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Vicksburg High did not go quietly, but still had its 2025 football season end with a 42-19 loss to two-time defending state ...

During the Battle of Himera (480 BC), ancient Greek forces defeated Carthage, ensuring their dominance in the Mediterranean.

Oxford University classics scholar Kershaw (The Enemies of Rome) explores in this detailed and wide-ranging history the immediate and long-term impacts of the Persian Wars in ancient Greece. Drawing ...

Five years ago today-5 September 2020-marked a turning point in the history of Melbourne. For those who lived through it, more so than in any other Australian city, the intensity of our COVID-19 ...

“300” is a 2006 movie depicting the 480 B.C. Battle of Thermopylae where 300 Spartans, defenders of King Leonidas, along with another 1,100 or so allies held back Persian King Xerxes and his army of ...

> This year Greek archeologists have been exploring the site of Thermopylae, heroically defended in 480 B.C. by King Leonidas with 2.000 soldiers against Xerxes’ Persian hordes. Recently they found ...

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In 480 BC, 300 men fought against the invading Persian army in the mountain pass of Thermopylae. With no help from their Greek allies, the King of Sparta, Leonidas, blocked the hot gates with the ...

The legend of the 300 Spartans is one of the most thrilling in all of Ancient Greece. A small army against a billion guys? How ’bout it! Several movies have featured the story, but the 2006 version ...