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Those achievements, it seems to me, will have progressively worn down humanity's evidently desperate determination to close its eyes to the prospect of defeating its foremost remaining scourge anytime soon.
For the first time in the 300-year history of sumo, a foreigner became grand champion by defeating another foreigner.
In between defeating the Austrians in Italy and a less successful campaign against the British in Egypt, in 1795 Bonaparte returned to Paris to crush the royalists, and four years later he staged a coup against the Directoire.
Tadeusz Ko§ciuszko, a hero of the American War of Independence, led a military insurrection in 1794, defeating the Russians with a mostly peasant army.
But Einstein wins the triathlon because in addition to acing the science test, he prodded Roosevelt to build the bomb (10 points for defeating totalitarianism), fled Germany and immigrated to the United States (five more points for defeating totalitarianism and five for liberation and justice), and preached pacifism and praised Gandhi (10 more points for liberation and justice).