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...icebergs, some the size of mountains, others smaller,...all tossed and churned by gutsy winds and unpredictable heavy seas"; Heinrich and Sophia Schliemann, "a quixotic archaeologist with a beautiful wife directing a hundred and fifty rebellious workmen on the exotic Turkish landscape" to find the ruins of Homer's Troy...
...last 25 years, teams of scholars from Harvard and Cornell have sifted through the remains of the opulent eastern capital at its site just southeast of ancient Troy. This week, the Fogg Art Museum winds up an exhibition and lecture series celebrating the Silver Jubilee of the Sardis exploration, an ongoing project sponsored jointly by the Fogg and by Cornell University...
Gilligan is currently studying girls' development through high school at the Emma Willard School, a private girls' school in Troy, New York...
Perception is reality. It has long been an axiom for soldiers. "All warfare is based on deception," said Sun Tzu, the great 4th century B.C. Chinese strategist whose prize pupil turned out to be Mao Tse-tung. The Greeks understood that principle when they set sail from Troy, leaving behind only a large wooden horse. Macduff knew it when he disguised his soldiers with branches from Birnam Wood as they marched against Macbeth. In World War II, the Allies created a phantom First U.S. Army Group, outfitted with rubber tanks and canvas landing barges (courtesy of the Shepperton movie studios...
Robert M. Simms Troy...