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Our main sources for early Hoplite warfare come from the writings of Herodotus, who was born in the Greek city of Halicarnassus, on the southwest coast of Asia Minor, in 484 bc. He was an Ionian Greek who traveled widely and lived for a while in Athens, before settling in Thurii, a Greek colony in southern Italy. He died about 424 BC. We also get information from Thucydides, an Athenian who wrote of the Pelopponnesian Wars. We can also find references in the works of several of the Greek playwrights' material on Hoplite warfare. We can find an account of...

Inquiry into deaths of UNT official, girlfriend nears end Woman at house on night of fatal shootings faces questioning 01/05/2003 By RACHEL HORTON / The Dallas Morning News The Texas Rangers are preparing to close an investigation into the unsolved deaths of a University of North Texas vice president and his girlfriend, officials said. The body of Mark Moore, who led the university's development office in fund-raising records, was found May 21, 2001, in the bedroom of his Corinth home, lying next to the body of Sylvia Huffman Hunt, 45, of Fort Worth. He had been shot twice in...