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Running and marathons
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1. Running and marathons
Olympic rings Marathon sticker 26.2 Running sticker 0.0
Ancient Olympic distance running was from 1 to 3 miles.

2. Running races

Modern running races are social events were everyone enjoys the race at their own pace while a few fast runners compete somewhere way up front.

3. Modern Olympics
The modern Olympics were started in Greece in 1896.

The marathon running event was established based on the ancient battle of Marathon

4. Patton
DVD: Patton
George Patton had the nickname "Old blood and guts".

His movie was very popular at the West Point movie theater in the late 1970's.
Patton competed in the modern pentathlon in the 1912 Summer Olympics in Stockholm, Sweden. [tanks and Uncle Blaine]

His grandfather, George Patton Sr. (1833-1864) was a Confederate colonel during the Civil War.

The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his. George S. Patton (American General in World War II)

In 1943, Patton slapped two soldiers during the Sicily campaign. By contrast, the Soviet Army placed little if no value on human life.

He saw them as shirking duty as they had no visible injuries. The United States Press made it a huge incident. Many wanted him out of the Army, but Eisenhower (and others) knew they needed him as a commander.

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5. Persian invasions of Greece
2000 Chaldea, Abraham
1300 Egypt, Moses
1200 Trojan War, Ruth
1000 David, Solomon
750 Assyria, Nineveh, Jonah
540 Babylon, Daniel, Persia
444 Xerxes, Nehemiah
The old Persian Empire, from Daniel at the time of the "writing on the wall" about 540 BC. until Alexander the Great destroyed it 200 years later, 333 BC, stretched from Egypt to Asia Minor to Afghanistan and India.

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6. Persian invasions


492-490 BC : 1st Persian invasion, Battle of Marathon
483-473 BC : Esther and Xerxes at Susa
Movie: 300 Spartans

480-479 BC : 2nd Persian Invasion, Battle of Thermopylae (300 Spartans), Salamis (naval battle)


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