This striking difference in the way Athens and Sparta treated their victorious athletes reflects a striking difference between the states

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At Olympia every four years Olympic games were held in which any Greek was entitled to take part. It is

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The Delphic oracle, the priestess of Apollo, was supposed to have the gift of prophecy. The Delphic Oracle was consulted

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EVEN AFTER IT HAPPENED, few people in colonial Boston knew the boy’s name. He was just a barber’s helper, but

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There had been few serious misunderstandings between the colonies and the mother country before the French and Indian War, but

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Another unpopular step England took after the war was to reorganize her defense system in the colonies. The French and

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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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