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12 hours ago · A second reason is the example it set of free men, fighting for their country and their freedom: So almost immediately, contemporary Greeks saw Thermopylae as a critical moral and culture lesson. In universal terms, a small, free people had willingly outfought huge numbers of imperial subjects who advanced under the lash.
- Battle of Thermopylae in Popular Culture
Leonidas at Thermopylae, 1814 painting by Jacques-Louis...
- Battle of Thermopylae (Disambiguation)
The Battle of Thermopylae was a battle fought in 480 BC...
- Kolonos Hill
Printable version Coordinates : 38°47′46″N 22°32′21″E / ...
- Ephialtes of Trachis
Ephialtes (/ ˌ ɛ f i ˈ æ l t iː z /; Greek: Ἐφιάλτης,...
- Battle of Mycale
The Battle of Mycale (Ancient Greek: Μάχη τῆς Μυκάλης; Machē...
- Battle of Salamis
The Battle of Salamis (/ ˈ s æ l ə m ɪ s / SAL-ə-miss) was a...
- Battle of Marathon
The Battle of Marathon took place in 490 BC during the first...
- Hoplites
A Greek hoplite. Hoplites (/ ˈ h ɒ p l aɪ t s / HOP-lytes)...
- List of Last Stands
An illustration of the Battle of Thermopylae by John Steeple...
- Demophilus of Thespiae
Demophilos is immortalised in many books and movies. In the...
- Battle of Thermopylae in Popular Culture
12 hours ago · Edward Dickens. Signature. Charles John Huffam Dickens ( / ˈdɪkɪnz /; 7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870) was an English novelist and social critic who created some of the world's best-known fictional characters, and is regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. [1]
- Novelist
- 9 June 1870 (aged 58), Higham, Kent, England
- Charles John Huffam Dickens, 7 February 1812, Portsmouth, England
- Ellen Ternan (1857–1870, his death)
12 hours ago · Red is Long Stories. [4] [5] Doraemon (ドラえもん) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Fujiko F. Fujio. The manga was first serialized in December 1969. Its chapters were collected in 45 tankōbon volumes published by Shogakukan from 1974 to 1996.
- Tentōmushi Comics
- Shogakukan
- 1969 – 1997
- Fujiko F. Fujio
12 hours ago · Pacifism. A peace sign, which is widely associated with pacifism. World Day of Prayer for Peace in Assisi, 2011. Pacifism is the opposition or resistance to war, militarism (including conscription and mandatory military service) or violence.
12 hours ago · United Kingdom portal. v. t. e. The history of the United Kingdom began in the early eighteenth century with the Treaty of Union and Acts of Union. The core of the United Kingdom as a unified state came into being in 1707 with the political union of the kingdoms of England and Scotland, [1] into a new unitary state called Great Britain.
12 hours ago · Music is the arrangement of sound to create some combination of form, harmony, melody, rhythm, or otherwise expressive content. [1] [2] [3] However, definitions of music vary depending on culture, [4] though it is an aspect of all human societies and a cultural universal. [5]
12 hours ago · e. English is a West Germanic language in the Indo-European language family, whose speakers, called Anglophones, originated in early medieval England. [4] [5] [6] The namesake of the language is the Angles, one of the ancient Germanic peoples that migrated to the island of Great Britain.
