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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IT TOOK the work of many inventors to bring about the changes of the Industrial Revolution, but the man recognized

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THE ENGLISH regarded themselves as a free people — but they did not seem to believe in freedom for others.

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WHILE THE Industrial Revolution was transforming England and creating a new kind of society, the continent of Europe seemed to

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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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