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Forum: Bored with life or work? THIS is the *FUN* place to be! Topic: This YEAR IN HISTORY. |
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Posted: Sat Dec 24, 2011 20:35:44 pm
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| 395 BCE The "Corinthian War" begins, with Athens, Thebes, Corinth and Argos (with the backing of Persia) against Sparta. The Spartans prepare to send out an army against this new alliance, and order Agesilaus to return to Greece. Agesilaus sets out for Sparta with his troops, crossing the ... |
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Forum: Bored with life or work? THIS is the *FUN* place to be! Topic: Counting up in square numbers |
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Posted: Sat Dec 24, 2011 20:31:23 pm
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Forum: Bored with life or work? THIS is the *FUN* place to be! Topic: Counting up in prime numbers |
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Posted: Sat Dec 24, 2011 20:26:42 pm
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Forum: Bored with life or work? THIS is the *FUN* place to be! Topic: Counting in BINARY |
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Posted: Sat Dec 24, 2011 20:25:31 pm
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Forum: Bored with life or work? THIS is the *FUN* place to be! Topic: Counting up in prime numbers |
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Posted: Fri Dec 23, 2011 07:09:52 am
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Forum: Bored with life or work? THIS is the *FUN* place to be! Topic: This YEAR IN HISTORY. |
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Posted: Fri Dec 23, 2011 07:04:29 am
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393 BCE
Aristophanes' play, a new comedy called The Ecclesiazusae, is performed.
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Forum: Bored with life or work? THIS is the *FUN* place to be! Topic: Counting up in prime numbers |
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Posted: Fri Dec 23, 2011 07:01:33 am
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Forum: Bored with life or work? THIS is the *FUN* place to be! Topic: Counting in BINARY |
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Posted: Fri Dec 23, 2011 06:59:15 am
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Forum: Bored with life or work? THIS is the *FUN* place to be! Topic: This YEAR IN HISTORY. |
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Posted: Thu Dec 22, 2011 10:24:10 am
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| 391 BCE The Athenian general, Iphicrates, with a force composed almost entirely of light troops and peltasts (javelin throwers), wins a decisive victory against the Spartan regiment that has been stationed at Lechaeum in the Battle of Lechaeum. This is the first time that a force of light infantry ... |
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Forum: Bored with life or work? THIS is the *FUN* place to be! Topic: Counting up in prime numbers |
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Posted: Thu Dec 22, 2011 10:20:09 am
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Forum: Bored with life or work? THIS is the *FUN* place to be! Topic: Counting in BINARY |
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Posted: Thu Dec 22, 2011 10:18:43 am
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Symmetry = Palindromic
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Forum: Bored with life or work? THIS is the *FUN* place to be! Topic: Counting up in square numbers |
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Posted: Thu Dec 22, 2011 10:17:30 am
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Forum: Bored with life or work? THIS is the *FUN* place to be! Topic: Counting by Fibonacci Numbers (if you can) |
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Posted: Thu Dec 22, 2011 10:16:42 am
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| 3,β573,β738,β143,β885,β559,β459,β576,β277,β059,β838,β545,β923,β766,β193,β315,β082,β427,β297,β305,β196,β759,β414,β595,β291,β151,β234,β536,β087,β083,β019,β631,β488,β005,β869,β345,β070,β035,β543,β779,β127,β810,β449,β716,β730,β965,β436,β621 |
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Forum: Bored with life or work? THIS is the *FUN* place to be! Topic: Counting up in prime numbers |
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Posted: Wed Dec 21, 2011 09:36:45 am
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Forum: Bored with life or work? THIS is the *FUN* place to be! Topic: This YEAR IN HISTORY. |
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Posted: Wed Dec 21, 2011 09:35:58 am
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| 389 BCE Wu Qi, the Prime Minister of the State of Chu, enacts his first series of political, municipal, and martial reforms. Wu Qi gains the ire and distrust of Chu officials and aristocratic elite who are against his crusades to sweep up corruption in the state and limit their power. He is eventual... |
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Forum: Bored with life or work? THIS is the *FUN* place to be! Topic: Counting up in square numbers |
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Posted: Wed Dec 21, 2011 09:33:01 am
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Forum: Bored with life or work? THIS is the *FUN* place to be! Topic: Counting in BINARY |
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Posted: Wed Dec 21, 2011 09:31:40 am
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Forum: Bored with life or work? THIS is the *FUN* place to be! Topic: This YEAR IN HISTORY. |
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Posted: Tue Dec 20, 2011 17:47:23 pm
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| 387 BCE Plato is forced by Dionysius to leave Syracuse (Sicily) after having exercised the right of free speech too broadly. Plato returns to Athens, outside which he founds a school - the Platonic Academy - , where he taught Aristotle until 347 BC. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thum... |
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Forum: Bored with life or work? THIS is the *FUN* place to be! Topic: Counting by Fibonacci Numbers (if you can) |
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Posted: Tue Dec 20, 2011 17:43:58 pm
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Fair enough!
