During the next two centuries Miletus was far more active in colonization than any other city-state in the Greek world, founding a total of thirty cities around the Black Sea and its approaches in the Hellespont and the Sea of Marmara.
He has given large sums of money to L.A. arts institutions about a hundred and forty million dollars in the past thirty years but in return he has expected a degree of fealty that many in the art world find unseemly.
The world's first successful digital computer could produce the same numbers in thirty seconds that it took a person twelve hours to figure with a calculator.