New Horizons launched on January 19, 2006, and itâll reach Pluto on July 14, 2015. Do a little math and youâll find that it has taken 9 years, 5 months and 25 days. The Voyager spacecraft did the distance between Earth and Pluto in about 12.5 years, although, neither spacecraft actually flew past Pluto.
Sparta (Doric Greek: ÏÏÎ¬ÏÏÎ±, SpÃ¡rtÄ; Attic Greek: ÏÏÎ¬ÏÏÎ·, SpÃ¡rtÄ) was a prominent city-state in ancient Greece. In antiquity the city-state was known as Lacedaemon (Î»Î±ÎºÎµÎ´Î±Î¯Î¼ÏÎ½, LakedaÃ­mÅn), while the name Sparta referred to its main settlement on the banks of the Eurotas River in Laconia, in south-eastern Peloponnese. Around 650 BC, it rose to become the dominant military land-power in ancient Greece.
Sparta was the only city left at the end of the Peloponesse was who were in a fit enough state to take over as leader of Greece. However, instead of liberating the other Greek city states from the domination of Athens and the Delian League as it had promised, Lysander set about installing obligarchies.