The Athens Library is a part of the Marathon County Public Library ( MCPL ), a network of nine public libraries throughout Marathon County, Wisconsin.

The Edgar Library is a part of the Marathon County Public Library ( MCPL ), a network of nine public libraries throughout Marathon County, Wisconsin.

The Hatley Library is a part of the Marathon County Public Library ( MCPL ), a network of nine public libraries throughout Marathon County, Wisconsin.

On 1 October 2005, as part of their Gameshow Marathon celebrating 50 years of the ITV network, Ant & Dec hosted a one-off revival that was the only edition of the series to be broadcast live.

Not long after, the new Disney-led ownership directed KTRK-TV to clear the entire ABC schedule, though there have been times when local special events are aired in place of network programming ( the annual running of the Chevron Houston Marathon is one notable example of this, when the Sunday edition of Good Morning America is pre-empted for live race coverage, anchored by the Eyewitness News team ).

The three games in the series — Marathon ( 1994 ), Marathon 2: Durandal ( 1995 ), and Marathon Infinity ( 1996 )— are widely regarded as spiritual predecessors of Bungie's Halo series.

The Marathon series of games are unique amongst first-person shooters for their heavy emphasis on storytelling through the use of terminals, which are computer interfaces included within the game through which players not only learn and sometimes accomplish mission objectives, but also learn detailed story information.

The game's code changed little since Marathon 2, and many levels can be played unmodified in both games.

Marathon was first released for the Macintosh in 1994 and introduced many concepts now common in mainstream video games.

Within the next few years, Marathon 2's engine was reused by other developers to create the games ZPC, Prime Target and Damage Incorporated.

Bungie produced a compilation of all three games of the series called the Marathon Trilogy Box Set in 1997.

The first contained all three Marathon games as well as Pathways Into Darkness, an earlier Bungie game that the series included in its continuity.

All three Marathon games can be downloaded for free for the Macintosh, PC and Linux platforms, release notes can be found here:

They are first introduced in Pathways Into Darkness, in which they warn Earth of the imminent threat of a " waking god " ( possibly a W ' rkncacnter, a chaotic entity from the Marathon games ).

The W ' rkncacnter is a chaotic entity ( or possibly entities ) from the Marathon Trilogy of games created by Bungie.

The Marathon Trilogy has often been looked upon as a symbol of Macintosh gaming for its innovative technologies previously unseen in mainstream games.

* Damage Incorporated, Prime Target and ZPC, three commercial games created using the Marathon 2 engine.

On June 22, 2006 Match Game was the sixth of seven classic game shows featured in CBS ' month-long Gameshow Marathon hosted by Ricki Lake and announced by Rich Fields, and the second of two " semi-final " games in the tournament.

Annual events include Dance Marathon, a thirty-hour event that raised more than a million dollars for charity in 2011 ; and Project Pumpkin, a Halloween celebration hosted by the Northwestern Community Development Corps ( NCDC ) to which more than 800 local children are invited for an afternoon of games and sweets.

The distance from the start of the Marathon to the finish at the stadium was established at these games.

In 2004, in a series marred by controversy ( Ponce almost threatened to pull out of game six during the fourth quarter ), the Leones won their twelfth championship, defeating the Coamo Marathon Runners in seven games, with a game seven score of 92-77.

During the Olympic games in 2004, a part of the historical Marathon passed through Agia Paraskevi in Mesogeion avenue, and this was deemed a great moment for the municipality.

Blood was also one of the first FPS games ( along with Marathon, Heretic, Strife and Star Wars: Dark Forces ) to feature " alternate " or " secondary " attack modes for its weapons ; most weapons in Blood have two different methods of dealing damage, in contrast to previous games in which each weapon had only a single type of attack.

was later included in several compilations of early Bungie games, including the Marathon Trilogy Box Set and the Mac Action Sack.

* Born on Board, the humans in the Marathon Trilogy computer games

Halo Effect: An Unauthorized Look at the Most Successful Video Game of All Time, an essay on references to mythology in Halo and previous Bungie games, analyzed the significance of Cortana's name, stating is a variant of Curtana, the sword used by the legendary Ogier the Dane, just as the titular AI character of Marathon 2: Durandal is apparently named after another legendary sword, Durendal.

The Battle of Marathon was a watershed in the Greco-Persian wars, showing the Greeks that the Persians could be beaten ; the eventual Greek triumph in these wars can be seen to begin at Marathon.

Marathon 2 brings many elements to the game that can be considered staples of the series such as: a Lh ' owon-native species known as F ' lickta, the mention of an ancient and mysterious race of advanced aliens called the Jjaro, and a clan of S ' pht that avoided enslavement by the Pfhor: the S ' pht ' Kr.