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Forum: You ask the questions - SOMEONE will have the answers! Topic: Australian Air Mail Society Catalogue - Purchase Options |
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Posted: Tue Dec 20, 2011 17:28:28 pm
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kugelpost wrote: Tell me, are some or all of the photos in the 8th edition in color? I gather the photos in the 6th edition are black/white. 
No, they are in black and white.
That said, they are far better resolution than the earlier editions.
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Forum: Bored with life or work? THIS is the *FUN* place to be! Topic: Counting by Fibonacci Numbers (if you can) |
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Posted: Tue Dec 20, 2011 09:45:09 am
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You skipped one Gutters!
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Forum: Bored with life or work? THIS is the *FUN* place to be! Topic: Counting in BINARY |
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Posted: Tue Dec 20, 2011 09:43:22 am
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Forum: You ask the questions - SOMEONE will have the answers! Topic: Australian Air Mail Society Catalogue - Purchase Options |
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Posted: Tue Dec 20, 2011 07:24:58 am
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| kugelpost , I have every edition of the Australian Air Mail Catalogue since the first publication in 1937. Every edition has benefited from the previous edition. The only reason to buy the 6th edition over the current edition is that the 7th edition dropped the Pacific flights and the Hovercraft Ma... |
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Forum: Bored with life or work? THIS is the *FUN* place to be! Topic: This YEAR IN HISTORY. |
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Posted: Mon Dec 19, 2011 10:23:09 am
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385 BCE
Democritus announces that the Milky Way is composed of many stars.
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Forum: Bored with life or work? THIS is the *FUN* place to be! Topic: Counting in BINARY |
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Posted: Mon Dec 19, 2011 10:19:23 am
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Forum: Bored with life or work? THIS is the *FUN* place to be! Topic: Counting up in prime numbers |
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Posted: Mon Dec 19, 2011 10:19:04 am
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Forum: Bored with life or work? THIS is the *FUN* place to be! Topic: Counting by Fibonacci Numbers (if you can) |
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Posted: Mon Dec 19, 2011 10:18:21 am
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| 322,β243,β767,β409,β511,β377,β996,β442,β898,β124,β980,β028,β146,β053,β329,β132,β633,β699,β011,β731,β476,β979,β859,β617,β917,β967,β681,β246,β287,β845,β081,β939,β810,β156,β089,β965,β167,β294,β206,β284,β633,β082,β153,β797,β620,β891,β457 |
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Forum: Bored with life or work? THIS is the *FUN* place to be! Topic: Counting up in square numbers |
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Posted: Mon Dec 19, 2011 10:17:44 am
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Forum: Bored with life or work? THIS is the *FUN* place to be! Topic: Counting by Fibonacci Numbers (if you can) |
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Posted: Fri Dec 16, 2011 13:48:10 pm
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| 199,β157,β600,β921,β893,β687,β120,β946,β774,β967,β741,β139,β719,β553,β336,β404,β271,β541,β042,β268,β988,β715,β143,β669,β561,β498,β617,β223,β356,β051,β795,β193,β904,β924,β125,β069,β739,β438,β025,β770,β149,β158,β497,β269,β999,β660,β993 |
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Forum: Bored with life or work? THIS is the *FUN* place to be! Topic: Counting in BINARY |
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Posted: Fri Dec 16, 2011 13:46:04 pm
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Forum: NO question is too basic or silly - you ask - we WILL help you with it! Topic: 'Ask the Grumpy Old Men's Club A Question' thread. |
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Posted: Fri Dec 16, 2011 13:37:54 pm
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waroff49 wrote: What did you say PeteR? Did you say, "Throw in the bate and see what you catch?"
I think you will find that is bait, Bill.... |
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Forum: You ask the questions - SOMEONE will have the answers! Topic: "On piece" or ?... |
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Posted: Fri Dec 16, 2011 13:33:15 pm
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| They were all carefully opened, not just at the top but carefully slit down both sides as well so basically still joined along the cover bottom. .... So what would YOU call them :?: Ummm, .... a cover opened on three sides.... :?: I have often seen that description used in auction catalogues with &... |
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Forum: Bored with life or work? THIS is the *FUN* place to be! Topic: This YEAR IN HISTORY. |
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Posted: Fri Dec 16, 2011 10:19:12 am
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383 BCE
The 19 year lunar cycle is introduced into the Babylonian calendar.
