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Temple of Apollo in Delos, Greece. Photograph: Andrew Morse/Alamy
Run-down heritage sites embarrass the Greeks
1 posted on 06/29/2008 10:58:53 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
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2 posted on 06/29/2008 11:00:57 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/_________________________Profile updated Friday, May 30, 2008)
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Hellenism alert!


4 posted on 06/29/2008 11:06:43 AM PDT by eleni121 (EN TOUTO NIKA!! +)
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5 posted on 06/29/2008 11:15:24 AM PDT by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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To: SunkenCiv

The Guardian operates using stealth tactics. There is so much more to this hit piece.

The story is far more complex and compelling than this kind of ambush “journalism” would want us to believe.

The running battle lies here really...with the struggle to return to Greece the stolen Parthenon Marbles (now placed forlornly and being damaged at the British Museum) to where they belong - at the Parthenon.

http://news.scotsman.com/uk/EasyJet-founder-gets-Elgin-marbles.4186878.jp


6 posted on 06/29/2008 11:22:25 AM PDT by eleni121 (EN TOUTO NIKA!! +)
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Talk about run-down.

That place is in ruins!

8 posted on 06/29/2008 11:28:33 AM PDT by SIDENET (Hubba Hubba...)
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I’ll go sit in the corner now.


9 posted on 06/29/2008 11:30:47 AM PDT by SIDENET (Hubba Hubba...)
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We get over to Greece fairly regularly. I can’t say as I ever found that the ancient sites were dirty. I did notice that the British tourists were, and generally drunk too, probably from drowning the shame brought on them by that thief Elgin.


20 posted on 06/29/2008 1:49:29 PM PDT by Kolokotronis (Christ is Risen, and you, o death, are annihilated)
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To: SunkenCiv

They’re ruins, so how can one tell they’re not being kept up?


29 posted on 06/29/2008 4:08:15 PM PDT by rabidralph (Dems now have Oil Derangement Syndrome)
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Let's make it as clear as possible. Ancient ruins and excavations are valuable only to satisfy the thirst of foreigners and tourists, and the resulting income to the locals.

Take that away, and the ruins would revert to their inevitable disappearance.

Limit the interest to the locals and these sites would simply disappear.

The locals concentrate on what really matters to them: surviving, or catching up with the 17th century.

36 posted on 08/04/2008 11:16:04 AM PDT by Publius6961 (You're Government, it's not your money, and you never have to show a profit.)
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