Word: peloponnesian
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...outdoor shower with only cold water. The work of weeding and raking under a blinding blue sky was demanding, but John Krausser, 63, and his wife Traudi, 59, didn't mind. They were, after all, in the peaceful countryside of Greece, and the view of olive groves, the craggy Peloponnesian terrain and the ocean was spectacular...
Toloui said the committee also asked about his favorite piece of art-work (Picasso's "Guernica") and his favorite ancient Persian king (Xerxes, because of his "clever politics during the Peloponnesian...
THROUGHOUT HISTORY, GOING BACK AT LEAST TO THE Peloponnesian War, nations have ascribed idealistic purposes to their military struggles. But as with Sparta's classic balance-of-power contest with Athens, discernible national interests have always been at stake. What makes America's intervention into Somalia seem so inspiring -- and also so dangerously slippery -- is that it may be the first time since the Crusades an invasion has been launched for a purely moral rationale...
Such activity violates the 1925 Geneva Protocol, which outlawed the use of all poison gases, but never forbade their production and stockpiling. More stringent precautions might have been advised, given the lengthy and sordid history of chemical warfare. Use of deadly fumes dates back to the Peloponnesian War, when tar pitch and sulfur were mixed to produce a suffocating gas. Twenty-three centuries later, chemical weaponry emerged as the ugly stepchild of the modern chemical industry. The great nations of Europe decided that such weapons were barbaric and outlawed them in the Hague Convention...
Associate Professor of History Bradford A. Lee will join eight to 10 other War College professors in teaching a course which covers "military strategy from Thucydides and the Peloponnesian war to Grenada, " he said. Lee said he chose the War College, despite offers from several other schools...