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Atlantic Trumpet Triton (Charonia variegata)

Cyprosyllabic Inscription

Lions Attacking Bull (5th Century B.C.)

Cyprus Forest Industries-Sawmill

Cedar

Walking into any church or monastery in Cyprus, one will encounter icons both old and new. The word "Icon" comes from the Greek "Icona" meaning image. In the Greek Orthodox the scriptures in pictorial form. Cyprus abounds with icons and the…

According to legend, Aphrodite, one of the twelve Olympian Gods, Goddess of love, beauty and fertility was born of the sea-foam on the shores of Paphos. The stamp depicts the birth of Aphrodite by the Italian Renaissance painter Sandro Botticelli.…

Icon Stand of Timios Stavros Church

In the Montreal Games of 1976 the workers’ trade unions staged many and successive strikes thus compelling the Government, which feared the danger of the Games being cancelled, to advance large sums of money and benefits which combined with the…

In the Montreal Games of 1976 the workers’ trade unions staged many and successive strikes thus compelling the Government, which feared the danger of the Games being cancelled, to advance large sums of money and benefits which combined with the…