The year is 480BC, and the Persians are invading Sparta.
The Persian army is marching through the hills of Sparta when they hear shouting from the other side of a nearby hill:
"I bet one Spartan can beat ten Persians!"
The Persian officer laughs at this and sends ten of his best soldiers to deal with this guy. After a couple of minutes of sc...
Xerxes I is the most successful carpet dealer.
He went to the West with a million Persians and came home with only a handful of them.
Pheidippides just doesn't have the same ring to it.
When Pheidippides, the soldier who ran 26.2 miles to the city of Marathon to announce the defeat of the Persians to the Athenians, found out the long-distance races were going to be called Marathons, he was a little upset...
But he ran with it.
Someone once asked me what my favorite Donald Trump quote was...
Well it'd have to be this one:
âLook, having nuclearâmy uncle was a great professor and scientist and engineer, Dr. John Trump at MIT; good genes, very good genes, OK, very smart, the Wharton School of Finance, very good, very smart âyou know, if youâre a conservative Republican, if I were a ...
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