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21. Ancient Greece Odyssey: The Citadel of Mycenae My next stop on my Greek odyssey was the Bronze Age Citadel of Mycenae, home of legendary King Agamemnon. Read on for photos, information, and my memories of this ancient site, the Greek equivalent of Camelot! First, of course, I need to get there, s...
22. Macedonia Macedonia is used as a term to describe a large region of the Balkan Peninsula in Eastern Europe. It is also used to describe a small country that used to be a component of Yugoslavia and is now either "The Republic of Macedonia" (RoM) or "The Former...
23. "It's All Greek to Me!" Gift Shop Welcome to the Squidoo lens for my "It's All Greek to Me" Gift Shop, selling unique gifts with an ancient Greek twist!   Many of you have visited my Ancient Greece Odyssey: A Traveller's Journal travel diary with photos, stories, and...
24. European Travel Highlights A quick photographic tour of Europe to some of my favourite bits and links to a few more of my more detailed european travel articles, including: Tuscany in Italy Loire Valley and Brittany, France Gibraltar, U.K. (Near Spain) Richmond, London, Engla...
25. The Oracle at Delphi : Tales of the Ancient Greeks On Mt Parnassus, the sacred ruins of Delphi run lightly down the wooded terraces. Inside the sanctuary is the Temple of Apollo where sat the famous oracle, the sacred Corycian Cave, and the Castalian Spring. Legend tells us that the shrine was origi...
26. My Family and Other Animals My Family and Other Animals is Gerald Durrell's story of his childhood on the Greek island of Corfu. Full of the most eccentric characters - from his siblings, to the islanders, to the animals he encountered - this book is written in Durrell's typica...
27. Ganymede Ganymede was a beautiful prince from Troy, son of king Tros of Dardania  and of Callirrho. Ganymede was known as the most beautiful of mortals, and was subsequently carried off by the gods (in the later story by Zeus himself, or by Zeus in the f...
28. The Fall of Ancient Greece Winston Churchill once said "those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it." Unfortunately, the world seems to be repeating the mistakes of history. While some people have brought up the similarities between Ancient Rome and the United...
29. "A" is for "Arrowsmith" I began this journey as a lens master on June 21, 2008. I started with the story of how my parents began their first small business. That first lens reached a top rank of 188 overall and 14 in business, and then started back down, getting as low as...
30. I love Greek Mythology : Lensography of Legends In the isles of the Aegean, and of the Ionian, there is no river, no mountain ridge, no rocky crag, that is untouched by the tales of the Ancients. Philosophically, artistically, scientifically and politically, the Greeks reached an astonishing leve...
31. Greek Salad: Is It a Gift from Hestia, Greek Goddess of the Hearth? I love a great salad. I could live on salad. And there is no salad like a Greek Salad. Greek Salad can be many things. I have included a recipe for the 'traditional' Greek salad, but that isn't the one I make. Don't get me wrong. I am more than happ...
32. Decoding The Heavens I picked up the book, Decoding The Heavens, by Jo Marchant, intriqued by its title. What I enjoyed reading begins with a 100-year old deep-sea discovery. An intricate mechanism, rescued from its 2,000 year nest in a Greek shipwreck, the Antikythera M...
33. Ãœbersetzung Deutsch Griechisch Einführung zu Griechenland: Der offizielle Name von Griechenland ist die Hellenische Republik. Es liegt in Südöstlichem Europa und grenzt auf Bulgarien, die Ehemalige jugoslawische Republik von Makedonien, Albanien und die Türkei....
34. World Cup 2010 The 2010 FIFA World Cup will be the 19th FIFA World Cup, an international tournament for football, that is scheduled to take place between 11 June and 11 July 2010 in South Africa. It will be the first time that the tournament has been hosted by a na...
35. Greece Travel Tips In this Lens I thought I'd set out some tips and advice for anyone who may be thinking of visiting Greece for the first time. The tips below are aimed mainly at people going on holiday to Greece. However, I hope they may be useful for people travellin...
36. Unique Flag Shirts of Europe Have you travelled to Europe? Did you bring home a shirt with you? I admit that when I went to Italy, I was so overwhelmed withe the spectacular sights, that I wasn't thinking about t-shirts. But, I still wanted one. Imagine how happy I was to find t...
37. Black and White in Greece Kieselstein Pflaster ist wohl die früheste Form des Mosaik. Auf der Insel Chios in Griechenmland habe ich wundervolle Steinlegungen gefunden. Die symbolische Bedeutung dieses Pflasters geht aber über einfache Deutung hinaus und zeigt uns Licht und Sc...
38. Travel To Europe I'm making this page about European Travel because the countries in Europe are like nowhere else in the world. Culturally diverse with temperamental differences from Northern Europe to Southern Europe and with some of the friendliest people on earth...
39. Mama Mia! I had the pleasure of seeing Mama Mia! when it was in the movie theater here and currently I have the DVD. I think its a great movie, but then again I am a sucker for musicals in general. I thing that you must know is that once you see the movie, you...
40. Zeus the Thunderer : Tales of the Ancient Greeks Zeus was the supreme god and ruler of Olympus with titles like Lord of the Sky, Cloud- gatherer, Rain-god and Zeus the Thunderer. He was mighty, glorious, awesome, wise and mythology's most well-known philanderer. Through this less than noble behavi...