In Marathon 2 and Marathon Infinity, the player can swim in four different types of media: water, sewage, lava and acid / plasma ; the latter two are damaging to health.

He participated in the 2006 Los Angeles Marathon ; his charity of choice was the Innocence Project, a non-profit legal clinic that handles legal cases where post-conviction DNA testing of evidence can yield conclusive proof of innocence.

Entry to the Honolulu Marathon is open to anyone who can pay the entry fee.

Ultrarunning is popular in Europe, and the sport can trace its origins here with early documentation of ultrarunners came from Icelandic sagas, or even the antique Greece from where the idea of the Marathon, and the Spartathlon comes.

One can run 5 kilometers, half a Marathon, or a full Marathon.

The Marathon, which has been running since Canada's Centennial year of 1967, consists of ten sections of varying lengths and difficulties which can either be skied together over the two days ( five stages per day ), or individually on subsequent days.

* Reminiscences of Seconds and Marathon Man can be found in Harry's interrogation scene.

In Dance Maniax 2nd Mix Append J-Paradise, songs in Dance Maniax 1st where included and only one of the 3 series titles can only be chosen for Marathon Course in one playing session.

Tire selection is adequate, and Kevlar-beaded tires, which can be folded for carriage in panniers, are available ( as of late 2007 ) as the Schwalbe Marathon Racer.

Additionally, the player can unlock " Time Attack " and " Challenge modes " by getting the high score in the " Score Attack " and " Marathon " modes.

In winter skiing fans can participate in the Tartu Cross-Country Marathon, belonging to the Worldloppet series.

An official time from the Flying Pig Marathon can be used to qualify for the Boston Marathon.

There are many variations of this theory, but perhaps the most prevalent is that the cavalry was re-embarked on the ships, and was to be sent by sea to attack ( undefended ) Athens in the rear, whilst the rest of the Persians pinned down the Athenian army at Marathon.

Indeed, based on their previous experience of the Greeks, the Persians might be excused for this ; Herodotus tells us that the Athenians at Marathon were " first to endure looking at Median dress and men wearing it, for up until then just hearing the name of the Medes caused the Hellenes to panic ".

It seems that the Athenian playwright Aeschylus considered his participation at Marathon to be his greatest achievement in life ( rather than his plays ) since on his gravestone there was the following epigram:

Marathon was the first time a phalanx faced more lightly armed troops, and revealed how effective the hoplites could be in battle.

A number of the other military athletes in attendance were also familiar with the San Diego races, so they understood the concept when Collins suggested that the debate should be settled through a race combining the three existing long-distance competitions already on the island: the Waikiki Roughwater Swim, the Around-Oahu Bike Race (; originally a two-day event ) and the Honolulu Marathon.

Hallam perhaps said it best: " It may justly be reckoned among those few battles of which a contrary event would have essentially varied the drama of the world in all its subsequent scenes: with Marathon, Arbela, the Metaurus, Châlons and Leipzig.

The name Marathon is derived from the giant interstellar colony ship that provides the setting for the first game ; the ship is constructed out of what used to be the Martian satellite Deimos.

Compared with its darker predecessor, Marathon 2 has often been perceived to be a brighter, more vivid and more atmospheric game.

For example, Durandal's rampancy is believed to be caused by his mistreatment at the hands of his handler, Bernard Strauss, as well as his limited existence in opening and closing the Marathon < nowiki >'</ nowiki > s doors.

There is no reason in particular to believe that this state is anything more than the goal of human cyberneticists, as there is no good evidence of an AI in the Marathon universe ceasing to be rampant.

The three chapters of Marathon Infinity are entitled " Despair ", " Rage ", and " Envy ", suggesting that the player himself ( strongly implied to be a cyborg ) may be undergoing his own Rampancy throughout the course of the game's events.

These may use custom maps, shapes, sounds or physics files and may or may not be set in the Marathon universe.

According to an anonymous biographer of Aeschylus, the Athenians chose Simonides ahead of Aeschylus to be the author of an epigram honouring their war-dead at Marathon, which led the tragedian ( who had fought at the battle and whose brother had died there ) to withdraw sulking to the court of Hieron of Syracuse — the story is probably based on the inventions of comic dramatists but it is likely that Simonides did in fact write some kind of commemorative verses for the Athenian victory at Marathon.

Viking Kayak Club organise the Bedford Kayak Marathon with canoe racing held along the Embankment on Bedford's riverside and dates back to the original Bedford to St Neots race in 1952, believed to be the first of its kind in the country.