Earlier, in 364 BC, there was another Battle of Cynoscephalae where Thebes defeated Thessaly. The Theban leader, Pelopidas, died in that battle. Alexander of Pherae was the losing commander of the Thessalians.
Thebes, a city-state of some importance in ancient Greece, is a bustling market town of about 37,000 people. Until the 1980s, it had a flourishing agrarian production with some industrial complexes. However, during the late 1980s and 1990s the bulk of industry moved further south, closer to Athens.
Another Thebes was the largest city in Egypt in the 18th century BC, near the time of the founding of the Greek Thebes by the Phoenecian Cadmus… As early as Homer’s Iliad,the Greeks distinguished the Egyptian Thebes as Thebes of the Hundred Gates, as opposed to the “Thebes of the Seven Gates” in Boeotia in Greece.
General Horatio Gates was the commanding officer at the Battle of Saratoga, which was a crucial victory for the Continentals. Though Gates claimed credit for the victory, he did little during the actual battle, with the most important tactical victory led by General Benedict Arnold, who lost a leg in the battle. There is a monument to Arnold on the battlefield, but it does not mention his name.
Indeed not: What was the deal with Benedict Arnold? - The Straight Dope
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Horatio Gates’s star was in the ascent after the victory at Saratoga in August 1777, and there was talk that he might replace George Washington as commander-in-chief of the Continental Army. However, his utter defeat at - and headlong retreat from - the Battle of Camden in August 1780 destroyed his reputation.
Aldebaran, Altair, Antares and Rigel are among the brightest stars in our night sky. They are also the names of the four white horses in the 1959 movie, Ben Hur.
In the last chapter of the Revelation to St John, the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse are featured. The riders are commonly identified as Plague, War, Famine and Death. The four horses are each a different colour: red, black, white and pale. Death is the only horseman expressly named. He rides the Pale Horse, and legions of the dead from Hades follow him.
Of the 27 books in the New Testament, John Calvin wrote a commentary on each and every one except for the Book of Revelation.
Theological Calvinism is principally vested in the North America in the Christian Reformed Church, with roots in the Dutch reformed Church. The Christian Reformed faithful in theUSA are mainly of Dutch ancestry and depend heavily on parochial schooling for their children, with higher education offered by Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
The Colorado Rapids are an American professional soccer team, based in the Denver suburb of Commerce City, Colorado, which competes in Major League Soccer (MLS), in the Western Conference of the league. Colorado is one of the 10 charter clubs in MLS, competing since the inaugural season of the league. Colorado won the MLS Cup in 2010. The Rapids play their home games at Dick’s Sporting Goods Park in Commerce City since its opening in the 2007 season.
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MiLB, Minor League Baseball, has two teams in Colorado: the Colorado Springs Sky Sox, and the Grand Junction Rockies. The Colorado Springs Sky Sox are the Triple-A affiliate for the Milwaukee Brewers, and the Grand Junction Rockies are the Rookie affiliate for the Colorado Rockies.
MiLB has teams in 42 of the 50 US states. MiLB does not have any teams in AK AZ HI KS MN ND SD and WY. The lone team in Canada is in BC. They are the Vancouver Canadians and are the Short-Season A affiliate for the Toronto Blue Jays. In Mexico, MiLB has 15 teams in the Mexican League. There are no other MiLB teams anywhere else.
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Back in the early days of baseball, the minor leagues were classified as Class AAA (the International League, American Association, and Pacific Coast League), AA, A, B, C, and D. Minor league teams would sell (or sometimes trade) their best players to teams in a higher class league; the majors usually would buy players from AAA, or stock the AAA teams with players not on the major league roster. This changed in the 1940s, as the St. Louis Cardinals invented the farm system, where all players were under contract to the MLB club. By the 50s, all teams had a farm system, and the old classifications were changed to eliminate the B, C, and D.
Wesley Branch Rickey, perhaps best known for breaking the MLB color barrier when on 15 April 1947 the Jackie Robinson he signed to contract started at first base for the Brooklyn Dodgers, established the farm system in 1921 with the St. Louis Cardinals that arguably saved minor league baseball.
There are several minor baseball leagues that are not under the umbrella of MIBL, in that their players are not under contract to MLB teams. But their players are of the caliber of the lower minor leagues, and their franchises are economically successful, even those in the suburbs of MLB teams with whom they compete with low ticket prices, easy parking, and family-friendly presentations. There are more cities in the US that can support minor league baseball, than the number MLB teams are willling to stock with playes, and Independent Leagues fill this vacuum. In a addition, there are over a dozen Collegiate League with more than a hundred teams, which play through the summer using players who still have college baseball eligibility, and want to get playing time during the summer months. Those leagues operate very much like independent leaguees, with considerablel economic success.
One of the largest cities without a major or minor league baseball team is Portland OR, population over 609,000.
U.S. Navy Ohio-class ballistic missile submarines are named after states, while Los Angeles-class fast attack submarines are, with a few exceptions, named after cities.
One (the lone?) exception to the Los Angeles class sub names is the USS Hyman G. Rickover, SSN-709.
The Lone Ranger radio show from the 1940’s once offered a "“Lone Ranger Atom Bomb Ring” as premium to its listeners.
I had one. It was red and white, and if you pull off one end of the “bomb” in the dark and hold the open section up to your eye, you cold see tiny glowing “atoms” shooting about in the interior of the device.
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The Ed Sullivan ***Show ***was not always called that. Originally it aired live only on a New York station, then went on the national network as “Toast of the Town”.