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TIL The movie “The Warriors”, about a Brooklyn gang fighting its way past rivals to make it back to Coney Island, was an adaptation from the Ancient Greek text “Anabasis” by Xenophon about Greek mercenaries stranded 1,000 miles behind Persian lines trying to fight their way back home.

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