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Was just watching 300 yesterday. I think everyone knows the story of the 300 Spartans, standing against 1 million Persians, trapping them in a narrow pass and holding them off for several days to buy time.
But at the end of the film, the one guy who King Leonidas sent home to tell the story was stood in front of the entire Spartan army, ready for the final battle and he was like "if 300 Spartans can do that, just wait until these bastards see what 300,000 Spartans can do to them - and they only outnumber us 3 to 1 now, it's good odds".
I was wondering. What battle was this, at the end of the film? What was the real story (I know it's probably a legend more than history, in terms of the film version)? I know the Spartans won the war in the end and utter annihilated the Persians though, eventually, that much is true (but did it take several years?). -- 146.200.128.101 ( talk) 04:48, 24 March 2022 (UTC)
Greetings,
Please do help a little in suggesting/ expanding the list of erstwhile slave trading townships.
Thanks
Bookku, 'Encyclopedias = expanding information & knowledge' ( talk) 11:43, 24 March 2022 (UTC)
Many thanks to every one for various informative suggestions I will try to implement them as much possible.
Bookku, 'Encyclopedias = expanding information & knowledge' ( talk) 16:40, 24 March 2022 (UTC)
@ Alansplodge, I asked at this forum for not missing the names, thanks for being helpful.
Bookku, 'Encyclopedias = expanding information & knowledge' ( talk) 03:16, 25 March 2022 (UTC)
As a *general* concept, in what areas of the world was a significant amount of the physical historical record destroyed by Europeans or their descendants? To try to come up with a more complete example... As I understand it, for the culture that existed in northern Saskatchewan Canada in the year 100 CE, there were not a large number of physical artifacts that would have existed about that culture in 1400 CE (prior to the Europeans) and as such there weren't many to be destroyed by Europeans. I'm looking for places where there were likely to have been such physical artifacts but aren't as of today. Naraht ( talk) 13:31, 24 March 2022 (UTC)
"Ethnic cleansing" can include the obliteration of graveyards, which contain much historical information, for instance by the Serbs in the Bosnian war. This report [1] suggests Vladimir Putin has taken a leaf out of Al Jolson's playbook, so there may be a lot more where that came from [2]. 92.31.142.60 ( talk) 15:32, 26 March 2022 (UTC)
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Was just watching 300 yesterday. I think everyone knows the story of the 300 Spartans, standing against 1 million Persians, trapping them in a narrow pass and holding them off for several days to buy time.
But at the end of the film, the one guy who King Leonidas sent home to tell the story was stood in front of the entire Spartan army, ready for the final battle and he was like "if 300 Spartans can do that, just wait until these bastards see what 300,000 Spartans can do to them - and they only outnumber us 3 to 1 now, it's good odds".
I was wondering. What battle was this, at the end of the film? What was the real story (I know it's probably a legend more than history, in terms of the film version)? I know the Spartans won the war in the end and utter annihilated the Persians though, eventually, that much is true (but did it take several years?). -- 146.200.128.101 ( talk) 04:48, 24 March 2022 (UTC)
Greetings,
Please do help a little in suggesting/ expanding the list of erstwhile slave trading townships.
Thanks
Bookku, 'Encyclopedias = expanding information & knowledge' ( talk) 11:43, 24 March 2022 (UTC)
Many thanks to every one for various informative suggestions I will try to implement them as much possible.
Bookku, 'Encyclopedias = expanding information & knowledge' ( talk) 16:40, 24 March 2022 (UTC)
@ Alansplodge, I asked at this forum for not missing the names, thanks for being helpful.
Bookku, 'Encyclopedias = expanding information & knowledge' ( talk) 03:16, 25 March 2022 (UTC)
As a *general* concept, in what areas of the world was a significant amount of the physical historical record destroyed by Europeans or their descendants? To try to come up with a more complete example... As I understand it, for the culture that existed in northern Saskatchewan Canada in the year 100 CE, there were not a large number of physical artifacts that would have existed about that culture in 1400 CE (prior to the Europeans) and as such there weren't many to be destroyed by Europeans. I'm looking for places where there were likely to have been such physical artifacts but aren't as of today. Naraht ( talk) 13:31, 24 March 2022 (UTC)
"Ethnic cleansing" can include the obliteration of graveyards, which contain much historical information, for instance by the Serbs in the Bosnian war. This report [1] suggests Vladimir Putin has taken a leaf out of Al Jolson's playbook, so there may be a lot more where that came from [2]. 92.31.142.60 ( talk) 15:32, 26 March 2022 (UTC)