Thucydides
Historian, 4th century BC
“History is philosophy teaching by example”
Xenophon
Historian, 4th century BC
“Excess of grief for the dead is madness; for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not”
Democritus
Philosopher, 5th century BC
“Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is just opinion”
Aristotle
Philosopher, 4th century BC; teacher
of Alexander The Great
“Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies”
Andrew Yannakis, Ph.D., Research Professor, University of New Mexico
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Andrew Yiannakis, Ph.D., is currently a Research Professor at the University of New Mexico (USA). He is also Professor Emeritus from the University of Connecticut where he taught the Sociology of Leisure, Tourism & Sport, as well as Research Methods and Computer Applications. He also holds the rank of 8th Dan in Traditional Jujutsu and a 6th Dan in Traditional Kodokan Judo. He is the Director of the Institute of Traditional Martial Arts at the University of New Mexico. He is also the Chair of the Traditional Jujutsu Committee of the USJJF. As an amateur historian, he has led several expeditions to Greece to conduct research at Thermopylae, and locate the path the Persians used in 480 BC to encircle, and defeat King Leonidas and the Greek allies. Prof. Yiannakis has published extensively in a number of areas.
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