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Ghosts of Onyx details the creation of a group of supersoldiers known as the SPARTAN-IIIs to defend humanity against the alien collective known as the Covenant. After the events of Halo 2, the SPARTAN's training world of Onyx is beset by robotic attackers. The SPARTANs and their trainers must fight the robots and the Covenant as they work to ...
Three is an American comic book miniseries created by Kieron Gillen, Ryan Kelly and Jordie Bellaire.It was published monthly by Image Comics between October 2013 and February 2014 before being released as a single volume in April 2014.
William Sitterson—Scion of Gawain—Bree's friend and the healer of her chapter of the Order. As the Scion of Gawain, he is the most powerful Scion at the height of his power, which occurs between midnight and two a.m. each night. Erebus Varelian—Seneschal of Shadows—Head of the Mageguard, Erebus is the most powerful Merlin in the world.
There is a single-sentence passing reference to the Crypteia, made by an imaginary Spartan in a fictional dialogue, in Plato's Laws [29] [2] moreover, the "Crypteia", 1 as it is called, affords a wonderfully severe training in hardihood, as the men go bare-foot in winter and sleep without coverlets and have no attendants, but wait on themselves ...
Scion is a role-playing game wherein players take on the roles of mortal descendants of gods tasked with working as the hands of their parents in the mortal world; while the first edition focused on a singular antagonist in the form of the recently escaped Titans (powerful, primordial embodiments of concepts such as water, chaos or light), the second edition does not automatically place this ...
During the summer, two years after these events occurred, the Spartan king Archidamus II finally led a Peloponnesian force against Plataea and began to raze their crops. . The Plataeans, in response, dispatched a herald reminding the Spartans of the glorious deeds the Plataeans performed during the Greco-Persian War and of the oath the Spartans swore to protect them and keep them independent ...
Early in the battle Antipater's lines broke, but in the end it was the sheer weight of numbers that brought victory to the Macedonians. It is written that 5,300 died on the Spartan side and 3,500 on the Macedonian side, [5] though it may have been as little as 1,000 for the Macedonians, Curtius agrees that there were 5,300 Spartans killed. [7]
The Ancient Tradition of Geometric Problems studies the three classical problems of circle-squaring, cube-doubling, and angle trisection throughout the history of Greek mathematics, [1] [2] also considering several other problems studied by the Greeks in which a geometric object with certain properties is to be constructed, in many cases through transformations to other construction problems. [2]