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The Temple of Slontah, Libya

Mon, 13 Oct 2008 22:49:55 GMT

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The Temple of Slontah, Libya

Paul Sieveking visits North Africa to see the ancient site of Slontah in Cyrenaica.

In ancient times, Cyrenaica in eastern Libya existed as a kind of Mediterranean island, separated from the rest of Africa by the desert and linked to Crete and mainland Greece by the sea. Excavations show the Aegeans visited this part of Africa (known today as Barqa), where they traded with the local population, as early as the 14th century BC. It was here, according to myth, that the Argonauts received pledges, in the form of a handful of earth offered them by Eurypylos, the local deity.

US schools still on top worldwide

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 22:35:45 GMT

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Technology is the way of the future more than ever.

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Of the top 100 institutions 17 are from the UK, two fewer than in 2007, compared with 37 US universities.

New entrants in the top 200 include: Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Stony Brook University (USA), Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IITD), VU University Amsterdam (Netherlands), University of Lausanne (Switzerland), Chulalongkorn University (Thailand), Universität Frankfurt am Main (Germany), Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IITB), Lomonosov Moscow State University (Russia), Brandeis University (USA), Pohang University of Science and Technology (South Korea), Technische Universität Berlin (Germany), University of Bern (Switzerland), Dalhousie University (Canada), University of Buenos Aires (Argentina) and University of Athens (Greece).

Thirteen of those in the top 100 were strong on technology

"People with strong numerical and problem-solving skills seem to be appreciated by employers."

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In Ancient Greece, Soil Was Sacred

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 04:44:27 GMT

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Greek temples honored specific gods and goddesses, and now new research suggests that even the dirt under such buildings held spiritual significance.

The discovery could help explain why writers like Homer and Plato wrote of "divine soil" and soil that can affect a person's soul. It may also explain how the ancients selected locations for their sacred buildings.

Retallack, a professor of geological sciences at the University of Oregon, took soil samples from 84 Greek temple sites dating to the Classical Age from 480 to 338 B.C. Based on analysis of each sample, he created a profile for the soils naming their characteristics and how they might have been used at the time.

Retallack noticed a pattern: The soil appeared to be directly connected to the mythology surrounding the god or goddess honored by the particular temple. Buildings dedicated to Athena and Zeus, for example, were erected on soils of citadels.

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Apollonius of Tyana

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 01:33:00 GMT

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Apollonius of Tyana
The Real Jesus

Apollonius of Tyana Born February 16, 2 AD in Tyana, Cappadoccia, Greece.

Original founder of true Essene Christianity, whose precepts originate in Buddhist India and China(Himalayas).

Replaced by Yeshai Beth Halachmee(pseudo-crucified Essene of 4 BC), Jehoshua Ben Pandira(the Jesus of 100 BC) and Christna(the avatar of 3000 BC) by the priests of Constantine at the Council of Nicea in 325 AD.

The New Testament is a distorted account of his life and teacings.

The Real Jesus

Apollonius of Tyana Born February 16, 2 AD in Tyana, Cappadoccia, Greece.

Original founder of true Essene Christianity, whose precepts originate in Buddhist India and China(Himalayas).

The New Testament is a distorted account of his life and teacings.

yahoo greece

Wed, 08 Oct 2008 08:55:47 GMT

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Scientists Reach Hydrogen Storage Milestone

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 17:19:04 GMT

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Hydrogen cars may be feasible sooner than previously thought thanks to the efforts of a research team at the University of Crete in Greece. The scientists have developed a hydrogen storage model that can store up to 41 grams of hydrogen per liter— almost matching the US Department of Energy’s target of 45 grams per liter.

The storage structure consists of graphene sheets that are only one atom thick connected by vertical columns of carbon nanotubes. Hydrogen is stored in the gaps between the nanotubes and the graphene sheets. The researchers also added lithium ions to the structure for increased storage capacity.

In the past, one of the major drawbacks in using hydrogen for transportation purposes has been a lack of storage ability. This new discovery comes close to removing that hurdle. But since most hydrogen is still produced using fossil fuels, we still have a ways to go before hydrogen-powered cars are ready for commercial use.

