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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FEW AMERICANS noticed the advertisement that appeared in the New York newspapers on May 1, 1915. Signed by the Imperial

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IN THE closing weeks of the war, the Austro-Hungarian Empire came apart. Its subject peoples proclaimed their independence, through “national

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DURING THE war, three great empires — the Russian, the Austro-Hungarian and the German –had vanished forever. Then, by the

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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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