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How 300 Spartans Fought to the Death Against Thousands

In 480 BC, King Leonidas of Sparta and 300 of his warriors made their legendary last stand at Thermopylae. Facing a Persian army numbering in the hundreds of thousands, the Spartans held their ground ...
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US Navy’s new 3,000-ton warship can hunt submarines 5,000 miles from home

The first was a World War II-era submarine chaser commissioned in the 1940s. The new USS Pierre will be home-ported in San ...