Word: mede
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...calm, small, square-cut sculptor named Costantino Nivola has finished what may be the biggest single bas-relief in modern history. Darius the Mede and Nebuchadnezzar ordered bigger ones, but the ancient rulers never saw anything remotely like Nivola...
...distance covered by Athenian Courier Pheidippides in 490 B.C., when he raced from the plain of Marathon to the outskirts of Athens with news that Darius the Mede had been defeated...