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At the pass of Thermopolae, between the amorphous wall of Mt. Oeta and the stilly Maliac gulf stood King Leonidas with his three hundred now world famous Spartan heros one day in 480, watching the approach of Xerxes and his host of iron clad companions, the sunlight slithering from plumed...
And as year after year the acanthus and asphodel sprout above him, Leonidas may have doubted the efficacy of his defence. To be sure, poets have sung him in their spare moments; men have written his name in the encyclopedias and the New York Times; historians have exalted him. He...
Mr. and Mrs. William C. Davis of Leonidas, Mich., received the following letter last week:
Died. Charlotte Bell, 113, a slave belonging to Gen. Leonidas Polk until the end of the Civil War; in Columbia, Tenn.
After Mr. H. L. Mencken and G.B.S. have explained carefully and occasionally in words of one syllable exactly how great is the triumph of the bachelor, the discovery of one who believes that single blessedness is due to the inability of the man to win a mate is a distinct...