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Spartan and book
These shows normally consists of three to five musical pieces accompanied by formations rooted in origin from " Patterns in Motion ", a book penned by one-time Michigan State University Spartan Marching Band assistant band director William C. " Bill " Moffit, who would later become bandmaster of Purdue University All-American Marching Band and University of Houston Spirit of Houston.
Frank Miller's 1998 comic book miniseries 300, and the 2006 film adaptation of the same name, portray Ephialtes as a severely deformed Spartan in exile who betrays the Spartan army after Leonidas, although sympathetic towards him, denies him the right to fight because he was unable to lift a shield high enough, thus compromising the integrity of the phalanx formation.
It is also used in the Clive Cussler book Spartan Gold as a hiding place for artifacts.
* Spartan ( comics ), Wildstorm comic book character
As Joe Casey and Sean Phillips took over Wildcats, they quickly dealt away with Kenyan while Void and Emp ended up having Spartan absorb their assets and powers, thus the book began a long spell featuring him aided by Ladytron and Grifter with Maul and Voodoo guest-starring and as well as new characters Noir, Agents Wax and Mohr of the National Park Service.
* Aeimnestus ( Gr. ) was the Spartan soldier who killed the Persian general Mardonius by hurling a boulder onto Mardonius ' head during the Battle of Plataea in 479 BC, as told in book 9 of the Histories of Herodotus.
( Authorized King James Version 1. 12. 20 ) Three letters in the first book constitute the Jewish appeal of a Spartan affiliation.
In 1962 Rosenblatt published much of the content of this honors course in the book " Principles of neurodynamics: Perceptrons and the theory of brain mechanisms " ( Spartan Books, 1962 ) which he used thereafter as a textbook for the course.

Spartan and ),
Pausanias, the second king of Sparta ( see Spartan Constitution for more information on Sparta's dual monarchy ), was supposed to provide Lysander with reinforcements as they marched into Boeotia, yet failed to arrive in time to assist Lysander, likely because Pausanias disliked him for his brash and arrogant attitude towards the Spartan royalty and government.
* Agis I ( died 900 BC ), a Spartan king
* Agis II ( died 401 BC ), a Spartan king
* Agis III ( died 331 BC ), a Spartan king
* Agis IV ( 265 BC – 241 BC ), a Spartan king ; Plutarch included a chapter on him in his Parallel Lives
Field Marshal Bernard Law Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, KG, GCB, DSO, PC (; 17 November 1887 – 24 March 1976 ), nicknamed " Monty " and the " Spartan General ", was a British Army officer.
Offsprings of the Mac include, among many others, the firmer Macoun ( a Jersey Black cross ), the Spartan ( recorded as a Newtown Pippin cross ), the Cortland, the Empire, the Jonamac, the Jersey Mac and possibly the Paula Red.
Friction between Athens and Peloponnesian states, including Sparta, began early in the Pentecontaetia ; in the wake of the departure of the Persians from Greece, Sparta attempted to prevent the reconstruction of the walls of Athens ( without the walls, Athens would have been defenseless against a land attack and subject to Spartan control ), but was rebuffed.
* Many of Athens ' former allies are now ruled by boards of ten ( decarchy ), often reinforced with garrisons under a Spartan commander ( Harmost ).
Its inhabitants were classified as Spartiates ( Spartan citizens, who enjoyed full rights ), Mothakes ( non-Spartan free men raised as Spartans ), Perioikoi ( freedmen ), and Helots ( state-owned serfs, enslaved non-Spartan local population ).
Supposedly, following the disaster that befell the Roman imperial army at the Battle of Adrianople ( AD 378 ), a Spartan militia phalanx met and defeated a force of raiding Visigoths in battle.
465 – 460 BC ), and Thucydides remarked that " Spartan policy is always mainly governed by the necessity of taking precautions against the helots.
At age 20, the Spartan citizen began his membership in one of the syssitia ( dining messes or clubs ), composed of about fifteen members each, of which every citizen was required to be a member.
Thucydides reports that when a Spartan man went to war, his wife ( or another woman of some significance ) would customarily present him with his shield and say: " With this, or upon this " ( Ἢ τὰν ἢ ἐπὶ τᾶς, Èi tàn èi èpì tàs ), meaning that true Spartans could only return to Sparta either victorious ( with their shield in hand ) or dead ( carried upon it ).
Unlike women in Athens, if a Spartan woman became the heiress of her father because she had no living brothers to inherit ( an epikleros ), the woman was not required to divorce her current spouse in order to marry her nearest paternal relative.
Over the years, LLNL designed the following warheads: W27 ( Regulus cruise missile ; 1955 ; joint with Los Alamos ), W38 ( Atlas / Titan ICBM ; 1959 ), B41 ( B52 bomb ; 1957 ), W45 ( Little John / Terrier missiles ; 1956 ), W47 ( Polaris SLBM ; 1957 ), W48 ( 155-mm howitzer ; 1957 ), W55 ( submarine rocket ; 1959 ), W56 ( Minuteman ICBM ; 1960 ), W58 ( Polaris SLBM ; 1960 ), W62 ( Minuteman ICBM ; 1964 ), W68 ( Poseidon SLBM ; 1966 ), W70 ( Lance missile ; 1969 ), W71 ( Spartan missile ; 1968 ), W79 ( 8-in.

