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The First Men’s Cricket World Cup JamesHoare Wed, 06/18/2025 - 08:00
“I wanted an intimate setting so that I would be able to engage with people while also giving them the opportunity to feel comfortable with me. A limousine seemed like a perfect choice.” – Kathy Shorr In 1988, Kathy Shorr became a limousine driver. A graduate of the School for Visual Arts with … Continue reading "Limousine: The Driver Photographs Her Passengers in 1980s New York" The post Limousine: The Driver Photographs Her Passengers in 1980s New York appeared first on Flashbak.
In 425 BCE, during the early phase of the Peloponnesian War, known as the Archidamian War (431-421 BCE), the Athenians under Demosthenes captured the Island of Pylos. The Athenian capture of Pylos posed a significant threat to Sparta by providing a prime raiding base near Spartan territory. A failed attempt by the Spartans to […]
Since the time of Alexander the Great (336-323 BCE), the Macedonians had dominated the eastern Mediterranean. Their heavy infantry phalanx rolled over the Greek cities and then the Persian Empire. To the west, Roman legionnaires had conquered Italy and were overwhelming Carthage. At the start of the second century BCE, a series of wars […]