series of the same name by Frank Miller and Lynn Varley. The movie takes place in ancient Greece, recounting the battle of Thermopylae, between Spartan and Persian. The story revolves around King Leonidas (Gerard Butler) and Queen Gorgo (Lena Heady). The movie lasts for 117 minutes and spends 65 million dollars for the budget. The movie begins one year after the main story, the famed battle of Thermopylae, as Dilios (David Wenham) starts talking to his fellow warriors. As the character and also the
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Bayeux has successful entrepreneurs and talented scholars. It based on two groups of men who owed his triumph to his support: those who clenched the land from him in his earldom of Kent and persons whose legendary education he nurtured. At the Battle of Hastings, immediately after the English have prevented a cavalry charge, the Normans are pressured by this last cause as Odo twirled his marshal’s baton, reassuring his troops. He was high minded, very conquered with world insignificances, where
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Bayeux has successful entrepreneurs and talented scholars. It based on two groups of men who owed his triumph to his support: those who clenched the land from him in his earldom of Kent and persons whose legendary education he nurtured. At the Battle of Hastings, immediately after the English have prevented a cavalry charge, the Normans are pressured by this last cause as Odo twirled his marshal’s baton, reassuring his troops. He was high minded, very conquered with world insignificances, where
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militant themes showed that the increasing distress of the Russian people at the hands of the invading French. The atmosphere started to be tense when woodwind and brass instruments joined the strings, it seemed that the war was declared, the Battle of Borodino. The oboe, clarinets and flutes had alternate interactions with double basses, with a lot of brass instruments and percussions as the support of the piece, I could feel that how chaotic the situation in Russia was and how tiring the soldiers
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Cleopatra (1963) More at IMDbPro » In 48 B.C., Caesar pursues Pompey from Pharsalia to Egypt. Ptolemy, now supreme ruler after deposing his older sister, Cleopatra, attempts to gain favor with Caesar by presenting the conquerer with the head of Pompey, borne by his governors, Pothinos and Achillas. To win Caesar's support from her brother, Cleopatra hides herself in a rug, which Apollodorus, her servant, presents to Caesar. The Roman is immediately infatuated; banishing Ptolemy, he declares Cleopatra
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In military tactics, a flanking maneuver, or flanking manoeuvre (also called a flank attack), is an attack on the sides of an opposing force. If a flanking maneuver succeeds, the opposing force would be surrounded from two or more directions, which significantly reduces the maneuverability of the outflanked force and its ability to defend itself. A psychological advantage may also be present, as the confusion and threat from multiple directions is often problematic for morale. An ambush is a long-established
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Hippias and were determined for a change. The rival leaders for political power were “Isagoras, son of Tisander, a partisan of the tyrants and Clesithenes who belonged to the family of the Alcmenidea. Cleisthenes was beginning to lose the political battle after Isagoras getting the Archonship in 508 BC, he decided to appeal to the masses and put forward a measure by which all free people in Attica should be legally placed on the citizen roles. This alarmed Isagoras who, after appealing to King Cleomenes
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The novel The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara is the day-by-day story of our nation's most deadly and valiant battle, the battle of Gettysburg. It is told in the point of view of soldiers from both sides of the war and describes the emotion and experiences that each character went, though. The character Joshua Lawrence Chamberlin is the main voice of the Union and most relatable character in the novel. He is the classic citizen gone soldier and provides the book with some its most insightful words
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I. The Philippines and WWII II. II. Japanese Occupation and the Second Philippine Republic III. Battles for Liberation The Philippines and WWII The Philippines and the WWII Philippines prepares for war. On July 26, 1941, Lt. Gen. Douglas MacArthur, Military Adviser to the Philippine commonwealth, was asked by President Theodore Roosevelt to take command of the newly formed United States Armed Forces in the Far East (USAFFE). The Japanese era started December 8, 1941 (10 hours
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historical events and fictionalized the story for an exceptional, the movie 300 showed a clear description to how Spartans lived. Spartans were laconic, yet always ready for battle. The movie showed how the army was very selective about the young men that fought for Sparta. Only the well trained, with sons were allowed to fight in the battle. Spartans
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