The Greek hoplites, ountnumbered at least 20,000 to 10,000 at Marathon, had to attack the Persians early in the day. They were basically done slaughtering them by about 9 a.m. which gave them time to run 25 miles back to Athens to protect it from invading Persian ships. The famous "marathon run" was not made by Phedipides. Instead, the Greek army made the run. Phedipedes did however run from Athens to Sparta, about 140 miles, to implore them for help. That, amazingly, took him about a day-and-a-half one-way. The Spartans, being sticklers for religious observation, said they'd come help fight when the moon was right. 6,400 Persians will killed at Marathon, while the wildly outnumbered Greeks lost 192 men and their allies the Plataeans lost 11.
Knowledge is constantly subject to revision. Belief, not so much.
Everyone must drink their own tea. But the cat you pet belongs to no one.
Twenty-six out of the approximately 8,600 species of birds use tools. Even then only a few individual birds have been observed to do so. Good for them.
The Greeks made a thorough counting of Persian bodies on the Marathon plains because they had promised the goddess Athena that they would sacrifice a goat for every enemy soldier killed. 6,400 was way too many, so they made arrangements to offer the goats on an installment plan of 500 per year. That's still a lot of goats.
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Just wondering if the cat being petted is schroedinger's cat? Alive and not alive at the same time! Not like the goats who were alive until sacrificed.
Speaking of birds: I see the CBC has a supposedly-great documentary on crows. I've always been fascinated by them.
I like your attitude towards our feline service providers.
I found your site via Cruikshank;
I went to DS at the same time
and decided to blog about it.
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