fought between an alliance of Greek city-states, led by King Leonidas of Sparta, and the Persian Empire of Xerxes I over the course of three days, during the second Persian invasion of Greece; the subject of the movie 300
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Thermopylae is a wedge issue
on how progressives tend to not like the movie 300
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Thermopylae is a wedge issue
on how progressives tend to not like the movie 300
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multifarious
(en)
having many varied parts or aspects; multifaceted
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with its feeds multifarious as the glistening strands
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with its feeds multifarious as the glistening strands
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lissome
(en)
(adjective) easily flexed / (adjective) lithe / (adjective) nimble
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He is accompanied by a lissome escort
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He is accompanied by a lissome escort
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zaibatsu
(en)
(noun) a Japanese term referring to industrial and financial business conglomerates in the Empire of Japan, whose influence and size allowed control over significant parts of the Japanese economy from the Meiji period until the end of World War II
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If you thought zaibatsus were creepy
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If you thought zaibatsus were creepy
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scad
(en)
(noun) a large number or quantity
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He buys scads of high-bandwidth technology from the West
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He buys scads of high-bandwidth technology from the West
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sampan
(en)
(noun) a flat-bottomed skiff used in eastern Asia and usually propelled by two short oars
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a sampan is a small utility craft with an enclosed cabin
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a sampan is a small utility craft with an enclosed cabin
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lee
(en)
the sheltered side; the side away from the wind
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In the lee of an unburied concrete manhole nearby
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In the lee of an unburied concrete manhole nearby
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gofer
(en)
(noun) an employee whose duties include running errands; lackey
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the American technique of sending a gofer down to the 7-Eleven
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the American technique of sending a gofer down to the 7-Eleven
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vituperation
(en)
(noun) sustained and bitter railing and condemnation; vituperative utterance / (noun) an act or instance of vituperating
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The reason people are so vituperative about those generations is not because they know anything about the history
on Victorians and Puritans
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The reason people are so vituperative about those generations is not because they know anything about the history
on Victorians and Puritans
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eschatology
(en)
the part of theology concerned with death, judgment, and the final destiny of the soul and of humankind
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the heavy eschatological issues that lie just below the surface of religion are simply too icky and troublesome to think about
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the heavy eschatological issues that lie just below the surface of religion are simply too icky and troublesome to think about
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