First the self-proclaimed king of kings, Xerxes the Great, cut his canal to bring his war fleet across the isthmus, the sooner to meet the 300 Spartans at Thermopylae. The cut is still there, having silted over in the long centuries since ... One is the Hotel Athorama, promising a suitable mixture of sacred and profane, if a bit more of the latter, and the ability to bring the missus too. Into this element we wade, for behind Ouranopoulis' gas station is the most unlikely ...
awbury arboretum in east germantown was the summer bestate/b of 19th century quaker shipping merchant henry cope. across the 55 acres are plantings of groves and clusters of trees set amidst large swaths of grss fields in the english ...
Verdant new developments of plush pastel bvacation/b homes beckon buyers from Britain and Germany. Golf courses ? dozens of them, all recently built ? give way to the beach. At last, this hardscrabble corner of southeast Spain is thriving. b....../b Nelson confiscated almost the entire DAN-NOR trading- and bwar fleet/b as a trophy ? 100 big ships made up from some 100 000 logs of oak ?? In the Treaty of Kiel, after the Napoleon wars, Norway was seeded to Sweden (under conditions ...
