I think I would like to try to run a marathon one day.
Good for you!!!  Keep in mind that a marathon is 26.219 miles long, so you will need to train ahead of time.
That is super far! I dont know if I will be able to do that.
They hold marathons to commemorate the run of  Pheidippides, a Greek messenger who reported the armies win at the battle of marathon in 490 BC
That is really interesting I had no idea
Keep training.  If you get good at marathons, you could go to the Olympics!!!  The marathon was one of the original Olympic events.
I will keep training and maybe one day.
just fought), which took place in August or September, 490 BC. It is said that he ran the entire distance without stopping and burst into the assembly, exclaiming ("nenikēkamen", "we have won!"), before collapsing and dying. The account of the run from Marathon to Athens first appears in Plutarch's "On the Glory of Athens" in the 1st century AD, which quotes from Heraclides Ponticus's lost work, giving the runner's name as either Thersipus of Erchius or Eucles.
it was food and not religion which was the crying need of India.
Lecture.
Vivekananda delivered the following lecture that day (see ""):
Christians must always be ready for good criticism, and I hardly think that you will mind if I make a little criticism. You Christians, who are so fond of sending out missionaries to save the soul of the heathen — why do you not try to save their bodies from starvation? In India, during the terrible famines, thousands died from hunger, yet