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  • Yahweh or Allah (from whichever lens we're viewing it), are always only 1 generation away from being placed on the bookshelves next to the iliad and odysey where the bible and the koran belong.

    Must Watch: Bill Maher's Religulous Trailer! « FirstShowing.net 2008

  • August 26, 2008 at 6:28 am rong epic poem. teh iliad is about the trojan war

    we’re in ur iliad stealin ur myths - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008

  • I gave a short talk about the iLiad and digital paper and called upon the college instructors to look into developing software, preferably open software, for the iliad.

    Archive 2008-07-01 Jak Boumans 2008

  • I seem to remember only centuries of heroic war, in which you were always heroes — epic on epic, iliad on iliad, and you always brothers in arms.

    The Man Who Was Thursday Gilbert Keith 2003

  • Between facts and fables, the evidence with regard to the tonsils and their functions seems to establish the conclusion that they have been wrongfully and foolishly held responsible for "an iliad of ills."

    Valere Aude Dare to Be Healthy, Or, The Light of Physical Regeneration Louis Dechmann

  • I seem to remember only centuries of heroic war, in which you were always heroes -- epic on epic, iliad on iliad, and you always brothers in arms.

    The Man Who Was Thursday 1874-1936 1908

  • I seem to remember only centuries of heroic war, in which you were always heroes—epic on epic, iliad on iliad, and you always brothers in arms.

    The Accuser Gilbert Keith 1908

  • I seem to remember only centuries of heroic war, in which you were always heroes -- epic on epic, iliad on iliad, and you always brothers in arms.

    The Man Who Was Thursday, a nightmare 1905

  • But to drop into prose again, and have done with this iliad of odds and ends.

    An Old Town By the Sea Thomas Bailey Aldrich 1871

  • Such an iliad of woes would have expanded itself _seriatim_, and by a long procession, from the one original mischief of depending for daily bread upon those who might suddenly become enemies or tools of enemies.

    The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 1 Thomas De Quincey 1822

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