immortals this day with especial fervor.

Tyndareus uprose, and lifted their hands to the immortals praying for each boon: but dejection held the rest of the Minyan heroes.

Surely they were of the blood of the immortals, such a task did they take on them, constrained by necessity.

None other of the immortals it was than he that gave thee this when he met thee.