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...famous lines are here: "Go tell the Spartans"; "Come and get us"; and the Spartan soldier's deflection of the Persian threat, "Our arrows will blot out the sun" - he says, "Then we will fight in the shade." Herodotus: damned fine screenwriter...
...about them, since their country is the descendant of ancient Persia. A cultural adviser to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad charged the film with "plundering Iran's historic past and insulting this civilization." The newspaper Ayandeh-No ran the headline "Hollywood Declares War on Iranians, adding, that the movie "seeks to tell people that Iran, which is in the Axis of Evil now, has for long been the source of evil and modern Iranians' ancestors are the ugly murderous dumb savages...
...woke up and realized there was a terrible war of civilizations going on. But, boy, when you did wake up, you didn't go to sleep again. In Britain we were being slaughtered, and we were mighty thankful to see the Yanks occupying our countryside, I can tell you. Thank God there were no Kinsleys around wanting to bring the boys home when the going got tough. By comparison, Iraq is a walk in the park. Reg Brissenden, Dorset, England...
Incredibly, cricket is not India's national sport. That title goes to another English import, field hockey. But as anyone who has ever stepped foot in India can tell you, there is really only one game that matters here and it's not hockey. In the build-up to the quadrennial World Cup - which opened Tuesday in Jamaica - cricket has dominated social conversation, magazine covers and the airwaves. "Cricket is the only game that can stop life in India," says Apurva Anand, a 21-year-old architecture student. "For the next few weeks my studies will just have...
...built their majestic capital at Persepolis, were exceptionally munificent for their time. They wrote the world's earliest recorded human rights declaration, and were opposed to slavery. Cuneiform plates show that Persepolis was built by paid staff rather than slaves And any Iranian child who has visited Persepolis can tell you that its preserved reliefs depict court dress of velvet robes, and that if anyone was wearing rags around 500 B.C., it wasn't the Persians...