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Pheidippides was a hero of Ancient Greece, whose story has inspired the modern day marathon. Pheidippides was an Athenian herald, or messenger, who ran from Marathon of Athens, a distance of 25 miles, to announce the Greek victory over the Persians, only to then collapse and die. More at: History
I was elector palatine of the Rhine between 1610 and 1623. I was king of bohemia between 1619 and 1620 – for one winter, hence the sobriquet applied to me. I had been chosen by the Protestant Bohemians as ruler after the deposition of the Catholic Emperor Ferdinand II. My selection was the cause of…
