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Birds in a Gilded Cage
Nuremberg :: Germany | 1 month ago
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In the new exhibition, birds are depicted as messengers from the gods and as emblems of power, wealth and love...Petersburg Times Published: April 24, 2013 (Issue # 1756) A flock of ancient birds has taken up residence in one of the stately bedrooms
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Internet-connected sex toys let you "access" your long-distance partner
San Francisco :: CA :: USA | 2 months ago
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Sex in long-distance relationships often relies on prowess with one's own hand and a good imagination, but soon lovers separated by miles and oceans could get a little technological help. LovePalz claims to be the world's first Internet-enabled sex
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Getty to Return Ancient Artifact to Sicily
Date :: Japan | 4 months ago
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Paul Getty Museum has decided to voluntarily return a terracotta head believed to depict the god Hades to Sicily, where recent excavations have uncovered fragments indicating that the head was illicitly removed in the 1970s from a site of a sanctuary
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Can we bring the Greek Gods back, please?
Athens :: Greece | 5 months ago
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Has anyone else noticed modern organized religion is kind of a bummer? Even if your divine belief system isn't violently persecuting another, it seems like you're still trapped in a church singing dirges all Sunday...This is why I'd like to offer a
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Visualising Zeus's infidelities: the Greek god's affairs as chronicled over the centuries, laid out as a graphic
London :: United Kingdom | 5 months ago
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Dozens of authors have chronicled his relationships and offspring, with some of his lovers and children cited consistently, and others mentioned only in one or two accounts. Zeus is represented by the thick black lines, with his siblings and
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Owner of Zeus, the world's tallest dog, says her giant canine is so big children thinks he is a horse
London :: United Kingdom | 8 months ago
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14 September 2012 A 44in Great Dane has been named the world's tallest dog by Guinness World Records. Aptly named Zeus weighs 155lbs and reaches an astonishing height of 7ft 4in standing on his hind legs. Owner Denise Doorlag from Michigan says the
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The Saturday poem: For Theron of Akragas, Winner in the Olympic chariot-race, 476BC
London :: United Kingdom | 10 months ago
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To order a copy for £7.96 with free UK p&p call Guardian book service on 0330 333 6846 or go to guardian.co.uk/bookshop Send to a
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Obama's Blatant Idolatry
Jefferson City :: MO :: USA | 10 months ago
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When he said , We are no longer a Christian nation, he was not referring to the overwhelming number of God-fearing Americans whose faith and morality he is incapable of grasping. What Obama meant was: The anti-Christian, anti-God Democratic Party led
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COMMUNITY COMMENT: Women in general miss out on respect granted to mothers
Athens :: Greece | 1 year ago
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This is a paean of praise for all mothers and an ode of lament for all women...First; biological mothers keep us very safe in their womb during the gestation period, give birth to us, and suckle us at their breasts in early infancy. It is my
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In pictures: The first Olympic hotel
Athens :: NY :: USA | 1 year ago
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Every four years, some 40,000 ancient Greeks would gather under truce to celebrate the original Olympic games and pay due worship to the power and majesty of great father Zeus, "King of Gods and men". Captions by Paul Cartledge, A G Leventis
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