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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2009 20:49:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sphinx, the Panagia of Egypt Few historical monuments in the world have been celebrated like the Egyptian Great Sphinx. For over four millennia, it has been towering imperiously above the Giza desert, contemplating the passage of time and listening to the wishes, promises and desires of the people. The monument&#8217;s history begins shortly after the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=morarwen.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5675601&amp;post=449&amp;subd=morarwen&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Drop of History 131</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2009 20:37:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One, sweet, coming up The fascinating adventures of coffee Augusto Fausto Nairone, in a book published in Rome in 1671, is the first author to make reference to the history of the most famous beverage in the world, coffee. He recounts the following Arabian legend: &#8220;A goatherd who tended the flocks of a monastery on [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=morarwen.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5675601&amp;post=447&amp;subd=morarwen&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2009 20:29:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The history of taxes A nuisance rising to a fine art through the ages Filing tax returns has always been a nightmare for the common citizen. All those numbers, the paperwork, the documents and certificates, all they manage to cause is headache and terror. Would it make you feel better to know that taxation has [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=morarwen.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5675601&amp;post=445&amp;subd=morarwen&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Drop of History 129</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2009 20:20:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The tarmac comes to the streets of Athens When man-carriers protested the paving of Aeolou Street It was 1905 when the tarmac debuted in the Greek capital. That year, during the second term of Spyros Merkouris as mayor, the first paving works started on Aeolou Street, spreading later to other downtown streets. Until then, the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=morarwen.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5675601&amp;post=442&amp;subd=morarwen&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2009 13:14:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A day in the life of a Milan duke Luxuries that would make a modern tycoon feel poor Dmitri Merezhkovsky, a Russian philosopher and novelist (who died of starvation in Paris during World War II) describes in his book Leonardo Da Vinci the life of a Milanese duke around 1500. His account has special value [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=morarwen.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5675601&amp;post=439&amp;subd=morarwen&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2009 12:58:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Smokers: steadfast sponsors of the state The first taxes on tobacco in Greece Now that smokers are under merciless persecution, it is worth taking a look at the history of production and consumption of cigarettes in Greece. The first ready-made tobacco products, or rather a primitive version of modern cigarettes, appeared in our country in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=morarwen.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5675601&amp;post=436&amp;subd=morarwen&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2009 12:41:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nero at the Olympics Instances of incredible obsequiousness towards the mad emperor We Greeks have written many pages of glory and grandeur, but, throughout the course of our long history, we have also done things for which we should not be proud at all. All Greeks? Of course not, and not so much the populace [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=morarwen.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5675601&amp;post=432&amp;subd=morarwen&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2009 11:36:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Prostitution (2) When brothels were next door to churches When Christianity prevailed in the Roman world, a solution to the widespread phenomenon of prostitution had to be found. Theoretically, its prohibition and condemnation were absolute. Besides, the fact that many pagan temples doubled up as brothels was one of the main arguments of the Christian [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=morarwen.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5675601&amp;post=430&amp;subd=morarwen&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2009 10:58:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Prostitution (1) When the state lived on brothel taxes The first state brothels to be found in world history were established here in Greece, under the famous legislation of Solon the Athenian. In his legislative reformation, in the 6th century BCE, the father of democracy makes a distinction between hetairai (sophisticated courtesans) and common prostitutes, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=morarwen.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5675601&amp;post=426&amp;subd=morarwen&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 10:58:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Alexander&#8217;s prophecy And yet, conquered Persia considered him a devil Alexander the Great started out from poor little mountainous Greece and in three years conquered almost the entire known world. If we consider Macedonia alone as his homeland, then he increased thousandfold the area of the state he ruled when his father, Philip II, was [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=morarwen.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5675601&amp;post=423&amp;subd=morarwen&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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