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To: Cronos
The owners, at that time, sold them. The Acropolis, back then, was being and had been for a long time, slowly destroyed by pilferring of everything the local GREEK populace could lay their hands on. The Brits SAVED them for posterity !

The stinking Greek Commies ( bet ya didn't know this ! ) tried to get them back decades ago. It was NOT because of " cultural heritage "; it was to thumb their nose at " democarcy " and the Brits.

Greece isn't nearly as " open " a society, as you imagine it to be.

The British Museum owns those marbles fair & square ! They're beautiful, but not in great condition, due to the fact that the Greeks had once used them for target practice and building material.

You aren't making much sense. Facts and history matter; learn some and stop being such an emotional poster.

128 posted on 07/22/2003 1:09:11 AM PDT by nopardons
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To: nopardons
The Brits SAVED them for posterity !

Oh, please spare me. You haven't bought ino that myth have you? Read my previous posts, or any good book on the subject, or the original 1816 report by the British Government themselves that denounced the acquisition as one of theft ... and AFTER thatm THEN explain to me how they were perserved ..

133 posted on 07/22/2003 2:47:40 AM PDT by MrsEmmaPeel
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