How To Use Greece In A Sentence
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Known as far back as 400 B.C.E. Greece, comfrey is an extraordinary plant whose name derives from the Latin conferva, meaning "water plant healer.
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The University of Pennsylvania Museum features everything from a nineteenth-century bronze cast of the satyr Silenos (left), to a helmet from the eighth-century B.C. (center), to an aryballos (right) from eastern Greece, ca. 600-570 B.C.
Museums: Classics in the City of Brotherly Love
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Sparta freed many cities, including Athens, from their tyrants, fought bravely for Greek freedom from the Persians, and then claimed to be freeing Greece from Athens at the beginning of the Peloponnesian War.
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After the triumph followed the faire Parthenopeian _Leria_, with a lawrell crowne, accompanied with _Melanthia_, whose habites and voices represented the pride of Greece, [A] whereupon the great Macedon rested his head: She bare a splendent lampe, communicating the light thereof with hir companion, then the rest more excellent both in voice and song.
Hypnerotomachia The Strife of Loue in a Dreame
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But army hard-liners, led by Mr. Ioannidis, staged a successful countercoup on Nov. 25, 1973, and ruled Greece with increasing harshness and incompetence for the next eight months.
Dimitrios Ioannidis, 87, dies; former Greece security chief led countercoup
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The splendor of the ancient calligraphical productions of Greece, [79] and the still later ones of Rome, bear repeated testimony that the practice of this art had spread during the sixth century, if not earlier, to these powerful empires.
Bibliomania in the Middle Ages
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In the armies of classical Greece, the paean or war-chant was the standard opening to set-piece battles.
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In the early nineteenth century Greece was the focus of a cultural movement, an idealizing "Hellenism," and international political involvement in the War of Independence against the Ottoman
Note: Greece
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I have a chapter on Shakespeare and Macbeth; there's the chapter about Ancient Greece, a chapter about Delphi and sibyls in Grecian-Roman times.
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Australia play rivals New Zealand while the Americans, two-times defending gold medallists, tip off against Greece.
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In Greece, rich aristocrats used gold and silver in life, while poor rustics used wooden vessels.
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Here you have in very simplified terms the antecedents of modern Greece.
Giorgos Seferis - Nobel Lecture
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Greece's rating was downgraded to junk status last year owing to the risk of default.
Times, Sunday Times
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Hemingway, who had become a journalist before the war, married Elisabeth Hadley, and went to report on the war in Greece and Turkey.
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It was found that certain cliques of countries within the same geographic region, like Greece and Cyprus, are likely to vote similarly.
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And he aims to ensure he wins in Greece by spending the next month canvassing for votes in rival countries.
The Sun
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The Phnicians spread this androgynic worship over Greece.
Arabian nights. English
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She's off to Greece for a month-lucky devil!
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Dan, and Greece, and Mosel have set forth in thy marts wrought iron: stacte, and calamus were in thy market.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete The Challoner Revision
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Thessaly is a powerful and immortal witch who has been around since the times of Ancient Greece.
Dewey's Amazing Graphic Novels Challenge!
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Greece has been rocked by riots and industrial action in protest over spending cuts by the government.
The Sun
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Ironically, a nation of know-nothings is secretly guided by adherents of an esoteric political tradition rooted in a grand conversation among philosophers ranging from ancient Greece to Weimar Germany.
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Jean-Claude Trichet hard line that the ECB collateral rules are graved in stone, therefore beware of downgrades in Greece, Spain, and Latvia.
Lawrence G. McDonald: Weekly Market Wrap From Inside Wall Street
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Similar cosmological impressions stir in "gnostic" tracts dating from Sumer, Egypt, Persia, India, the Far East, Greece, Anatolia, etc., - not to mention Christianity - eg. the cosmic Christ - or - "cosmocrator".
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Instead of searching for a modern definition of culture, Nietzsche transposes an archaic ideal of culture (modeled after the stratified society of ancient Greece) onto modern society.
