Busch falls short of NASCAR history in trucks race

Kyle Busch came up five spots short in his bid to make NASCAR history Saturday night and Johnny Benson took advantage, holding off Michael Annett to win the Built Ford Tough 225 at Kentucky Speedway.

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The UEFA Champions League enters uncharted territory this week when the new format of the third qualifying round gets under way with the likes of FC Shakhtar Donetsk, Celtic FC and Sporting Clube de Portugal joining the fray.

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Should U.S. Presidents Be Put On Trial Automatically When Their Term Ends?

Long ago, Sparta had a law that all Spartan government officials had to be put on criminal trial after their term(s) in office had ended.

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The ancient path of 'lithagogia' (the conveyance of stone), which was the actual road leading from the marble quarries of Penteli in Athens, revealed in Chalandri from the E th Ephorate of Prehistoric and Classical Antiquities, chaired by Joanne Drakotou.

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Sparta, for better or worse, is a 'brand', not just a name.

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Sparta volume 4 no. 1 > Discovering Ancient Spartan and Greek History > Markoulakis Publications have produced the first issue of the forth volume (volume 4 no. 1) of the printed and online educational periodical entitled Sparta (ISSN 1751-0007).

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Maybe the movie 300 left a little bit out.

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On Saturday, American ultramarathon runner Scott Jurek once again followed in the footsteps of legendary messenger Pheidippides and successfully defended his Spartathlon title.

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It is the first attempt - on my knowledge - to analytical present the ancient Tagean army. I used any source available!

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An excellent spoof of the scene between King Leonidas and Persian diplomats from the movie 300.

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A small article which answers the question of the Spartan hoplites' helmet use at Thermopylae and / or from the late fifth century B.C.E.

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SPARTA, Greece: There's a shortage of swords in Sparta. Greek merchants from Athens to Thermopylae are also concerned about a scarcity of spears as they prepare for summer visitors obsessed with the hit film "300," the gory story of the 480 B.C.

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The History Channel, on April, present us with its new -impressive I must confess- documentary on Thermopylae (c. 480), entitled The Last Stand of The 300 where known authors and scholars, once again, presents us with the facts of this famous battle.

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The Doric Greeks of Crete and Sparta developed a highly intricate and complex government form that best applied the principles of the Natural Order to bring about stability, longevity and effective government in a hostile world.

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300

Is it May already? 300 is a movie that in any year could be a summer staple film, being used as a launching point for the summer movie season.

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Some time ago an army was dispatched over seas under the banner of crusading democracy. It would break the back of tyranny, and also secure untold riches and resources, the politician in charge promised.

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According to the neoconservatives, we're involved in an epic struggle. This handful of men (probably no more than 300 of them), pushed a bright, shining war on a dim yahoo of a president.

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In what foreign policy experts believe to be a direct response to the hit American movie "300," Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad today declared war on Sparta.

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A WEEK ago Friday, moments before an opening-day showing of the movie "300" at Seattle's Cinerama, a 20-something moviegoer rushed to the front of the theater, dropped his shoulders, curled his arms into a mock-Schwarzenegger pose and bellowed out a timeless remark of King  …

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300: An Instant Classic

I've always been a huge movie buff when it comes to the historical events of wars that happened many years ago whether it was the Romans or the people from Troy.

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I remember seeing the clunky, emotional Richard Egan vehicle "The 300 Spartans" in a Washington movie theater when I was a little boy. Egan, of course, played Leonidas, the Spartan king who fought and died with troops. It was "Spartacus" on the cheap.

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The second issue of the celebrated Sparta Journal - magazine.

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And yes, "evil" in the truest sense of the word. This was written during World War 2, but is still relevant today. Never forget that, as Jefferson so apty put it, government is nothing but a necessary evil.

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The buzz has been good on director Zack Snyder's film "300", about the last stand at Thermopylae of 300 Spartan soldiers during the Persian Wars, based on the graphic novel by Frank Miller. The official trailer for the film has now been released on the net.

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Dustin King, 18, will be the first in his family to attend college. He wants to be a math teacher.

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