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    victory over the Persians at Marathon. From 483 BC, Xerxes prepared his expedition: The Xerxes Canal was dug through the isthmus of the peninsula of Mount...
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    Examples include canals that connect valleys over a higher body of land, like Canal du Midi, Canal de Briare and the Panama Canal. A canal can be constructed...
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  • List of teen dramas (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    Canal 9 Presentes [es] (2012), Encuentro Rebelde Way (2002–03), Canal 9 El refugio (de los sueños) (2006), Canal Trece Rincón de luz (2003), Canal 9...
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    stockpiling, and conscription. Xerxes directed that the Hellespont be bridged to allow his army to cross to Europe, and that a canal be dug across the isthmus...
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    Old Persian cuneiform (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    along the Suez Canal. They were mostly inscriptions from the time period of Darius I, such as the DNa inscription, as well as his son, Xerxes I. Later kings...
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    The 300 Spartans (category Cultural depictions of Xerxes I)
    Halicarnassus, who beguiles Xerxes with her charm, and Demaratus, an exiled king of Sparta, whose warnings Xerxes does not heed. Xerxes releases a captured Spartan...
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    It was decided that Xerxes' Pontoon Bridges were to be set up to allow his army to cross the Hellespont to Europe, and that a canal should be dug across...
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    the Scamander had produced these effects, or else that Ptolemy mistook a canal for the Scamander. Even in the time of Strabo the Scamander reached the...
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    to the river Nile by building a canal (Darius Canal) which ran from modern Zaqāzīq to modern Suez. To open this canal, he travelled to Egypt in 497 BCE...
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  • Anyways" de Xavier Dolan distingué à Cannes". Le Point, 27 May 2012. "Queer Palm Cannes 2012 : la Croisette "gay friendly" avec 17 films en lice". Canal+. 24...
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