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Remember the 300

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It's good to be the king.

Once upon a long-forgotten time — well, mostly forgotten, at any rate; we couldn't tell you this story if nobody had ever remembered anything — a massive invading army of from Persia attempted to overwhelm a vastly outnumbered detachment of Greek soldiers at the coastal pass of Thermopylae. A company of about 1,000 Greeks, notably including 300 Spartans, held its ground against a Persian force more than 100 times as large for three full days of battle.

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Labor Day = Big Savings

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Yee-haw! It's Labor Day!

The U.S. observance of Labor Day had its first formal stirrings in 1887, when Oregon became the first state to make Labor Day a darn tootin', sure-as-shootin' public holiday. They're nothing if not progressive in Oregon, which is also where the first one-way streets in a U.S. city were laid out, as well as being the (highly generalized) location of the first facility to successfully breed harbor seals in captivity.

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A Knife Gift for Christmas

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Now that's a knife

I recently celebrated another birthday, and although I’m getting on in years, at heart I’m still a boy. And like most boys, I like knives. The Marine Ka-Bar, Gurkha kukri, anything made of Damascus steel, and of course the Turkana wrist-knife — I love em all.

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CompTIA Network+ N10-005 Retired! Find the N10-006 Here

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