... idea and promised to have his researchers look into it — and in 1961 , Minnesota Mining poured a batch of semiviscous polyurethane resin over some Belmont Park asphalt and created an eighth - of - a - mile artificial walking oval .
... surreal moment ofall, with the draught from the helicopter nearlyblowing us off our feetand 80 000people intheground cheering us on.A verydifferent scene to 1963, and all becausea photographer happened to capture one magic moment.
An analysis of the private and public lives of ancient Rome's gladiators explores how they were both despised for their lowly status and hero-worshipped for their skills and courage, chronicling how tens of thousands of gladiators perished ...
The Gladiators (1939) is the first novel by the author Arthur Koestler; it portrays the effects of the Spartacus revolt in the Roman Republic.
Reprint of the original, first published in 1863.
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