Spartan and historical
The word has come to refer to historical mass-dispersions of people with common roots, particularly movements of an involuntary nature, such as the expulsion of Jews from the Middle East, the African Trans-Atlantic slave trade, the southern Chinese during the coolie slave trade, or the century-long exile of the Messenians under Spartan rule.
The origins of the powers exercised by the assembly of the citizens are virtually unknown because of the lack of historical documentation and Spartan state secrecy.
* After driving off the Spartan army that has threatened Mantinea, Epaminondas of Thebes moves south and crosses the Evrotas River ( the frontier of Sparta ), which no hostile army has breached in historical memory.
It is not clear if this Lycurgus was an actual historical figure ; however, many ancient historians believed Lycurgus was responsible for the communalistic and militaristic reforms that transformed Spartan society, most notably the Great Rhetra.
While the Total War series has traditionally focused upon historical and legendary scenarios with each instalment, Spartan: Total Warrior is more liberal in its approach to history, drawing elements from the Greek and Roman mythology, and has more in common with games such as God of War.

Spartan and novel
Hanzō also appears in the novel Fukurō no Shiro ( Owl's Castle ), later made into two feature films ( including Owls ' Castle ), in the manga and anime series Gin Tama, Naruto, Samurai Deeper Kyo and Tail of the Moon, and in the live-action film Goemon, and was featured in an episode " Spartan vs. Ninja " of the TV show Deadliest Warrior.
A. Bertram Chandler had the mirror image vision of a society composed of men only, in the novel " Spartan Planet ".

Spartan and by
* 479 BC – Greco-Persian Wars: Persian forces led by Mardonius are routed by Pausanias, the Spartan commander of the Greek army in the Battle of Plataea.
Reinforced by Phocian and Orchomenian troops and a Spartan army, he met the confederate forces at Coronea in Boeotia, and in a hotly contested battle was technically victorious, but the success was a barren one and he had to retire by way of Delphi to the Peloponnese.
Shortly before this battle the Spartan navy, of which he had received the supreme command, was totally defeated off Cnidus by a powerful Persian fleet under Conon and Pharnabazus.
These historians point towards the unstable oligarchies established by Lysander in the former Athenian Empire and the failures of Spartan leaders ( such as Pausanias and Kleombrotos ) for the eventually suppression of Spartan power.
The Athenians were preparing to make reprisals, in spite of the advice of the Delphic oracle that they should desist from attacking Aegina for thirty years, and content themselves meanwhile with dedicating a precinct to Aeacus, when their projects were interrupted by the Spartan intrigues for the restoration of Hippias.
Plutarch is the source also for the story that the victorious Spartan generals, having planned the demolition of Athens and the enslavement of its people, grew merciful after being entertained at a banquet by lyrics from Euripides's play Electra: " they felt that it would be a barbarous act to annihilate a city which produced such men " ( Life of Lysander )
Later variants included the Chalcidian helmet, a lightened version of the Corinthian helmet, and the very simple Pilos helmet worn by the later Spartan hoplites.
In exceptional situations, such as war, occupation, revolution or a coup d ' état, constitutional institutions, including the symbolically crucial head of state, may be reduced to a figurehead or be suspended in favor of an emergency office ( such as the original Roman Dictator ) or eliminated by a new " provisionary " regime, such as a collective of the junta type, or removed by an occupying force, such as a military governor ( an early example being the Spartan Harmost ).
* Lambda was used as a shield pattern by the Spartan Army.
The Athenian strategy was initially guided by the strategos, or general, Pericles, who advised the Athenians to avoid open battle with the far more numerous and better trained Spartan hoplites, relying instead on the fleet.
Perhaps worst of all, the nearby silver mines were totally disrupted, with as many as 20, 000 Athenian slaves freed by the Spartan hoplites at Decelea.
Faction triumphed in Athens following a minor Spartan victory by their skillful general Lysander at the naval battle of Notium in 406 BC.
According to Plutarch, Spartan society twice underwent major upheavals sparked by ephors ' dreams at the shrine during the Hellenistic era.
Burnett follows others, like C. M. Bowra, in suggesting that Sappho's circle was somewhat akin to the Spartan agelai or the religious sacred band, the thiasos, but Burnett nuances her argument by noting that Sappho's circle was distinct from these contemporary examples because " membership in the circle seems to have been voluntary, irregular and to some degree international.
" What other man, while Sparta still had the superior strength and the Spartan Eurybiades held the supreme command of the fleet, could by his single-handed efforts have deprived Sparta of that glory?
* January 29 – WWII: HMS Spartan ( 95 ) is sunk by a Henschel Hs 293 from a German aircraft off Anzio, western Italy.
* 407 BC: The Athenian fleet is routed by the Spartan one in the Battle of Notium, which gives Alcibiades ' opponents a reason to strip him of command.
** The Battle of Plataea in Boeotia ends the Persian invasions of Greece as the Persian general Mardonius is routed by the Greeks under Pausanias, nephew of the former Spartan King, Leonidas I.
* 650s BC: The Spartan Creed by Ancient Greek poet Tyrtaeus
* Cleomenes I engineers the deposing of Spartan co-ruler Demaratus ( and his replacement by Cleomenes ’ cousin Leotychidas ) by bribing the oracle at Delphi to announce that this action was divine will.

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