Paradoxically, since a desert is normally the exact opposite of a garden, the wilderness was the Israelites’ Eden. Here they were as close to God as were the first humans before their loss of ...

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Many of you may know of King Leonidas from 300, the bloody excellent film where he was portrayed by the rippling physique of Mr Gerard Butler. But did you know that Leonidas was in fact a real person?