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Greece has promised to make casts of the sculptures for the British Museum and bear all the costs of returning them to Athens.
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The deal must be ratified by Greece before the money can be released.
The Sun
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But the Turkish border with Greece introspection Frontier Province Edirne is that this wall may be no effect.
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Bangladeshi Muslim immigrants living in the northern port city of Thessaloniki in Greece, offer Eid al-Adha prayers on November 6, 2011.
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GREECE has promised big cutbacks in exchange for a three-year emergency loan from the European bailout fund.
The Sun
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The book's elaborate introduction claims that this collection of "fragments" is the decoded version of a text "dating from classical Greece or earlier" (xiii), purporting to anthologize the work of the Homerids (who were real).
The Little Professor:
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In what IMF chief Christine Lagarde called a "game-changing decisions," the eurozone also agreed to extend loan repayments and lower interest rates for Greece, Ireland and Portugal.
Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion
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Greece was the cradle of western civilization.
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The most effective way of ensuring that Greece retains the currency peg is twofold.
Times, Sunday Times
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This kid is amazing although he has recently had a sudden dip in form which has concerned me such as his game foe England against Greece in which he misplaced too many passes.
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In Greece there is two options, pain or default, or what I call a slight combination of the two, pain and restructuring with external support from your European partners and your friends in Washington," Buiter said.
George Papandreou, Greece Prime Minister, To Outline Needed Budget Cuts
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Freedom from children also means liberation from school-holiday travel - great news, because Greece in the springtime is pure enchantment.
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At the site, which dates from the Bronze Age, the team found stores of metal spears, ritual sites and numerous imports from Greece.
Trude Dothan.
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Greece's attempts to get the British government to return the Elgin Marbles have met another roadblock, this time from within.
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Being a son of the wilderness, Owen Dugdale had probably never heard of the kindred terrors that used to lie in wait for the bold mariners of ancient Greece -- the rock and the whirlpool known as Scylla and
Canoe Mates in Canada Three Boys Afloat on the Saskatchewan
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Releasing more bailout funds will require the International Monetary Fund and European institutions to vouchsafe that Greece has not fallen short of its privatization and austerity pledges and the IMF will have to maintain that Greece's mountainous debt burden is sustainable.
Move Buys Time for Greece, But Growing Debt Looms
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Spain and Greece have been popular summer holiday destinations for the Dutch for many years.
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In Greece, a four-hour nationwide strike against war paralysed the country.
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THE chaos in debt-laden Greece deepened yesterday as unions vowed to fight government cuts.
The Sun
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What Aristotle had written in ancient Greece, classifying the minerals known then, remained unchallenged and unimproved into the nineteenth century.
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A string of unexpected Olympic successes - Greece has picked up two gold medals and a bronze so far - has helped to assuage national pride.
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Second was the failure of the recent Truman Doctrine – an outspoken scheme to help Greece and Turkey fight Soviet pressures – to indicate a constructive way forward for all.
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Socratic irony had its particular meaning in the context of ancient Greece. It was just an "act" put on by Socrates which demonstrated his nature, when he spoke to people.
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The last time a referendum was held in Greece was in 1974 to confirm the setting up of the republic and abolition of the monarchy.
Times, Sunday Times
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Georgios no-mates Why Greece struggles to get along with its neighbours
The Economist: Daily news and views
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Alex's mother went to Greece for a holiday, met his father, fell in love, and decided to stay there.
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The history of ancient Greece and Greek mythology that I studied in high school and college all came alive for me on this trip.
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At the blatting of my morning alarm, the signal shifted again to bring me the smarmy voice of Rick Santorum, a menacing rumble from the streets of Greece, and a bitter harpy of a chant that said I now have more past than future.
Yakkety-Yak
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The declines came after a strong week for the euro as worries about Greece appeared to abate.
Euro Drops After Moody's Downgrades Portugal
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As art historians Alex Nagel and Chris Woods have argued, by faithfully depicting a Greek from the east, Pisanello may have felt he was also looking back in time at the Greece of Socrates and Praxiteles.
