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Springfield Southeast High School

A large fiberglass statue of a Spartan warrior stands above the front entrance of the school.


1966 Notre Dame vs. Michigan State football game

Irish quarterback Terry Hanratty was knocked out after getting sacked in the first quarter by Spartan defensive lineman Bubba Smith.

2012 Buffalo Wild Wings Bowl

A defeat at Spartan Stadium to Notre Dame snapped their home win streak, and the Spartans stumbled into conference play with a come-from-behind win over Eastern Michigan, who ended the season 2-10.

426 BC

However when, later in the year, Ambracia invades Acarnania, and the Acarnanians seek help from Demosthenes, who is patrolling the Ionian Sea coast with twenty Athenian ships, he reaches the Athenian naval base in the Gulf of Corinth at Naupactus and secures it just in time to defend it against a large Spartan army from Delphi under Eurylochus which has come to assist the Ambraciots.

4th of August Regime

The regime promoted the perceived Spartan ideals of self-discipline, militarism and collective sacrifice, while Byzantium provided an emphasis on a centralized state and devotion to the monarchy and Greek Orthodox Church.

Acarnania

390 BC, the cities of Acarnania surrendered to the Spartans under King Agesilaus, and continued to be Spartan allies until joining the Second Athenian Empire in 375 BC.

Amfissa

In 426 BC, Spartan general Eurylochus, on his way to Naupactus, arrived to Delphi and sent a herald to Amfissa, in order to detach them from Athens and make the Amfissians leave him pass through their lands.

Ancient Greek warfare

The first major challenge to the Spartan hegemony occurred in the Corinthian War (395-387 BC).

Battle of Plataea

The navy, now under the command of the Spartan king Leotychides, thus skulked off Delos, while the remnants of the Persian fleet skulked off Samos, both sides unwilling to risk battle.

Battle of Pylos

The establishment of an Athenian garrison in Spartan territory frightened the Spartan leadership, and the Spartan army, which had been ravaging Attica under the command of Agis, ended their expedition (the expedition only lasted 15 days) and marched home, and the Spartan fleet at Corcyra sailed to Pylos.

Blake Richardson

He later attended Mt. Tabor High School and performed an annual drum solo for a school-club project named 'Spartan Spectacular'.

Borough United F.C.

A 0-0 draw in Malta was followed by a 2-0 success at the Racecourse Ground in Wrexham — a more suitable venue than the tiny Nant-y-Coed ground with its single stand and spartan changing rooms — to set up a tie with Slovakian ŠK Slovan Bratislava.

Cleonymus

Cleonymus of Sparta (c. 340–c. 272 BC) Spartan general and member of the royal family of the Agiads

Conspiracy of Cinadon

He was a military officer who carried out important missions for the Ephors; he had a Scytale in his possession which was used to direct Hippeis, members of the elite Spartan guard of the Spartan army.

He assembled other hypomeiones around himself of whom the most dangerous, according to Xenophon, was the seer Tisamenus, a descendant of an Elean of the same name who had received Spartan citizenship after the Greco-Persian Wars.

Don Holleder

The battle is documented in Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter David Maraniss’ book They Marched Into Sunlight and Terry Tibbetts' book A Spartan Game, the Life and Loss of Don Holleder.

Dorieus

Dorieus was a half-brother to King Cleomenes I and a brother of Leonidas, who later became king and famous as the Spartan commander at the Battle of Thermopylae.

Gates of Fire

The novel also details the heroics of several dozen Spartans, including their king, Leonidas, the Olympic champion Polynikes, a young Spartan warrior named Alexandros, and the Spartan officer Dienekes.

Jimmy Raye II

In college, as a quarterback, he was the backup for the Michigan State Spartan football team that played in the 1966 Rose Bowl and started for the 1966 Spartans in the famous 10-10 tie with Notre Dame, a game often referred to as "The Game of the Century."

John-Michael Liles

Alongside Brad Fast he formed a star offensive duo among Spartan defencemen and in his sophomore year scored 25 points in 42 contests to be named to the All-CCHA Second Team.

Kelly Craig

In 300 she plays the role of the Oracle, a young Spartan girl who was chosen for her beauty and is guarded by the old Ephors, being frequently molested by them.

Kirk Gibson

It was at the suggestion of Spartan football coach Darryl Rogers that Gibson played collegiate baseball.

Lion Bus

Although not a manufacturer of conventional-style trucks used for bus chassis, Spartan was a previous industry supplier and previously the parent company of another body manufacturer (Carpenter Industries).

Lord Emp

Spartan did as asked, and inherited Marlowe's fortune, his company, and even his alias, later moving Halo's headquarter's from New York to Los Angeles.

Mana Genita

One should not be surprised at this; Aristotle, in fact, says that there is written in the treaty of the Arcadians with the Spartans: "No one shall be made good for rendering aid to the Spartan party in Tegea"; that is, no one shall be put to death.

Richardson Pack

Pack's prologue to Sewell's Tragedy of Sir Walter Raleigh, and his epilogue to Thomas Southerne's Spartan Dame, were admired.

Spartan Fidelity

The name Spartan Fidelity is derived from rearranging the name of an Alabama insurance company, Fidelity Spartan.

Spartan Records

John T. Frazier previously director of marketing at Tooth and Nail records founded the Spartan Records record label in January 2007 in Seattle, Washington.

The most successful release by Spartan Records has been their pressing of Mae 's Destination: Beautiful.

Destination: B-Sides the second mae album is rumored to be re-released on vinyl through Spartan Records in 2014 though other details are currently not released.

SS Spartan

In spring 1980 she was steamed up again to run as part of a lease agreement with the Ann Arbor Railroad out of Frankfort, Michigan, but was abandoned after it was discovered Frankfort harbor was too shallow for the Spartan.

Thomas Southerne

His other plays are: The Disappointment, or the Mother in Fashion (1684), founded in part on the Curioso Imperlinente in Don Quixote; The Wives Excuse, or Cuckolds make themselves (1692); The Maids Last Prayer; or Any rather than fail (1692); The Fate of Capua (1700); The Spartan Dame (1719), taken from Plutarch's Life of Aegis; and Money the Mistress (1729).

WBTW

Their two television stations, WBTW and KIMT in Mason City, Iowa; went to Spartan Radiocasting Corporation (later Spartan Communications) of Spartanburg.


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