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In the fifth century BC Hippocrates noted that although some people could eat their fill of cheese "without the slightest hurt…others come off badly".
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Despite the death and devastation they cause, the agents do not come off badly in the film, according to director Yuval Adler, arguing that the eye-opening depictions of spycraft in enemy territory were common to all intelligence agencies.
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Sondhaus, Naval Warfare 1815–1914 pp. 122–26. Russia expanded her navy in the 1880s and 1890s with modern armored cruisers and battleships, but the ships were manned by inexperienced crews and politically appointed leadership, which enhanced their defeat in the Battle of Tsushima on 27 May 1905.Sondhaus, Naval Warfare 1815–1914 pp. 187–91. The Battle of Iquique, where Peruvian ironclad sunk the Chilean wooden corvette Esmeralda. The US Navy ended the Civil War with about fifty monitor-type coastal ironclads; by the 1870s most of these were laid up in reserve, leaving the United States virtually without an ironclad fleet. Another five large monitors were ordered in the 1870s. The limitations of the monitor type effectively prevented the US from projecting power overseas, and until the 1890s the United States would have come off badly in a conflict with even Spain or the Latin American powers. The 1890s saw the beginning of what became the Great White Fleet, and it was the modern pre-Dreadnoughts and armored cruisers built in the 1890s which defeated the Spanish fleet in the Spanish–American War of 1898.
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