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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Prof. Peter Baalam]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[&quot;Marathon,&quot; presumably mostly means &quot;big,&quot; as in roughly 25 miles without stopping, as in a messenger&#039;s journey on foot from Marathon to Athens.  But in the legend, the original runner, Pheidippides, arrived in Athens with a single two-word message on his lips which he delivered to those in Athens who could hear him about the outcome of the Greeks&#039; war with Persia -- and two very fitting words indeed, not only for the Greeks on that day but also and to this very era for the geeks who put on marathon readings.  Pheidippides&#039; words before collapsing: &quot;We won!&quot;]]></dcterms:description>
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