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In 480 BC, Persian King Xerxes I ordered a pontoon bridge built across the Hellespont strait to move his massive army into Greece. A storm destroyed it overnight. Xerxes did not rebuild it quietly. He ordered his soldiers to whip the sea 300 times with chains, brand it with hot irons, and throw shackles into the water — symbolically ...
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