 Avebury 2005 showed both solar and lunar azimuths to illustrate a 19-year astronomical cycle of the Moon |
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Forum: Bored with life or work? THIS is the *FUN* place to be! Topic: Counting in BINARY |
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Posted: Fri Dec 16, 2011 09:56:13 am
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Forum: Bored with life or work? THIS is the *FUN* place to be! Topic: Counting by Fibonacci Numbers (if you can) |
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Posted: Fri Dec 16, 2011 09:55:51 am
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| 123,β086,β166,β487,β617,β690,β875,β496,β123,β157,β238,β888,β426,β499,β992,β728,β362,β157,β969,β462,β488,β264,β715,β948,β356,β469,β064,β022,β931,β793,β286,β745,β905,β231,β964,β895,β427,β856,β180,β514,β483,β923,β656,β527,β621,β230,β464 |
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Forum: Bored with life or work? THIS is the *FUN* place to be! Topic: Counting up in prime numbers |
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Posted: Fri Dec 16, 2011 09:54:02 am
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Forum: Bored with life or work? THIS is the *FUN* place to be! Topic: Counting up in square numbers |
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Posted: Fri Dec 16, 2011 09:53:31 am
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Forum: 'The Water Cooler' - A relaxing and FUN place to let off some steam ...... Topic: Funny Jokes - SLIGHTLY *Broad Minded* readers only please |
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Posted: Thu Dec 15, 2011 11:27:43 am
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| A 70 year old woman went to the doctor for a check up. The doctor told her she needed more activity & recommended sex three times a week. She said to the doctor , "Please, tell to my husband". The doctor goes out in the waiting room & tells the husband that his wife needs to have s... |
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Forum: Bored with life or work? THIS is the *FUN* place to be! Topic: Counting up in prime numbers |
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Posted: Thu Dec 15, 2011 11:24:33 am
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Forum: 'The Water Cooler' - A relaxing and FUN place to let off some steam ...... Topic: Post your Best "YouTube" Video of the Day |
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Posted: Thu Dec 15, 2011 11:22:04 am
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Forum: Bored with life or work? THIS is the *FUN* place to be! Topic: This YEAR IN HISTORY. |
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Posted: Wed Dec 14, 2011 09:52:59 am
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381 BCE
Wu Qi, Chinese military general, Prime Minister of the State of Chu, also a servant of the State of Lu (born in Wei) dies.
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Forum: Bored with life or work? THIS is the *FUN* place to be! Topic: Counting by Fibonacci Numbers (if you can) |
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Posted: Wed Dec 14, 2011 09:52:53 am
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| 47,β014,β732,β053,β341,β694,β630,β045,β471,β346,β736,β637,β133,β446,β649,β052,β452,β774,β896,β655,β987,β814,β288,β227,β151,β439,β510,β822,β507,β534,β778,β297,β905,β539,β804,β721,β116,β274,β335,β258,β818,β688,β815,β785,β242,β799,β935 |
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Forum: Bored with life or work? THIS is the *FUN* place to be! Topic: Counting up in square numbers |
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Posted: Wed Dec 14, 2011 09:52:17 am
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Forum: Bored with life or work? THIS is the *FUN* place to be! Topic: Counting in BINARY |
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Forum: Bored with life or work? THIS is the *FUN* place to be! Topic: Counting up in prime numbers |
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Posted: Wed Dec 14, 2011 09:51:22 am
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Forum: You ask the questions - SOMEONE will have the answers! Topic: W.A.S.P. 1935 Sydney to Narromine First Flight Covers |
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Posted: Tue Dec 13, 2011 13:37:27 pm
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| Currently at work, so only relying on the grey matter... :? Why was the air service inaugurated? Will have to wait until I get home for this one as I believe that there was a prior service in order to get Christmas mails to Sydney in enough time. This was a flight by New England Airways ... How long... |
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Forum: Bored with life or work? THIS is the *FUN* place to be! Topic: Counting up in prime numbers |
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Posted: Tue Dec 13, 2011 12:52:33 pm
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Forum: Bored with life or work? THIS is the *FUN* place to be! Topic: Counting in BINARY |
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Posted: Tue Dec 13, 2011 12:51:50 pm
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Forum: Bored with life or work? THIS is the *FUN* place to be! Topic: Counting up in square numbers |
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Posted: Tue Dec 13, 2011 12:51:35 pm
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Forum: Bored with life or work? THIS is the *FUN* place to be! Topic: This YEAR IN HISTORY. |
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Posted: Tue Dec 13, 2011 12:50:41 pm
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| 379 BCE A small group of Theban exiles, led by Pelopidas, infiltrate the city of Thebes and assassinate the leaders of the pro-Spartan government. Epaminondas and Gorgidas lead a group of young men who break into the city's armories, take weapons, and surround the Spartans on the Cadmea, assisted by... |
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