One of the young Athenians who must have taken a good deal of interest in Draco’s writing down of the

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The legend of Theseus and the Minotaur suggests that Athens had dealings with Crete during the Minoan and Mycenaean Ages.

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A Spartan child was examined at birth. A healthy infant was allowed to live. Weaklings were not wanted. They were

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ON ROME’S first day, Romulus took a bronze plow and drew a magic circle around seven of the hills that

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IT WAS the Sunday before Passover. The soft greens of spring and patches of wild flowers brightened the hills above

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Toledo falls and this marks the beginning of the end of Islam in Spain. A triumph for orthodoxy The events

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