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• Erotic art exhibit bares all

  
  Gadling — Authority: 704
  Filed under: Arts and Culture , History , Learning , Europe , Greece When you think of art exhibits, you probably dont think of scenes of group sex, gigantic phalli, and barnyard animals, but the Eros exhibition aint your grandmas art show. In fact, when this art was made, your grandma wouldnt be born for ...
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• R.O.C.K.s chapter in Athens stocks up on petrol and Bics.

  
  NA Confidential — Authority: 430
  The Guardian talks sex lives of the ancient Greeks , and we can only hope that the exhibition described within eventually comes to rest across the street from the creation museum up in Kaintuck. The ancient Greeks were never at a loss for words when it came to love and lust – and an exhibition that opened in ...
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• Youth get in bed together on Lennon anniversary

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 135
  It was 29 years ago today that a lone gunman assassinated John Lennon and the anniversary was the spur behind a youth "bed in" at the COP15 conference center. Socres of young folks from around the world used the day to remember Lennons famous bed-in protest of the Vietnam War and to put their own spin on it. They ...
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• Thank you, EPA: U.S. solar companies

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 135
  Many businesses chafed on Monday at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s declaration that greenhouse gas emissions endanger human health. But executives at the two largest U.S. solar power companies took a shine to the statement, which clears the way for federal regulation and came as a global climate ...
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• Fossil of the Day Award: And the winner is…

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 135
  The UN Conference on Climate Change is a weighty gathering of serious folks looking for a way to cut carbon emissions. Its also a great place to bring some much-needed humor and along the way hammer a few perceived laggers in the fight against global warming. Enter the Fossil of the Day Awards, a tongue-in-cheek ...
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• Icebergs, Copenhagen hot topics in Southern Ocean

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 135
  The Southern Ocean is toying with us, like some killer whale tossing its prey before devouring it. The small French research ship l’Astrolabe is being battered by 55 kmh (35 mph) winds and tossed like a cork in icy, three metre (9 feet) waves. Many onboard have retreated to the safety of their bunks where, ...
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• Allard Piersonmuseum, Amsterdam

  
  New at LacusCurtius & Livius — Authority: 465
  Athena, on a bottle from Athens, early fifth century BCE The Allard Piersonmuseum , the home of the archaeological collection of the University of Amsterdam, is one of the nicest museums I know. I may be biased, though, because Amsterdam is my hometown. I cycle along the museum nearly every day and am a regular ...
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• Nicholas of Myra

  
  New at LacusCurtius & Livius — Authority: 465
  Nicholas strikes his opponent. Fresco from Soumela Nicholas was bishop of the Lycian port of Myra , and died on December 6. The year of his death has not been recorded, although a late tradition suggests that it may have been 342 or 343. The stories about him usually have parallels in Anatolian folklore ...
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• Taking the Tesla for a spin

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 135
  We took a short spin in a Tesla to see what an all-electric sports car was like. The Roadster Sport wasn’t totally silent, but it wasn’t loud — and it was fast (zero to 60 miles per hour in under 4 seconds). We got lots of looks, too. Tesla calls it “performance with a clean conscience” but building the ...
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• U.S. says no to Arctic fishing

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 135
  (Reporting by Yereth Rosen in Alaska) There is currently no commercial fishing conducted in U.S. Arctic waters, and now there won’t be: a formal ban on commercial seafood harvests in U.S. waters north of the Bering Strait went into effect on Thursday. Environmentalists and fishery managers applauded the move as a ...
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• Forest carbon schemes – new hope for the Amazon?

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 135
  By Stuart Grudgings In the tiny settlement of Boa Frente on the banks of a tributary to the Amazon river, bright blue butterflies flitting through trees and the constant squawks of parrots add to the feeling of a paradise on earth. The poverty endured by most of its residents quickly shatters that illusion, but ...
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• What to do while the world burns

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 135
  A firefighter puts out a fire at a village near Bangkok March 31, 2008. REUTERS/Sukree Sukplang This opinion piece by Mort Rosenblum originally appeared in GlobalPost . The views expressed are his own. For the full article, click here . PARIS, France — Back when primal-scream therapy was the rage in ...
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• Sailing into an icy cauldron

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 135
  Reuters employee Pauline Askin has sailed for the Antarctic  for a six -week expedition on the icy continent where she will help restore Mawson’s huts named after Australia’s most celebrated Antarctic explorer on Commonwealth Bay, the windiest place on earth. During the expedition, Pauline will report on ...
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• Glory of Heracles Comes To North America

  
  Platform Nation — Authority: 514
  The wonder of ancient Greece will come to life on Jan. 18 2010, when Glory of Heracles launches exclusively for Nintendo DS and Nintendo DSi. The game is the first in the popular Japanese Heracles series to launch in the United States. Nintendo hasn’t mentioned this RPG since it added Glory of Heracles to it’s ...
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• Ancient Greece : Index

  
  Boris Johnson — Authority: 483
  Lessons of the PastBoris Johnson has spoken of the contribution a knowledge of the classics can make to understanding our own times. In the modern political world — as in the ancient — the same theme is played out again and again … with the same characters : political leaders that let power go to [...]
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• Ancient Greece : Pericles (Part III)

  
  Boris Johnson — Authority: 483
  Boris Johnson has often spoken of his love of Greek history and of Pericles in particular. When asked who his historical pin-up was and why, he replied: “Pericles. Look at his Funeral Speech: democracy; freedom — champion stuff.” — Read the full interview.A few years ago he went to the British Museum and ...
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• After 25 years impact of Bhopal leak lingers

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 135
  Controversy still surrounds one of the worlds worst industrial accidents 25 years after an estimated 8,000 people died in the immediate aftermath of a toxic gas leak in Bhopal, India. At around midnight on December 3, 1984, a leak at a Union Carbide plant of methyl isocyanate gas -- a chemical compound used ...
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• Eros in China

  
  KALLISTI: An Apple in Pandemonium — Authority: 112
  A Chinese news source, Xinhua Net , has reported that the subject of two small statuettes discovered in the 1980s are probably representations of Eros . These two bronze figures feature a boy whose wings lift upward at the tips, a feature rare among images of Chinese gods. The statues date to about 500 C.E. This ...
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• Ancient Greece : Index

  
  Boris Johnson — Authority: 483
  Lessons of the PastBoris Johnson has spoken of the contribution a knowledge of the classics can make to understanding our own times. In the modern political world — as in the ancient — the same theme is played out again and again … with the same characters : political leaders that let power go to [...]
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• We need beauty - a note on Byzantium

  
  Ellopos Blog — Authority: 99
  Read at Aeneas Quest a post that draws a distinction between modern colonial imperialism and the practice of ancient Greeks to found colonies in various places around (what today is) Greece. Main differences are that 1) Greeks did not oppress the peoples where they founded new cities, 2) they did not make colonies for ...
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