Word: gaugamela
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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From the beginnings of history and literature, human beings have also invoked the sun. In rejecting peace offers from Darius before the battle of Gaugamela, Alexander the Great explained, "Heaven cannot brook two suns, nor earth two masters." And in 1911, Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany, speaking of his nation, declared, "No one can dispute with us the place in the sun that...
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