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of their arrival, they sent a swift runner, Pheidippides, to ask Sparta for aid, but the Spartans, who were conducting a religious festival, could not march until the moon was full. Meanwhile the small Athenian army encamped in the foothills on the edge of the Marathon
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Category: /Society & Culture/People
, Burr ran on the Republican ticket for vice president, with Thomas Jefferson as president. The way the election was done back then, the person with the highest votes would become President, with the runner-up becoming Vice- President. In a normal election
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Category: /Recreation & Sports
of Texas. I had several awards and records through out my carrier. For example, from kindergarten until my twelfth grade year in high school I was a nine time Texas State Champion, two-time runner up and took third one year. The year that I took third
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by rushing for a school-record 224 yards on 39 carries and two touchdowns. In his seventh game, he passed the 1,000-yard mark faster than any other runner in college football history. Payton and Smith also set records at the NFL level. Walter Payton held
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Category: /History
was so impressive to the leaders of both the Union and the Confederacy, that they contracted their Naval yards to have more ironclad ships built. Additions to the Confederate fleet included the CSS Tennessee, a 209 foot long blockade runner with four broadside
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Category: /Literature/English
more thoroughly that morning. After my class had started and I was starting to calm down, an office runner came in, to my great surprise, with my bloomers. My mother noticed I had forgotten them and was worried something embarrassing could happen. She had
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Category: /Recreation & Sports
need to consider the ramifications of where you are going to throw it. If you throw to first a runner could get home, throwing home is an option but in the case of an overthrow you could end up giving away more runs then necessary.
Baseball is indeed
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Category: /Literature/English
and the cosmopolitan Habsburg monarchy.
In May 1913 Hitler left Vienna for Munich and, when war broke out in August 1914, he joined the Sixteenth Bavarian Infantry Regiment, serving as a despatch runner. Hitler proved an able, courageous soldier, receiving the Iron Cross
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time. Two years later he won his fourth championship by beating out runner-up Tom Sneva by 13 points. In the same year he won the CART title by getting six victories and had nine poles in his 16 starts. At 51, Andretti competed against his 2 sons, Jeff
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Category: /Science & Technology/Internet
and attaching this key to the end of the file. For example, say a person downloads the latest Metallica CD, the front-runner for putting Napster out of business, from Columbia House Records. Columbia House would use the rights protection system to send an encrypted
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