Gopnik's Daily Pic: The first commemorative medal
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Place: -- the temporal mood of the Oversoul, playing through that particular facet of the dodecahedron, which is Greece.
The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19
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Ms. Tsangari, who grew up in Greece and has a master's degree in performance studies from New York University, was an associate producer on "Dogtooth," a New Directors selection from last year.
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Brue's search for the perfect bath takes her from Turkey, land of the hammam, to Greece, Russia, Finland and even Japan.
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In fact, the tourists are flocking to Greece in even bigger numbers than ever for this time of the year, trying to miss the Olympic crush in August.
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Greece is fully funded this year through the loan but will have to raise between €25 billion and €30 billion next year through long-term issuance of bonds.
Euro-Zone Nations Keep Wary Eye on Greece
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The chief divisions of the kingdom are Northern Greece, or Hellas, lying north of the Gulf of Lepanto; the peninsula of the Morea, connected with the mainland by the Isthmus of Corinth; and various islands scattered over the greater part of the Grecian Archipelago.
A Geography for Beginners.
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Platonism began the West's pursuit of abstract truth from the times of ancient Greece.
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The Egyptians under the Hyksos pharaohs invaded the Near East, and then came to Greece.
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The 48-hour ban on outbound mail comes after almost a dozen booby-trapped parcels were discovered in Greece and around Europe since Monday, including mail bombs targeting French and Italian leaders and one that reached the office of German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
Greece Halts Mail, Hunts Bomb Suspects
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The only way for this to happen is for Greece to leave the euro.
Times, Sunday Times
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A similar, coeval flux of Pelagonian material has been recognized in the Mesohellenic molasse basin of northern Greece.
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$2.39 billion to $12.85 billion during the week when the main American indices plunged more than five per cent as the escalating Greece debt crisis rattled the global markets during the week.
The Times of India
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Among Greeks the word "unionist" is rendered as "enotist" — someone who supports enosis, or union, between Greece and John Bull's other European colony, Cyprus.
The Perils of Partition
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That would help ensure the European economy can continue to expand while economically troubled countries like Spain and Greece make wrenching cutbacks to reduce out-of-control deficits.
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Yet it is quite clear that Greece's debt obligations have become impossible to meet.
Times, Sunday Times
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Bloomberg 2010 Yuan winners and losers from Reuters: www. reuters.com China Chinese peg yuan relaxes unpegs dollar goldman sachs Greece G20 G-20 european union eu spain pigs euro interest rates bric brazil Russia india revalue
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Alexander the Great beat every opponent between Greece and India.
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In ancient Greece and Rome, a pinacotheca was a picture gallery.
Stars and Stripes
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Meursius is of opinion, that the Greeks borrowed their notion of these divinities from the Phœnicians, for _nympha_, in their language, signifying _soul_, the Greeks imagined that the souls of the ancient inhabitants of Greece had become Nymphs; particularly that the souls of those who had inhabited the woods were called Dryads; those who inhabited the mountains, Oreădes; those who dwelt on the sea-coasts,
Roman Antiquities, and Ancient Mythology For Classical Schools (2nd ed)
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The Hellenistic mind of the Byzantines allowed musicians to draw systems of tones from the music of ancient Greece.
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The cost to Greece of default is relatively trivial compared to the cost to its creditors, mostly European banks uneager to take large write-downs.
Everything's Fine With Greece, Just Ignore Some Facts
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In 1826, he had made a major botanical trip to the Ionian Islands off the west coast of Greece - to Corfu, Zante and Cefalonia - setting up a herbarium of Ionian plants, which are now held at Kew.
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The main purpose of his holiday to Greece was to go diving.
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In July of this year, she even participated in a karate tournament in Greece and placed fourth out of eight participants in her category of Kata, which is a sequence of movements in karate used for training or to demonstrate technique.
TrinidadExpress Today's News
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Greece is fully funded this year through the bailout loan, but it will have to raise between €25 billion and €30 billion next year through long-term issuance of bonds.
