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- It may surprise you to learn that at this moment, Sunny resembled the famous Greek conqueror Alexander the Great.†
p. 168.7 *Alexander the Great = conqueror of most of the world known to the ancient Greeks which lead to the Hellenistic Age (356-323 BC)
- Alexander the Great lived more than two thousand years ago, and his last name was not actually "The Great."†
p. 168.7
- Besides invading other people's countries and forcing them to do whatever he said, Alexander the Great was famous for something called the Gordian Knot.†
p. 168.9
- Luckily for the Baudelaires, Sunny's teeth were as sharp as the sword of Alexander the Great, and Captain Sham's peg leg split right in half with a crack!†
p. 170.3
Definitions:
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(Alexander the Great) conqueror of most of the world known to the ancient Greeks which lead to the Hellenistic Age (356-323 BCE)A memory trick to remember the relationships between Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle, and Alexander the Great is to put them in reverse alphabetical order: Socrates taught Plato who taught Aristotle, who taught Alexander the Great.
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