Posted in History, tagged courage, Crete, occupation, resistance, Verney on November 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The Right Reverend Stephen Verney, who died on November 9 aged 90, was an unconventional Bishop of Repton, in the diocese of Derby, from 1977 to 1985, and during the 1960s played an important part in the development of the vibrant church life that sprang from the consecration of the rebuilt Coventry Cathedral.
A deeply spiritual [...]
Posted in History, Life in Crete, tagged communism, Crete, Europa, Greek Mythology, Hungary, Plane tree, swans, Zeus on November 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
By Péter Zilahy
My mother couldn’t forgive the Soviet army for burning down the house she was born in, frying up the swans on the lake and driving off the three French nannies who had educated her as a child. She took it personally. If you have lived on the wrong side of the Iron Curtain, [...]
Posted in History, tagged Crete, Israel, Minoan, Minoan art on November 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Archaeologists from the University of Haifa, who are conducting excavations in the city of Tel Kabri, found Minoan style frescoes, similar to those discovered in the Aegean islands of Crete and Santorini dating back to the 17th century BC. These are the first such frescoes to be discovered in Israel.
According to scientists’ estimations, the wall [...]
Posted in History, tagged Crete, eruption, Minoan, Santorini, Thera, tsunami, volcano on November 5, 2009 | 1 Comment »
The massive eruption of the Thera volcano in the Aegean Sea more than 3,000 years ago produced killer waves that raced across hundreds of miles of the Eastern Mediterranean to inundate the area that is now Israel and probably other coastal sites, a team of scientists has found.
The team, writing in the October issue of [...]
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