Most of Euro Zone Expecting Greek Restructuring
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Unprettily dubbed FYROM (Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia), it's not recognised as a state by neighbouring Greece because of the name issue - mention the word Macedonia to a Greek and they will instantly froth at the mouth.
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The group is seen as antiauthoritarian and the targets may reflect their opposition to Greece's recent austerity program following a European Union-sponsored € 110 billion ($153.6 billion) bailout for the country earlier this year.
Greece Halts Mail, Hunts Bomb Suspects
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To describe a single extrasystole, an ectopic heartbeat, as like a slight stumble in a dance and to introduce the complex mechanism of hearing with the statement that 'every one of us has a tiny harp inside his ear' suggests that he is a skillful teacher.… The kathartai, forerunners of doctors in pre-Hippocratic Greece, were said to purify the soul by the soothing and calming combination of music, dance, poetry and song.
The Chicago Blog: April 2006 Archives
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It is in the culture of African Americans that orality reigns supreme, where the poets, the preachers, and other people of the word command respect and authority in the African American community, as did the orators of ancient Greece.
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BERLIN - The seven nations that have ordered the Airbus A400M military transporter would be willing to contribute a maximum of euro2 billion ($2.81 billion) in extra Minister Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg increased the pressure on aerospace firm EADS going into crucial negotiations Thursday in Berlin about the company's Markets give Greece a breather on EU rescue hopes * EU countries, led by
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In Greece itself, the switch to the new drachma would probably not be announced in advance.
Times, Sunday Times
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The problem of any classically educated writer's falling in love with Greece was how to reconcile the provincial reality with the idealized images.
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Israel believes that the fly-in was organized after an aid flotilla that planned to bring hundreds of activists to break the Israeli naval blockade on the Gaza Strip was banned from leaving ports in Greece.
Israel on Alert as Pro-Palestinian Activists Plan ‘Fly-In'
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It will be transited via Greece, but the fees that will be asked are not yet clear.
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Greece's affable, easy-going ways have long made it a favourite with families.
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Katseli also said she would listen to Papandreou's speech tonight before deciding whether to back him.5.14pm: Before things get too heated in Greece, let's post this jolly tale from David Gow:The "live ticker" on spiegel.de has made a wonderful contribution to German-Hellenic understanding by quoting at length Uli Hoeness - remember him England?
Greek PM Papandreou wins confidence vote - November 4 2011
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The heroic Greece of the Homeric poems is already a Greece fragmented into independent city-states.
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They will talk of prisons in Greece, of frightful justice systems, and of a nerve-racking ordeal which the enthusiast is never likely to forget.
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My fumbling attempt to answer Justice McHugh is to this effect, that of course there can be the extraterritorial legislation which makes part of the record, treats as the Tribunal's doings what is done in Greece.
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Forays were also made to Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, and Greece to bomb airfields and ports used by the Germans.
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The temple is one of the glories of ancient Greece.
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A painter friend who lived in Greece for awhile said he thought the calcimining done each spring in villages probably had very little binder and seemed flaky as he remembered.
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An island of northeast Greece Aegean Sea off the coast of Turkey northwest of Lesbos.
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Sometimes they flourished as city-state systems, as in early Sumeria, classical Greece, the Maya civilization, and medieval Europe.
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An ancient port of east-central Greece in Boeotia. According to tradition, it was the embarkation point for the Greek fleet during the Trojan War.
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Germany may have to rescue Greece to save the euro.
The Sun
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With an eye toward the 2006 Olympic Games in Turin, Italy, Chelios wants to become a bobsledding brakeman - for Greece.
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The Phœnicians spread this androgynic worship over Greece.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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They also nourished hopes of using the thousand or so of their servicemen who had joined the British evacuation from Greece to Egypt as the nucleus of an army to be raised among Yugoslav emigrants in the Americas.
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I am obliged always to use the English word 'Grace' in two senses, but remember that the Greek [Greek: charis] includes them both (the bestowing, that is to say, of Beauty and Mercy); and especially it includes these in the passage of Pindar's first ode, which gives us the key to the right interpretation of the power of sculpture in Greece.
