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On Greece's Mount Athos, a cliffside monastery transcends country-based branches of Orthodoxy
MOUNT ATHOS, Greece (AP) — The medieval monastery clings almost impossibly to sheer cliffs high above the shimmering ...
AP PHOTOS: Orthodox monks carry on a tradition of monastic life at a cliffside Greek monastery
The monastery is one of 20 in the autonomous all-male monastic community of Mount Athos, known in Greek as Agion Oros, or ...
Map: 6.0-Magnitude Earthquake Strikes the Mediterranean Sea Near Crete
A strong, 6.1-magnitude earthquake struck in the Mediterranean Sea on Wednesday, according to the United States Geological ...
12 Distant Places in the Solar System (And What They’re Named After)
As more of the solar system has been explored and imaged, all kinds of geographical features have been mapped on many of our ...
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Istanbul and the Marmara Sea
There are San Andreas faults in many places. They happen where two rigid continental masses slide past each other at fairly rapid pace. The San Andreas fault separates (‘connect’ would be the ...