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Battle of Marathon, The

By: Elizabeth Barrett Browning

...The Battle of Marathon is a rhymed, dramatic, narrative-poem by Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Written in 1820, it retells powerfully The Battle of Marathon: during which the Athenian state defeated the much larger invading force during the f...

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Lorenz on Leadership : Lessons on Effectively Leading People, Teams, and Organizations

By: General Stephen R. Lorenz USAF, Retired

...ting time reinventing the wheel. And reading, like any other leadership development, is a lifetime experience because, as he describes it, “Life is a marathon, not a 50-yard dash.”...

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The Butt

By: Jan De Raeymaeker

...life 41 Knee pop 42 Miserable weather 43 Mate of fate 44 Old Dublin anew 45 A ma 47 Dublin city marathon 48 ...

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Let the Water Rise and Other Stories

By: Matthew Burgos

... Found Mystery Purity Days Hope in Hell Wide, Blue Sea Ashes Knife and Hell Will You? Rivers Payback Owned Words Prayers Guitar Tunes Marathon Memories Saving Maeve The Way We Fall One Day Lies Gone Eternal Lives Goodbye I Love You Element Wooden Chair Dear Layla Blame Aviss Windowsill What We Are Two Hours Falling Thunders Burned Waiti...

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Dansand cu Siva : alcătuire modulară, eclectică și deconstructivistă

By: Sorin Nicolae Stefan

... zi și până n noapte Uf, făptura ceea... Cărări întunecate, singuri Catargul sfâșiat După seceriș La ce bun prietenii? În cerc, la Marathon O smulgere din tine, și atât... „Stabat mater dolorosa”... Ape noroioase ... ca o zdreanță Pădurea uscată „Dies irae” IV Năuci, prin Babilon Aripi de fată Cum am pornit la război î...

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Paradoxist Distiches

By: Florentin Smarandache

... ______ 41 REMEDY ___________ 41 CONFUSION ________ 41 RESEARCH _________ 41 TRAGICOMEDY (I) __ 41 TRAGICOMEDY (II) _ 41 CERTIFICATE ______ 41 MARATHON ________ 42 THE RAILWAY STATION _______________ 42 HISTORY __________ 42 SLOUCHY __________ 42 PARENTALLY ______ 42 ROLL CALL ________ 42 OBNUBILATION ____ 42 ECHO ______________ 42 THE PARADOXISM __ 43 IN C...

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The Point in the Heart

By: Rav Michael Laitman

...d our eyes to avoid truly seeing, we could run along with the crowd. This Marathon Has Run Its Course 1 5 but we have exhausted our strength. While... .................................................................... 12 this Marathon has run its course.................................................

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Honolulu Star Advertiser : Special Sunday Tabloid

By: Honolulu Star Advertiser

...kely be quite busy, as it is when any large event (for example, the Honolulu Marathon) takes place here. While inconveniences are inevitable, the Secr...

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7 Scorpions : Rebellion

By: Mike Saxton

... Eric was an extremely fast runner. He didn’t remember if he had ever run marathons, been a sprinter, or played any type of sport for that mater, bu...

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Words to Wright By

By: Robin Bayne

...ctions pull me away from the battle. A handsome actor, an intriguing plot, a marathon of one’s favorite TV show. And yet, paradoxically, it is often t...

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Class Heroes: A Class Apart

By: Stephen Henning

...as he started to speak he felt a wave of nausea. He felt as if he had just run a marathon and then played a game of football against Manchester Unit...

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Ades Web Magazine: Barcelona

By: Manuel Balossi

... houses in the eixAmple 65 B a r c e l o n a Ades web magazine bArcelonA mArAthon 66 B a r c e l o n a Ades web magazine pAsseig de grAciA 67 B a r...

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And Gulliver Returns Book V : My Visit to Singaling

By: Lemuel Gulliver XVI

...age. In Pakistan a woman was stripped and beaten after she organized some marathons in which women could compete with men. President Musharraf then ...

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Ades Web Magazine: Southern Florida

By: Manuel Balossi

...vernier ' 319 S o u t h e r n F l o r i d a Ades web magazine highwAy 1 - mArAthon ' 320 S o u t h e r n F l o r i d a Ades web magazine highwAy 1 -... ...ArAthon ' 320 S o u t h e r n F l o r i d a Ades web magazine highwAy 1 - mArAthon ' 321 S o u t h e r n F l o r i d a Ades web magazine highwAy 1 -...

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Died and Moved In

By: Christine Jones

...on earth can I sleep! My 33 body is exhausted yet my brain is still on a marathon. I find myself looking for logical explanations. Perhaps it’s a p... ...s life. Abbey Gibson had captured Gary’s heart and sent his hormones on a marathon. Steven so has a way with words; he’s as romantic as a wrestler p... ...my already heavy basket. What do they think this is going to be, a bloody marathon! I quickly remove them, placing the colourful items back on the s... ...d and the words slip out. “Pick a colour.” 111 CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE The sex marathon started in the lounge and led into the bedroom, where it is still... ...like it’s done the life clock ten times over yet your brain is still on a marathon. The caffeine addiction got the better of me and even though my e...