Aratra Pentelici, Seven Lectures on the Elements of Sculpture Given before the University of Oxford in Michaelmas Term, 1870
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Perhaps five or six countries were in a fit state to cope with the rigours of the euro; 11 – including Greece, Portugal, Italy, Ireland and Spain – were founder members.
Greece must exit the eurozone
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The star of the new play in the Dionysia Amphitheater—the biggest theater in all of Greece—has gotten a bad case of catarrh!
Artemis the Brave
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It could be used as a fighting platform, or, as in the Phoenician biremes of Sennacherib and Sargon, as accommodation for passengers though this does not seem to have been the practice in Greece.
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The euro is "ludicrously" high for many of the struggling European countries such as Greece, but it is even too high for Germany, which is a competitive country.
British Blogs
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From there on the team would proceed to Greece, Italy, France, Spain and Morocco, before reaching the final stop in England, where it was flagged off on August 6.
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An Australian division scheduled for assignment to Greece was ordered to remain in Egypt.
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What is clear is that EU governments do not want to let Greece off the hook - and that any option would force Greece to make long-delayed reforms to rife tax evasion, rigid labor market rules and an inefficient andhigh-spending pension and health care system.
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These principles, bravest of men, might have suited the simple ages of Greece and Rome; a Phocion or a Fabricius might have uttered the like, and compelled the homage of their enemies; but in these days, such magnanimity is considered frenzy, and ruin is its consequence.
The Scottish Chiefs
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Greece, and, what is worse, from a natural or habitual hebetude, not very adroit, at learning any Thing.
John Adams autobiography, part 1, "John Adams," through 1776
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Greece is an unresolved problem that could turn out badly.
Times, Sunday Times
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We're on a guided tour in Greece [led by Nia Vardalos]," Dratch said when we caught up with her at the premiere of "Synecdoche," "which meant we got to be in Spain and Greece," at such monumental locations as Delphia, Epidaurus, ancient Olympia, and the Acropolis, which the country's archaeological council green-lit for the first time to use on film.
‘SNL’ Star Rachel Dratch Gets Obnoxious In ‘My Life In Ruins’ » MTV Movies Blog
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Theseus: Come forward. Let us finally see who is the greatest warrior in all of Greece.
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The parochial provincialism of mindless Eurocentrism has distorted the history of civilization as originating in Greece while summing up India's contribution in a line or two.
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At 20 miles long and four to eight miles wide, the isthmus connects central Greece with the Peloponnese peninsula.
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While full dissolution is unlikely at this point I can see the Baltic States not making their final qualifications needed to adopt the Euro and I could see someone like Greece, Spain or Portugal reverting to their old domestic currencies.
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Metal helmets were worn by hoplites, the foot soldiers of ancient Greece, and elsewhere in eastern Mediterranean civilizations.
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It was an approach primarily focused on syntax, accidence, and grammar with little attention focused on the culture, art, philosophy, science, religion, or the general society of ancient Greece and Rome.
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The centre-left party has imploded since leading Greece into crisis with scores of its members defecting to other parties.
Times, Sunday Times
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The theory of modern natural laws inherits and develops the heritage of traditional natural laws in the period of the ancient Greece, the ancient Roman, and the Christian scholasticism.
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The political rationale for this initiative lay in nationalist concerns about Turkey, which prevailed during the period, as well as in the long-standing concerns about the 'demographic problem' given the low birth rate in Greece.
Arms and the Woman: Just Warriors and Greek Feminist Identity
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These monasteries preserved the cultural riches of Greece and Rome, as well as the growing wisdom accumulated by the Church herself.
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Equities faced pressure from a stronger U.S. dollar after Dubai's unresolved debt problems and Fitch Ratings' downgrade of Greece's bond rating dented risk appetite.
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The findings of the Heraion prove that this sexagesimal submultiple was once used also in Greece proper.
