DANGER! Slaves to History
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Day 309 of 2007
HAWAIIAN WORD OF THE DAY - Maka‘uloa: Dangerous
HAWAIIAN PROVERB OF THE DAY -
“An eel of the sand bank is a dangerous creature.”
NOVEMBER 5th, 430 BCE: Depending upon when you want to start counting local skirmishes as actual battles, the Peloponnesian War began in 430 BCE between the Greek states of Sparta and Athens. The militaristic Spartans claimed the war was initiated to bring freedom to the Greeks. In truth, the war began not with a formal declaration, as historian Donald Kagan has written, but with a stealthy and deceitful raid in peacetime by a powerful state against a much smaller adversary. In fact, the fighting began after incessant prompting by a vocal but minor group within Sparta. As the violence grew, it brought about the collapse of the habits, institutions, beliefs and restraints which were the foundations of the local life.
