In response a contingent of 300 Spartans and several thousand allies were sent to occupy the narrow mountain pass of Thermopylae, not far from the Greek fleet, that was anchored off the nearby ...

On March 14, 1941, in western North Dakota, the temperature suddenly dropped from 33 to 7 degrees below zero, and winds picked up to 40 mph. The Dickinson Press reported, “As sudden as the ...

“Hence, we will not say that Greeks fight like heroes, but that heroes fight like Greeks”.

The myth of Sparta’s martial prowess owes much of its power to a storied feat of heroism accomplished by Leonidas, king of Sparta and hero of the celebrated Battle of Thermopylae (480 B.C.). In ...