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After the company stopped producing at its giant oil field (the size of Greece) in Southern Sudan over twenty years ago, it continued to pay royalties to maintain its right to come back one day.
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At least in the countries where the greatest stress has been laid on that influence, and the greatest exertions made for it, the _least good_ has been done -- the Queen means in Spain, Portugal, and Greece.
The Letters of Queen Victoria, Vol 2 (of 3), 1844-1853 A Selection from her Majesty's correspondence between the years 1837 and 1861
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The city of Mycenae played a crucial role in the history of Greece.
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He conquered the Sudan and quelled a rebellion in Greece.
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Well the area of Greece, particularly Crete, is a typical location where you have what is called a chaparral environment or biome.
Olives and People, Past and Present
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The Eiffel Tower in Paris, the Parthenon in Greece, the downtown police station in Venice.
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Is then this a fellow fit to be believed when he writes of any man or city, who in one word deprives Greece of the victory, throws down the trophy, and pronounces the inscriptions they had set up to Diana Proseoa (EASTWARD-FACING) to be nothing but pride and vain boasting?
Essays and Miscellanies
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Every quarter the EU, the IMF and the European Central Bank (ECB) scrutinise Greece before releasing the next chunk of money.
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She arrived at 17, "extraordinary of my parents to let me", and after the Colonels took over Greece and her father's business "went belly-up", worked six days a week in the Mayfair Hotel as a room-service telephonist to pay for her O and A-levels: "It was rather fun," she says.
Vicky Pryce: 'I thought we were a unit'
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All other vine varieties, Pliny asserts confidently, are imports from Greece.
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Doula is a Greek word meaning slave or servant and stems from ancient Greece where the doula was the top-notch home help privileged to help the lady of the house give birth.
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The victors of the Olympic Games in ancient Greece were awarded crowns made of olive branches.
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He insisted that the definition of "proselytism" is in line with a European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) case from 1993 that upheld the rights of a Jehovah's Witness, Minos Kokkinakis, who had been punished for spreading his faith in his native Greece (see MS Word text of the judgement,
Forum 18 News Service
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Greece edged towards the brink yesterday as Athens struggled to convince its reluctant saviours that it deserves their next tranche of cash.
Times, Sunday Times
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In his remarks, Mr. Wen pledged to double the amount of trade with Greece to $8 billion in five years and extend credit to Greek shipowners who buy Chinese-built vessels.
China Voices Support for EU Recovery Efforts
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Greece is failing through monetary union: Britain will leave if political union becomes unavoidable.
Times, Sunday Times
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The prophetess of Delphi, and the priestess of Dodona, many are the benefits which in their phrensies (moments of inspiration) they have bestowed upon Greece; but in their hours of self-possession, few or none.
Christianity and Greek Philosophy or, the relation between spontaneous and reflective thought in Greece and the positive teaching of Christ and His Apostles
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I'm going to Greece in the summer so I've got to be super slim.
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The Kalash are polytheists, with a pantheon of deities and demi-gods that has been compared to that of ancient Greece, though it is much closer to Indo-Iranian (Vedic and pre-Zoroastrian) traditions.
The Kalash Tribe Of Pakistan (PHOTOS)
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Although fava is grown across Greece, Santorini fava are slightly sweeter than those grown elsewhere and are widely considered to have superior flavor.
Recipes: Santorini Fava Pie with Tomatoes, Capers, and Eggs & Fava Pantremeni (Σαντορίνη Φάβα Πίτες με Ντομάτες, Κάπαρης και Αυγά & Φάβα Παντρεμένη)
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The only countries whose policy is not to extradite refused asylum seekers are Greece and Italy.
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The tresses of Helen, that goddess of Greece have hanked round your heart like a doll of desire
Sile Ni Ghrada (Sheila Nee Iyer)
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In ancient Greece this might go under the name of "aporia".
Philosophy Blog
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Ancient Greece was a fountain of wisdom and philosophy.
