MORE than forty years ago in the city of Changlo, Fukien Province, China, there lived a man and wife with a large family of children only one of whom was a son.

I look at them. They're the boards of a novice-recently-turned-intermediate surfer. 'Does Garrett have any boards in the van?' 'Ooh, shots fired. What's wrong with my boards, eh?'

The Athenian hoplites who routed the Persian invaders on the field of Marathon in 490 created one of the great 'myths' of Athens.

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