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Classical musings clash with modern proofs in Vann column
In a June 26 1895 Durham Recorder column L D Vann surveys ancient and modern thought. He cites Horace Gibbon and Brilliants as he ponders whether the world grows wiser, laments crime and reform efforts, and contrasts past marvels with present constraints.
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Helen
Hector
Patroclus
Simon
Scamander
Chios
Priam
Ilus
Briseis
Dido
Niobe
Hecuba
Andromache
Moses
David
Herodotus
Josephus
Gibeah
Medeba
Uriah
Arbela
Thermopylae
Maji
Jerusalem
Bull Run
Gettysburg
Spottsylvania
Gibbon