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Fast Food Hits Mediterranean;a DietSuccumbs

A fast-food restaurant in Kasteli, Crete, offers pizza and burgers in addition to more traditional, and more healthful, Greek salads.
By ELISABETH ROSENTHAL
KASTELI, Greece — Dr. Michalis Stagourakis has seen a transformation of his [...]

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It was characterized as a historic day for the New Acropolis Museum. A big step for the repatriation of the Parthenon marbles. The return of the Palermo fragment, a foot from a sculpture of the ancient Greek hunt goddess Artemis, which was originally stood above [...]

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Sept. 18 (Bloomberg.com)
In 1983, Isaac Arazi and his wife were caught in sectarian fighting during Lebanon’s warA Shiite Muslim militiaman helped the couple escape. Arazi, a leader of Lebanon’s tiny Jewish community, sees the incident as a lesson in the Arab country’s tradition of [...]

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I didnt know before about this cruel crime against this young lady ,i didnt know about the story of the princess “Mashaal” the daugther of king Fahd Al Saud the king of Saudia .
Mashaal was executed in public by her family for alleged adultery in [...]

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Mojca Finc is a blond and beautiful young woman. She was the winner of the European Young Journalism Award from her country: Slovenia. But  Mojca wasn’t born in Slovenia. Twenty three years ago she was born in Croatia and she lived there till she was [...]

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Harvard University, the most famous educational institution in the United States, has a new base in the historic city of Nafplion in Greece. It is a modern Centre for Hellenic Studies, which constitutes Harvard University’s first facility for international programs in continental Europe.
The site carries [...]

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3,500 years after the legendary Argo, which according to myth carried Jason and the Argonauts on their heroic quest for the Golden Fleece in Colchis, an exact relpica of the historic trireme sets sail from Volos on a 60 day trip to Venice.

(Reuters)
The modern-day Argo, [...]

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Les fêtes réellement populaires sont assez rares en Turquie. Hormis à l’approche du printemps. Si les kurdes célèbrent le Newroz le 21 mars, hier, les stambouliotes (et l’ensemble des turcs en particulier) ont célébré Hidrellez.
La fête s’est déroulée dans un très beau quartier de la [...]

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 This is what’s happening in my hometown “as we speak”. It’s called “Serenata Monumental” (monumental serenade). Students sing the tradicional Coimbra’s fado (different from the classical portuguese fado). It’s meant to be a “farewell present” to all the students that are finishing their graduations. It’s [...]

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Ce matin, je me suis levée, un peu plus tard que d’habitude : fête du travail et comme son nom ne l’indique pas… grasse matinée. Dans plusieurs pays, le 1er mai est férié. En France, en Belgique, en Suisse, les travailleurs restent chez eux. En [...]

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