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And Gulliver Returns Book IV : A Look at Our Human Values

By: Lemuel Gulliver XVI

...sports that can increase death like boxing, cheerleading, auto racing and marathons? ―Was the worth of Winston Churchill, Mother Theresa or...

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Yellow on the Outside, Shame on the inside : Asian Culture Revealed

By: Chi, Anson

... stiff that a jackhammer won't be able to chisel it. I complete my hygienic marathon by putting on my outfit, to ultimately become the superhero kno... ... in jail. What most people don't know is that taking the MCAT is a day-long marathon. The entire exam is nearly six grueling hours and you thought t...

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An Apostate: Nawin of Thais

By: Steven David Justin Sills

...hey will be facing starvation in Laos shortly. Early death is like being a marathon winner, don't you think? Guys who starve to death are the true win... ...hen it occurred to him that he would need to give the same to all of these marathon contenders, but he did not have that much money in his wallet nor ... ...he past two decades of his life he would hardly be a record holder of this marathon either--not that spilling body fluids to say that one existed woul...

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New Life Incognita

By: Gracie C. Mckeever

... gasping for air and holding his side as if he had just finished running a marathon. Several EMS units and NYPD squad cars screeched to a halt at craz... ...rm and aromatic kitchen. No siblingly howls of "foul" and "cheater" over a marathon weekend Monopoly game. There was nothing except the disquieting qu...

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What Your Bank Doesn't Want You to Know : About Where to Invest Your Money

By: Lillian R. Villanova

..., Juneau, Kenosha, Kewaunee, La Crosse, Lafayette, Langlade, Lincoln, Manitowoc, Marathon, Marinette, Marquette, Menominee, Milwaukee, Monroe, Ocont...

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And Gulliver Returns Book VI : Our Psychological Motivations

By: Lemuel Gulliver XVI

...amous author and lecturer. Then there is Oscar Pistorius, the South African sprinter whose lower legs are metal and Pete Strudley who ran the marath...

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The Williams Record

By: Student Media

...unmolested." Hatchet Oration John Donahue Murphy 1907 alias " John Donahue Marathon Murjjhy, " the s] eaker who had al- ready proved his loiig-windedn... ...m Milos to Nau- phia, Epidaurus, Uimuium and Aegina, ending at Nathena and Marathon, will be described. The last lecture of the series will be given F...

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Theological Essays and Other Papers

By: Thomas de Quincey

...e most accurate of travellers, is a soldier; and in reviewing the field of Marathon, of Plataa, and others deriv- ing their interest from later wars, ... ...ut one will be sufficient. The Athenian painter who recorded the battle of Marathon in fresco upon the walls of a portico, was fined for representing ... ...led. [See the Acad. des Inscriptions, about the year 1725.] At the time of Marathon, fought against the Lieutenant of Darius, the Olympic games had ex... ...present. In the other direction, the logic of the Greek artist who painted Marathon is more cogent. The Persians were numerically superior, though dou... ...ever, on the whole, it seems undeniable that even at Platsea, much more at Marathon, the Persians had the advantage in numbers. If, besides this numer...

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An Essay on Comedy

By: George Meredith

...ter the catastrophe, the poet, who had ever been gazing back at the men of Marathon and Salamis, must have felt that he had foreseen it; and that he w...

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Plutarchs Lives Volume One

By: Hugh Clough

...ned money, and stamped it with the image of an ox, either in memory of the Marathonian bull, or of T au- rus, whom he vanquished, or else to put his p... ...d a herd of oxen which belonged to Theseus, and was driving them away from Marathon, and, when news was brought that Theseus pursued him in arms, he d... ...hat which is now called Academia was then named Echedemia, and the village Marathon had its name from the other, who, to fulfill some oracle, volun- t... ...he- nians to honor Theseus as a demigod, in the battle which was fought at Marathon against the Medes, many of the sol- diers believed they saw an app... ...84 V olume One actions, that, though he was still young when the battle of Marathon was fought against the Persians, upon the skillful conduct of the ... ...in, on the sixth of Boedromion, the Persians were worsted by the Greeks at Marathon; on the third, at Plataea, as also at Mycale; on the twenty-fifth,... ...ibes, and reached it the same day. Aristides, being left with his tribe at Marathon to guard the plunder and prisoners, did not disappoint the opinion... ...after Phaenippus, during whose term of office they obtained the victory of Marathon, Aristides is registered. Of all his virtues, the common people we... ... with no better arms or stouter hearts than those who fought the battle of Marathon; but had the same bows and arrows, and the same embroidered coats ...

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The Silverado Squatters

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

... – most, I think; and Mr. Schram has a great notion of the English taste. In this wild spot, I did not feel the sacredness of an- cient cultivation. I...

