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2. Athletic event: Although sometimes used for any athletic event of great length, or requiring great endurance, the word "marathon" is most often used to describe a foot race of 26 miles and 385 yards. The race was named for the legend Pheidippides?, a Greek soldier who, according to Herodotus (see book IV, 105) ran from Marathon to Sparta for aid. The distance for a modern marathon, however, is based on the distance from Marathon to Athens (Marathon to Sparta is about 140 miles). |
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2. Athletic event: Although sometimes used for any athletic event of great length, or requiring great endurance, the word "marathon" is most often used to describe a foot race of 26 miles and 385 yards (42,195 metres). The race was named for the legend Pheidippides?, a Greek soldier who, according to Herodotus (see book IV, 105) ran from Marathon to Sparta for aid. The distance for a modern marathon, however, is based on the distance from Marathon to Athens (Marathon to Sparta is about 140 miles). |
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3. A computer game from bungee software, with a science fiction theme, and in the first person shooter genre. |
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