Mount Athos Nears 1000th Anniversary Amid Declining Population
Mount Athos, a self-governing Orthodox peninsula in Greece, faces population decline from historic highs near 20,000 to under 3,000 today. The article details monastic life, priceless Byzantine treasures, and the shifting balance of monks and visitors as modern pressures test the ancient spiritual community.
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Salonika
Mount Athos
Athos
Strin
Donia
Aegean
Natitional Geographic Society
Holy Mountain
Europe
Elkhart
Ind
National Geographic
Willis
Vatican City
UPI
Buti
Carless
Berwood
Iit
South Korea
Vatican Links With ROK Amid Odd Pact Tales
Inland and foreign intrigue mix as a garbled report discusses Vatican relations with the ROK and a controversial 20 year pact. The text references Brezhnev, Czech leaders, and a Prague castle scene with birds and cats, suggesting a jumble of diplomatic and domestic themes.
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Russia
Czechoslovakia
Leonid
Brezhnev
Prague
Hradens
Arlington Cemetery Holds Two Presidents
Arlington National Cemetery near Washington D C holds presidents John F Kennedy and William Howard Taft among its vast memorials. The article traces its origins from a Virginia grant to ship captain Hewsen through Custis Lee and the Civil War to the formal designation as a national cemetery in 1864. It notes burials continue at about 90 weekly with space projected to fill by 1988 and lists notable interments including Pershing Marshall Byrd Peary Bryan Lincoln and Kennedy.
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Arlington
National Cemetery
John F. Kennedy
Virginia
Potomac River
Washington, D. C
United States
William Howard Taft
Robert Hewsen
New World
National Geographic Society
John Parke Custis
George Washington
Northampton County
Custis
George Washington Parke Custis
Robert £. Lee
Custis-Lee
Kennedy
Lee
Bull Run
Alexandria
Montgomery Meigs
Army
Lincoln
Meigs
Aac
William Chrisman
67Th Pennsylvania Infantry
Chrisman
United States Armed Forces
Korea
Maine
Havana Harbor
John J. Pershing
George C. Marshall
Richard E. Byrd
Robert E. Peary
William Jennings Bryan
Robert Todd Lincoln
Lawn Mower for Christmas and Thoughtful Garden Gifts
Purdue University extension horticulturists suggest gifts for home gardeners beyond a mower. Practical ideas include pruning shears trowels and electric hedge trimmers, garden books, gardening magazines, a fluorescent light setup for year round indoor gardening, and Christmas plants like poinsettias azaleas and chrysanthemums.
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Lafayette
Purdue University Extension Horticulturists
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