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The history of Europe may be divided into two major periods. A period of wars and distensions, of societal or economic relations or differences, a history of destruction of limited duration according to unfolding events at any particular time, and…

Kyrenia (poem)
I Admired your looks and your dense hair
The sea mirrors your looks every day
The Mountain - your husband - is right to be jealous
Embracing you, he won’t let you go
For you’re the best of the daughters of…

80th Anniversary of the Birth of Archbishop Makarios III

Moths are classified as insects and belong to the order of Lepidoptera. Insects are the largest class in the Animal Kingdom and some one million of them have been described to date. They (the insects) represent at least three- quarters of all living…

Throughout the ages the spectacle of the circus has provided an ever changing and endearing entertainment to populations in all societies and remains a most popular family outing to this day. In the Roman Empire, circuses featured gladiators fighting…

The Church of the Virgin Mary of Podithou, whence this wall painting derives, is in the village of Galata and dates from 1502 A.D. The Church belonged to a monastery. When the Russian traveller Basil Basky visited the Church in 1735 the monastery was…

Since the Sydney Olympic games are very recent and everybody remembers them well, here are some data you may not know:

- Day 8 of the Sydney Olympic Games (Saturday 23rd September) smashed the daily attendance record for Sydney Olympic Park. A…

The copper ingot depicted on this stamp was a standard monetary unit before the invention of coinage. Excavated at Engomi and dated between 1400-1250 B.C. it is today in the Cyprus Museum,in Nicosia. Strabo, in his Geographica completed in Rome c.23…

Embroidery and needlework have been a universally known and appreciated for m of Folk Art since ancient times and many antique examples worked in cotton, linen and/ or silk can be found in museums around the world. In Cyprus both for ms of art are…

This is one of the two Christmas issues where the designer's presentation is modern and is not based on existing works of great religious worth or meaning.The set covers the holiday periods, which include Christmas, New Year and Epiphany Day.The 17…