Tags: clean energy, hydrogen economy

Air Tickets

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 11:18:19 GMT

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Amazing Clifftop Monasteries of Meteora, Greece

Sun, 05 Oct 2008 17:40:00 GMT

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Meaning ‘suspended in air’ the name Meteora includes the entire rock community of 24 monasteries. There were no steps and the main access to the monasteries was by means of a net that was hitched over a hook and hoisted up by rope and a hand cranked windlass to winch towers overhanging the chasm. Monks descended in the nets or on retractable wooden ladders up to 40m long to the fertile valleys below to grow grapes, corn and potatoes.

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Wildlife and Travel Photography

Sat, 04 Oct 2008 20:27:56 GMT

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Cariboureindeer / caribou

Caribou

White tailed deer

Caribou

White tailed deerfawn

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Barred Owl

Red tailed hawk

Snowy Owl

Golden Eagle

Red Tailed HawkThis bird died.

Bald Eagle

Red Tailed HawkNew Male at Eco-Museum (April 29th)

Red Tailed Hawk

Golden Eagle

Bald Eagle

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Invertebrates

Mammals

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Travel Portfolio

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Bahamas

Kidnap Inc.

Fri, 03 Oct 2008 07:08:38 GMT

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On The Cover/Top Stories

Kidnap Inc.

To the sundry costs of doing business abroad, add the risk of abduction. From Mexico to India, Nigeria to Greece, sophisticated gangs are nabbing American workers.

They came for George Milonas in June in front of his house in Thessaloniki, Greece's second-biggest city. The chief executive of Alumil, a $420 million (sales) aluminum-extrusion business, was winding up a busy day. He'd had an early-morning meeting at Greece's central bank, given the keynote speech at an event on corporate social responsibility, then had dinner with his wife, Nellie. As he arrived home and got out of his car, Milonas was seized by four hooded men who forced him back behind the steering wheel and ordered him, at gunpoint, to drive away.

Tags: us business, overseas, kidnapping, business, execs

ASCSA began 1881

Fri, 03 Oct 2008 01:21:29 GMT

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History at a Glance
The School was founded in 1881 by a consortium of nine American universities in collaboration with leading businessmen. Built on land deeded by the Greek government, it was the first American overseas research center, and is now the largest, along with the American Academy in Rome. It is the largest of the fourteen foreign institutes located in Athens. Today the School remains, as its founders envisioned, a privately funded, non-profit educational institution, operating in Greece as a private cultural institution.

link to Century Mag Article 1899

Fri, 03 Oct 2008 00:59:58 GMT

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Ottoman Rule & Independence war

In 1458, five years after the final Fall of Constantinople, the Turks of the Ottoman Empire conquered the city and its mighty castle.

During the Greek War of Independence, 1821-1830 the city was totally destroyed by the Turkish forces. The city was officially liberated in 1832 after the Treaty of London. In 1833, the site was considered among the candidates for the new capital city of the recently founded Kingdom of Greece, due to its historical significance and strategic position. Athens, then an insignificant village, was chosen instead

Byzantine Corinth

Fri, 03 Oct 2008 00:57:34 GMT

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Byzantine era

The city was destroyed by an earthquake in 375 and again in 551. During Alaric's invasion of Greece, in 395–396, Corinth was one of the cities he despoiled, selling many of its citizens into slavery.

During the reign of Byzantine emperor Justinian I, a large stone wall was erected from the Saronic to the Corinthian gulf, protecting the city and the Peloponnesean peninsula from the barbarian invasions of the north. The stone wall was about six miles (10 km) long and was named Examilion (exi=six in Greek). During this era Corinth was the seat of the Thema of Hellas (representing modern day Greece).

In the 12th century (during the reign of the Comnenus dynasty), the wealth of the city, generated from the silk trade to the Latin states of western Europe, attracted the attention of the Sicilian Normans under Roger of Sicily, who plundered it in 1147.

temple of Apollo

Fri, 03 Oct 2008 00:38:53 GMT

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Today Corinth is famous for the remains of a Temple of Apollo, built around 550 BCE. Still standing are several Doric columns, some of the oldest in Greece. Later Corinth would create the more elaborate Corinthian style of column that would become popular throughout Greece and, later, the Roman Empire.