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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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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