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To: longtermmemmory
Okay, but apart from representative democracy, term limits, universal language, mathematics, physics, geography, commerce, libraries, forced perspective, the golden mean, mechanics, military innovations, laws, New Testament language, stoning of criminals, art, education, defeating Hitler, and Mussolini,

What have the Greeks ever done for us?

10 posted on 08/05/2011 1:20:16 PM PDT by Thane_Banquo
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To: Thane_Banquo

high heat ceramics for protective coatings.

pastries.

exporting their smartest to the USA. (there is a deep resentment there by that brain drain. those that stayed behind have this notion that those that prospered in the USA could have done their prospering in the current socialism of Greece.)

Marathon running industry. (can still run that marathon in marathon every year)

Olympic games. -pre doping

one of the hardest road rally races in world due to tough mountain roads

citizenship can be earned by more than mere birth.

beat back persians.


11 posted on 08/05/2011 1:40:50 PM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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