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Greece's top central banker called on the government to speed up efforts to close the budget gap amid growing concerns elsewhere in Europe that Athens can't pull itself out of its debt spiral.
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The only currency to retain confidence was the gold sovereign, which had been shipped into Greece in large quantities by the British authorities to finance resistance activities.
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Historians of the ancient Olympics have always questioned how hand-held weights called halteres depicted on many Greek vases and found at sporting sites all over Greece were used.
Leapin' Olympians
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These are decorated with the floral emblems of Australia and Greece, the wattle and the olive.
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Greece's ability to devalue its currency before it joined the euro allowed its leaders to postpone reform indefinitely.
Times, Sunday Times
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It had also booked another tanker, the Cypriot flagged Presnya to carry 28,000 tonnes of aviation fuel from Greece to southern Spain.
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A country is fundamentally a concept, and it is natural and built symbols like our Washington Monument, Japan's Mount Fuji, Saudi Arabia's Mecca, Greece's Parthenon, Mexico's Zocalo Square or Namibia's Sossusvlei desert that lend it a physical presence.
Jake Townsend: Metaphors Made Real: On the Power of National Symbols
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In the learned, Grecophile culture of the Medici pope's court, courtesans were regarded as latter-day reincarnations of hetairai, the women who entertained men at the symposium in ancient Greece.
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Dimitrios Ioannidis, 87, the feared security chief who led a countercoup against Greece's military leaders and provoked Turkey's invasion of Cyprus in 1974, has died.
Dimitrios Ioannidis, 87, dies; former Greece security chief led countercoup
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Hellas is an intense little contest where two players vie to control ten cities in ancient Greece.
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Turkey and Greece were buffer states against the former Soviet Union.
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British troops entered Greece in 1944, after the Resistance had liberated the country, only to rearm the fascist militias the Germans had created in order to turn them on the Resistance!
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See, this is like ancient Greece, and those ancient Greek Gods got a thing for human poontang.
Flixnjoystix.com!
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Greece is in Europe..but that is Geography..so is Egypt is in Africa…but both are considered Middle Eastern countries…..both are old civilizations linked to each others..and the whole area…
Think Progress » Hagel: White House Originally Wanted 2002 Iraq War Resolution to Cover Entire Middle East
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Greece's lenders say the country must abide by the terms of its rescue package in March or be cut off from future payments.
Times, Sunday Times
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After the restoration of democracy in 1974 he returned to Greece.
Times, Sunday Times
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The prospect of a sovereign default in Greece is disturbing enough.
Times, Sunday Times
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Yet the German and French governments, chivvied by the European Central Bank, do not insist that Greece service its debts at all costs as a favor to the banks.
Why We Aren't Bashing Banks
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Greece was one of the few European countries to gain territory from the Second World War when the formerly Italian Dodecanese became part of Greece in 1947.
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It's also got its own currency, so, unlike the travails of Greece, Portugal, Ireland, Italy or Spain, its woes don't require the endless fearful summitry of a disapproving euro zone, where progress comes in tiny increments if at all.
U.K. Debt Plan Can't Cover All Its Sins
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A number of the women had time to develop their minds in between flaunting their bodies, more like geisha girls, or the hetaerae of ancient Greece, than modern-day porn stars.
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In Public Library of Science (PloS) Medicine, an online journal, John Ioannidis, an epidemiologist at Ioannina School of Medicine, Greece, and his colleagues, suggest that a variety of economic conditions, such as oligopolies, artificial scarcities and the winner's curse, may have analogies in scientific publishing.
Food &Health Skeptic
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I must have told the boys stories out of my Goldsmith's Greece and Rome, or it would not have been known that I had read them, but I have no recollection now of doing so, while I distinctly remember rehearsing the allegories and fables of the 'Gesta Romanorum', a book which seems to have been in my hands about the same time or a little later.
Literature and Life (Complete)
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It is a punishing consequence of their defeat by Greece on the opening day, when their problems were first-night nerves and a lack of competitive-match practice.
