A minor nitpick, the medal was awarded by Clinton.
I think that both versions of that story are legends, not fact.
(As described in Mario Puzo’s novel “The Godfather”).
Puzo admitted that he made most of the stuff up (the rituals, the conception of “honor”.
The interesting thing is that after the movie’s success, big-name mobsters started imitating what they say in the film.
What I described as fact was a summary of the account given by Herodotus. Unlike the authors of the legendary account that arose hundreds of years later, he was able to interview participants in the Greek and Persian wars. While some of his details (exact Persian troop numbers, most famously) should be taken with a grain of salt, it is my understanding that his history has held up pretty well to modern investigation. Archaeological finds have supported details that were questioned in the past, for example.
So you could throw it out as legendary, but then why would you trust any history you read that you haven’t personally witnessed?
And to prove that the run from Athens to Sparta is possible in that timeframe:
Thanks. I thought it was in 2001.
Rhett Butler didn’t say “Frankly Scarlett, I don’t give a damn.” It was “My dear”, not Scarlett.
Clinton DID inhale! (NOT a potshot!) 
Nero didn’t “Fiddle” while Rome was burning. The violin hadn’t been invented yet. (He played a lute, if anything.)
For the purposes of the “WWII rule,” an acronym is really an initialism pronounced as a word, so OK and NaBisCo don’t count. Of course, the concept of one word representing a phrase is much older than the 20th century- early Christians used “ichthys”, the infamous Jesus fish, to stand for “Jesus Christ, God’s Son, Savior.”
Shoulda been “from the town of Sprint”.
I’ve never, not once, heard it as anything other than “my dear.” Who quotes it as “frankly Scarlett”? Google shows less than 200,000 hits for your incorrect version.
I’ve never heard this definition for acronym, which is usually defined as a pronouncable word formed from the beginning letters or letters of a phrase. That means Nabisco is an acronym (though a proper noun), but OK is not. Other acronyms are radar, modem, and snafu, all of which were coined in WWII or later I believe.
The distinction there, of course, being that “ichthys”, meaning “fish”, was already a well-established word at the time of Jesus. The new meaning had its origin at least partly from an acronym, but not the word itself. By contrast, “radar” (for instance) didn’t mean anything, until someone decided that they needed a name for the new device.
Add in NECCO, Necco - Wikipedia
I forget how far my brother in law went in th e70’s when he discovered you couldn’t buy NECCO wafers in Alabama.
The permanent record is absolutely true.
My oldest friend was going through jobs in real estate and tried to get a license to sell in Pennsylvania. He is from Jersey and has a license there. When he applied to PA, there was a “unresolved concealed weapons charge” on his record! This was from over 20 years ago when he, myself and another friend were arrested in Medford, NJ, for underage drinking. Our other friend had a 3-inch boot knife in his boot. Thus, we were all charged with “possession of a deadly weapon” initially. It was dropped from our friend’s record, but still on my best friend’s record AND MINE! I had to go to court in Medford with him to be a witness and to make sure it was dropped from my record. This arrest happened when I was 17, I was 38 when we resolved it. But there’s still a permanent record on it; once to be charged and once to be dropped in court 21 years later. Yes, my best friend got his PA license after that.
So permanent records exist. What teachers were telling us was NOT about some silly school record. Ask anyone who’s been arrested for urinating in public and is listed as a sex offender.
“Nero opened relief shelters and reduced the price of corn while Rome burned” just doesn’t have the same ring to it.
That would not have been the maize we think of, but corn often refers to other grains.
So indeed he did blame the Christians.
So the ‘permanent record’ as the concept is commonly understood is false.
Everyone knows criminal records exist. That isn’t up for discussion. What’s being talked about is the idea that, for example, having been tardy more often than you should have been in the tenth grade will prevent you from becoming an MD, which is simply false (unless it adversely affects your academic record (no, I’m not going to go into everything here you all know what I mean)).
Agreed. I don’t know what was worse, the permanent record, or “the blue card.” (Here in NYC, at least.)
What’s a blue card?
I work in a middle school.
When we talk about a “permanent record”, we mean one that will follow them into the office of the high school. It also goes in their file over to another school if they transfer.
I certainly never thought, including when I was in school, that it went beyond high school.
According to Tacitus and Suetonus, he recited a long passage from Homer about the burning of Troy.
cite?
As far as I know, that is an urban legend with no supporting evidence.
And the reason a fish was used as a symbol for Christians? Because “I will make you fishers of men” As far as I understand it.
From wikipedia:
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ΙΧΘΥΣ(Ichthys) is anacronym
for “ἸησοῦςΧριστός,ΘεοῦΥἱός,Σωτήρ”, (IēsousChristos,TheouYios,Sōtēr), which translates into English as “Jesus Christ, God’s Son, Savior”.
- Iota
(i) is the first letter of"Iēsous
"(Ἰησοῦς), Greek for "Jesus
". - Chi
(ch) is the first letter of"Christos
"(Χριστός), Greek for “anointed”. - Theta
(th) is the first letter of"Theou"(Θεοῦ), Greek for “God’s”, the genitive case ofΘεóς,“Theos”, Greek for “God”. - Ypsilon
(y) is the first letter of"(h)yios"[3]
(Υἱός), Greek for “Son”. - Sigma
(s) is the first letter of"sōtēr"(Σωτήρ
), Greek for “Savior”.
Historians say the 20th-century use of the"ichthys"motif is an adaptation based on an Early Christian symbol which included a small cross for the eye or the Greek letters “ΙΧΘΥΣ”.
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