Monthly Archives: Ιουλίου 2014

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As a breakthrough of experimental archeology can be viewed the team project "First Mariners," who built a raft by using only organic materials and copies of Paleolithic tools, and travelled on it from Kythira to Crete island, thus confirming archaeologists’ assumptions that Paleolithic populations were able to cross large shipping distances with their own makeshift boats. The First Mariners’ team started its journey with the raft named "Melida" from Kythira on July 17 and completed its venture by arriving in Chania, Crete on July 19.

The team was led by the 73 year-old historian and writer, Bob Hobman, who has built, filmed and navigated native craft through Indonesia’s Spice Islands and the Pacific for four decades.  Συνέχεια →

The island cherishes as many as 87 km of a coastline, of which 32 km are sandy beaches. Ios luckily boasts a very sound road network that provides visitors with easy and direct access to most of those. Of course, there are plenty of off-road routes if you are seeking for an adventure. Magical places will be reached that will reward you for your willingness to go a bit further beyond than the usual!

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Ios island has always been famed for its stunning beaches! The island cherishes as many as 87 km of a coastline, of which 32 km are sandy beaches. Ios luckily boasts a very sound road network that provides visitors with easy and direct access to most of those. Of course, there are plenty of off-road routes if you are seeking for an adventure. Magical places will be reached that will reward you for your willingness to go a bit further beyond than the usual! It is also worth mentioning that in Ios you will swim in four blue flag beaches from a total of 22 awarded ones on the 24 islands of the Cyclades.

Let’s start their exploration right here!

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This sounds like a movie script, but it actually happened in real life. Ken Heyman — an 83-year-old award-winning photographer was rummaging through his storage when a box labeled «Mothers» caught his eye. He had completely forgotten what was in it… When he opened the box, Mr. Heyman found a fascinating series of images of…

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The Hellenic American Leadership Council is hereby established to chart a new course for the Greek-American community: to ensure the continuity of a distinct and distinguished Greek- American community; to promote a renewed commitment to civic involvement, human rights and democratic values in the United States and around the world; and to enhance the historic relationship between the United States and worldwide Hellenism.

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About 100 passengers on the Malaysia Airlines plane shot down over eastern Ukraine on Thursday were headed to the biennial International AIDS Conference in Melbourne, Australia. It is one of the largest research conferences in the world, begun in 1985, where scientists, advocates, and policymakers gather to share the latest…

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Among the many lost were two giants of the HIV research community. “Both Joep Lange and Jacqueline van Tongeren meant a lot to us, as colleagues and as friends,” an anguished Brandon O’Dell of the Amsterdam Institute for Global Health and Development told me. Lange was once the president of the International AIDS Society, which organizes the conference. Van Tongeren, his partner, was a nurse and advocate and head of communications for the AIGHD.

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