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"Come and take it" is a long-standing expression of defiance first recorded in the ancient Greek form molon labe "come and take [them]", a laconic reply supposedly given by the Spartan King Leonidas I in response to the Persian King Xerxes I's demand for the Spartans to surrender their weapons on the eve of the Battle of Thermopylae in 480 BC. [1]
Tuna, Texas Official site Greater Tuna is the first in a series of four comedic plays (followed by A Tuna Christmas , Red, White and Tuna , and Tuna Does Vegas ), each set in the fictional town of Tuna, Texas, the "third-smallest" town in the state.
"The Weapon Shop" is a science fiction short story by Canadian writer A. E. van Vogt, originally published in the December 1942 issue of Astounding Science Fiction. It was developed from a much shorter 1941 story, "The Seesaw". It was, in turn, used as the basis for a portion of the 1951 fix-up novel The Weapon Shops of Isher.
Daniel Chacón (born 1962) is a Chicano short story writer, novelist, essayist, editor, professor, and radio host based in El Paso, Texas. [1] He chairs the University of Texas at El Paso creative writing graduate program, the country's only bilingual MFA program. [2]
Timothy Isaiah Courtright (c. 1845 – February 8, 1887), [1] also known as "Longhair Jim" or "Big Jim" Courtright, was an American Deputy Sheriff in Fort Worth, Texas from 1876 to 1879. In 1887, he was killed in a shootout with gambler and gunfighter Luke Short .
It appeared to have been traveling for about 10,000 years, and had travelled about 30 light years on its own power. The Space: 1999 episode "Voyager's Return" featured a fictional nuclear drive probe called "Voyager One", powered by the life-destroying "Queller Drive", which killed all the life forms on two of the Federated Worlds of Sidon. The ...
A select committee of the Texas state Senate lambasted executives from a Houston-area power company Monday over the utility’s preparation for Hurricane Beryl, which left millions of Texas ...
Las armas secretas (translates to The Secret Weapons in English) is a book of five short stories written by Julio Cortázar.The latter four stories appear in translation in the volume Blow-up and Other Stories (alternatively titled The End of the Game and Other Stories); the first story, "Cartas de Mamá," was published by Sublunary Editions as a stand-alone paperback in English translation by ...