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International Lighthouses Screensaver

The Free International Lighthouses Screensaver by ScenicReflections.com displays 45 beautiful and stunning images of lighthouses from Australia and Greece - some of the most beautiful lighthouse images you may ever see! Accompanying this free screensaver are 3 beautiful, full-length, cd-quality musical compositions by Cynthia Jordan....
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Salonica- City of Ghosts - Christians- Muslims and Jews- 1430-1950

4 stars (History Matters) - Mazower captures in remarkable ways the history of Salonica, a town which is today in northern Greece. At the same time many events that took place at Salonica were repercussions and optics on European and Middle Eastern history as a whole. For very different reasons at different epocs, Salonica found itself responding to events far beyond its shores. In the fifteenth century it became the home of many Jews expelled from Spain. After centuries under Ottoman rule, in the twentieth century it saw the return of Greek rule and then the forced removal of its large Jewish population under German occupation. The story of Salonica is an illustration of the ways in which a single physical place has seen whole communities come and go, typically under tragic circumstances. The book reminds us of how difficult it is for human beings with different beliefs and ideologies to live peacefully together. For many centuries this was achieved in Salonica, but then something changes and persecutions and emigrations follow. Mazower tells these stories without any attempt to prove a thesis about inter-faith or even human relations. There are interesting individuals but no heroes or saints. Communities do good things and do bad things. It is a story of many human lives that would otherwise have been buried with the communities that over the years have been forced to leave and officially left out of the city's history. After reding it Salonica will be on my next trip to Europe! 5 stars (Thessaloniki Explained) - The Mazower book is superb. It makes the city come alive with a careful and thorough review of the city's history. Its ethnic composition was fascinating to explore. His footnotes put me on to two other books which added even more to the story of this intriguing city. He made some of what I have felt on my several visits become clear. Although he writes in a precise chronological manner, he inserts up-to-date observations which make the mosaic of T...
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Ancient Greece

Take a walk back in time with the Ancient Greece Screensaver by Aktina. The sensation of being in anceint Greece becomes almost reality as the past comes to life through images of ancient temples, monuments, theaters, palaces, houses, frescos, jewlry and statues. FIFTY SIX ! (Yes 56 !), stunning images capturing the beauty of what has been left as a testemony to the classical world of ancient Greece...
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