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Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, Athens

October 17, 2009

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An Evzone soldier stands guard at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Athens, Greece.  The Scots did not have a monopoly on going to war in skirts.  The ceremonial uniform of the Evzones is derived from that of the Greek bandits and guerillas that resisted Ottoman Turkish occupation prior to independence in the early… [Read more…]

Monasteries of Meteora, Greece

October 17, 2009

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Built between five hundred to a thousand years ago, the monks and hermits of the Greek Orthodox Church sought ever more remote and difficult-to-reach places from where to pray and contemplate. Hence their position amongst these spectacular sandstone rock formations in central Greece. Nowadays a sealed road links all the monasteries and they are as… [Read more…]

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