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The Volsunga Saga with Excerpts from the Poetic Edda Anonymous Old Norse and Icelandic Mythologies

By: William Morris

...st of our own history. Among battles, “every schoolboy” knows the story of Marathon or Salamis, while it would be hard indeed to find one who did more...

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Don Juan

By: George Byron

... Than your sires’ ‘Islands of the Blest.’ The mountains look on Marathon And Marathon looks on the sea; And musing the...

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The History Of

By: H. G. Wells

...f a mo’,” said Uncle Jim, taking his arm. “We ain’t do- ing a (sanguinary) Marathon. It ain’t a (decorated) cinder track. I want a word with you, mist...

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A Book of Golden Deeds

By: Charlotte Mary Yonge

...troops to be signally defeated upon the coast of Attica; but the losses at Marathon had but stimulated the Persian lust of conquest, and the new King ...

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Chronicles of the Canongate

By: Sir Walter Scott

...ommanded a body of troops at the battle of 22 Chronicles of the Canongate Marathon. Sophocles and Euripides were men of rank in Athens when Athens wa...

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The Odyssey

By: Homer

...country .” Then Minerva left Scheria and went away over the sea. She went to Marathon and to the spacious streets of Athens, where she entered the abo...

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The New Machiavelli

By: H. G. Wells

...What a fuss there would be when some well- trained boy, panting as if from Marathon, appeared with an evening paper! “I say, you chaps, Middlesex all ...

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The Odyssey of Homer

By: Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744

...ters wing’d her way; Forsaking Scheria’s ever pleasing shore, The winds to Marathon the virgin bore: Thence, where proud Athens rears her towery head,...

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Plutarchs Lives Volume Two

By: Hugh Clough

...with Anaximenes. This Archias finding Hyperides the orator, Aristonicus of Marathon, and Himeraeus, the brother of Demetrius the Phalerian, in Aegina,... ...ls, wrote to the people of Athens that this victory was “sister to that at Marathon.” And so may this action be very safely termed sister to those of ...

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The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley

By: Thomas Hutchinson

...e’s tempestuous dawn Freedom’s splendour burst and shone:— Thermopylae and Marathon Caught like mountains beacon-lighted, ...

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Ten Years Later

By: Alexandre Dumas

...her Nanette!” cried Friquet, suffocating; “ah! Mother Nanette!” He could say no more; but though he hadn’t strength to speak he had enough for action....

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Beauchamp's Career

By: George Meredith

...that their task-work was an idle labour. Dr. Shrapnel assisted in fighting Marathon and Salamis over again cor- dially—to shield Great Britain from th...

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Menexenus

By: Jowett, Benjamin, 1817-1893

... Isocrates and Demosthenes the Athenians were still living on the glories of Marathon and Salamis. The Menexenus veils in panegyric the weak places of... ...to tell the king that no one had escaped them. And from Eretria they went to Marathon with a like intention, expecting to bind the Athenians in the sa... ...now what manner of men they were who received the onset of the barbarians at Marathon, and chastened the pride of the whole of Asia, and by the victor... ...wn safety in the battles which en- sued: they became disciples of the men of Marathon. To them, therefore, I assign in my speech the first place, and ... ...ch appears to me to 13 Menexenus be the noblest, and which followed that of Marathon and came nearest to it; for the men of Marathon only showed the ... ...umbers, whether of ships or men, to cease among them. And so the soldiers of Marathon and the sailors of Salamis became the schoolmasters of Hellas; t... ...o give the assistance of the state, for she could not forget the trophies of Marathon and Salamis and Plataea; but she allowed exiles and volunteers t...

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The Children of the Night

By: Edwin Arlington Robinson

...re I go, — Melchizedek, Ucalegon. Villanelle of Change Since Persia fell at Marathon, The yellow years have gathered fast: Long centuries have come ... ...ey say) the place will don A phantom fury of the past, Since Persia fell at Marathon; And as of old, when Helicon T rembled and swayed with rapture ... ...when night comes on, Shakes to a ghostly battle blast, Since Persia fell at Marathon. But into soundless Acheron The glory of Greek shame was cast: ... ...as have all shone, The first has fallen to the last: — Since Persia fell at Marathon, Long centuries have come and gone. 16 E.A. Robinson John Evere... ... always ask 136 She’d look upon us, if she could, 143 Since Persia fell at Marathon, 15 Since you remember Nimmo, and arrive 102 Slowly I smoke an...

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The Gorgias

By: Jowett, Benjamin, 1817-1893

...les, adding the penalty of exile; and they voted that Miltiades, the hero of Marathon, should be thrown into the pit of death, and he was only saved b...

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The Republic

By: Plato

...ith the struggle for Hellenic independence, singing a hymn of triumph over Marathon and Salamis, perhaps making the reflection of Herodotus where he c...

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A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers

By: Henry David Thoreau

...d Arcadia and Tempe. Greece, who am I that should remember thee, Thy Marathon and thy Thermopylae? Is my life vulgar, my fate mean, Which ...

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