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Babits was a classicist: the legacy of Greece and Rome meant more to him than what he felt was the barbarousness of the Old Testament.
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The 11 competitors from the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia tend to be tagged with the soulless acronym FYROM because their country's proper name is such a mouthful -- and Greece jealously reserves the name Macedonia for its north-central administrative region.
Happy Just To Be Here
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For the last eighteen hundred years Greece has fed the human intellect; Rome, taught by Greece, and improving upon her teacher, has been the source of law and government and social civilization; "Judea has given to the world a pure Theism and the idea of expiatory sacrifice; and what neither one nor all of these could furnish," the perfection of moral and spiritual truth, has been given by christianity.
The Historic Significance of the Southern Revolution: A Lecture Delivered by Invitation in Petersburg, Va., March 14th and April 29th, 1864, and in Richmond, Va., April 7th and April 21st, 1864
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The other chucklesome moment enlivening a dull match was Champion's description of Greece coach Otto Rehhagel's hair as "unfeasibly dark for a man his age.
World Cup 2010 coverage: We need to see more of Diego Maradona
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It would take time to establish, would penalise banks not exposed in Greece, would exempt non-eurozone banks lending to Greece, and would run into political opposition in national legislatures.
Merkel and Sarkozy thrash out last-minute compromise over Greece
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As speculative contagion spread across the continent and technocratic placemen were imposed on Italy and Greece, David Cameron and George Osborne clashed with the German chancellor over the mortal threat of a 0.01% EU-wide tax on financial transactions.
The City of London isn't a national interest – it's a class interest | Seumas Milne
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Pulling out a final sprint Todorovich and Popovic reduced a boat length deficit down to a canvas as they closed in on Greece.
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The guerrilla campaign for union with Greece had its share of shameful episodes on both sides.
Times, Sunday Times
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The Truman Doctrine effectively stopped communists from taking control of Greece and Turkey.
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According to Greece's Development Ministry, the IGB pipeline -- a 160 kilometer (99-mile) link between Komotini in Greece and Stara Zagora in Bulgaria -- will receive €45 million from EU funds.
Edison to Build Greece-Bulgaria Pipeline
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In his book of 'British Fishes,' Mr. Yarrell states that 'the anchovy is a common fish in the Mediterranean, from Greece to Gibraltar, and was well known to the Greeks and Romans, by whom the liquor prepared from it, called garum, was in great estimation.'
The Book of Household Management
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This is a specialized NGO, set up in 1983, with the main task to protect the loggerhead turtle in Greece.
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July 21, 2010 at 12:19 pm my “most wanted to see” destinations are: Bora-bora, Indonesia and Greece!
The world is in the palm of our hands | Free People Clothing Boutique Blog
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Turkey and Greece have long been feuding over the island of Cyprus.
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The second day the sun rose on the shores of many-isled Greece, and shed its rays over Etruria and Rome, and ere it set, temples and palaces were flooded with beauty.
Fra Bartolommeo
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The finished product, which they moved into in 1995, includes marble from Brazil, China, Greece and Italy as well as hand-carved moldings from six different workshops and doorknobs from Paris.
Mediterranean, Vegas-Style
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Faidros Kavallaris belongs to the ancient culture of Greece.
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He now faces returning to Greece in November for the appeal hearing and his haulage business is threatened with bankruptcy, with his lorry impounded by the Greek authorities.
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George the Third is in his mad dotage, Napoleon is ploughing through Europe and Lord Byron is whoring his way to Greece.
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It has Sweden and Greece in joint favourites position, at 7-1, followed by Doran at 8-1.
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Passengers from Greece, where peanut allergy is rather rare, might have been more concerned about the melon in the fruit salad.
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With an eye toward the 2006 Olympic Games in Turin, Italy, he wants to become a bobsledding brakeman - for Greece.
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In Greece, couples are offered a range of incentives to have more than one child, including tax relief and licences for taxis and newspaper kiosks.
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Dedications by sculptors and potters from Archaic Greece testify to the wealth of at least some of these artisans.
