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Greek revival - Nov 6, 2008 Toronto Star,The New Acropolis Museum, opening in March 2009, is right next to the Acropolis metro station. For information. Take a walking tour, conducted in English, Scientists to measure quake effect on Acropolis - Oct 31, 2008 The Associated PressATHENS, Greece (AP) — For thousands of years the Acropolis has withstood earthquakes, weathered storms and endured temperature extremes, from scorching Athens puts on chic face for its traditional sights and sounds - Nov 1, 2008 Austin American-Statesman,By Shelley Emling ATHENS, Greece - Not so long ago, many travelers dismissed Athens, with its scruffy streets, traffic pandemonium, and lackadaisical Acropolis restoration works - Oct 30, 2008 ANA,Culture Minister Mihalis Liapis on Thursday inspected works for the restoration of the Athens Acropolis, after which he praised the effort underway. Greek scientists use lasers to clean Acropolis - Oct 23, 2008 Times of Malta,A restorer conducts an ultrasound on the ceiling of the porch of the Caryatids of the Erectheion temple on the Acropolis in Athens to see beneath a film of Italy returns piece of Parthenon Marbles to Greece - Sep 23, 2008 The Associated PressATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greece has finally taken possession of a chunk of the Elgin Marbles, and now holds renewed hopes of regaining the rest. WCCCI concert in Athens - Sep 24, 2008 ANA,A concert at the Herod Atticus Odeon, beneath the Acropolis, is scheduled for Wednesday evening as part of efforts to raise funds for children living in Acropolis museum opening delayed - Sep 16, 2008 ABC Online,The opening of a new, ultra-modern Acropolis museum located below the ancient Athens landmark has been pushed back until February or March next year, Pagans ask ancient gods to protect Athens' Acropolis - Aug 31, 2008 Khaleej Times,ATHENS - A group of pagans held a protest prayer on the Acropolis in Athens on Sunday, asking the ancient Goddess of Wisdom, Athena, to protect the Worshipers of Greek gods plan protest prayer at Acropolis - Aug 29, 2008 Sun-Sentinel.com,AP ATHENS, Greece - A small group of pagans pledged Thursday to hold a protest prayer among the ruined Acropolis temples, more than 1500 years after Jennifer Lopez tạo dáng ở…Hi Lạp - Sep 21, 2008 Dân TrÃ,Jennifer Lopez còn Ä‘i mua sắm ở Pháp nhÆ°ng chỉ 2 ngà y sau đó, cô đã có mặt tại Hi Lạp để chụp má»™t bá»™ ảnh thá»?i trang tại thà nh Acropolis, Athens. Quinn: Memories of Athens - Part One - Jul 29, 2008 TVNZ,By Keith Quinn In the last of the series of one reporter's memories of the Olympic Games, Keith Quinn looks back fondly at Athens in 2004. Acropolis to undergo restoration from 2009 - Jul 24, 2008 AFPATHENS (AFP) — The world-famous Parthenon of the Athens Acropolis will undergo restoration work from 2009 that will see its western facade obscured by ATHENS: Monumental attractions - Aug 2, 2008 Chandigarh Tribune,Athens, called the birthplace of democracy, is also the birthplace of many philosophers and writers, such as Socrates, Plato, Pericles and Sophocles. Queensgate Market: it’s another Acropolis says student ... and he ... - Jul 23, 2008 Huddersfield Examiner,Huddersfield’s Queensgate Market Hall stands comparison to the Parthenon in Athens says a Greek student of interior design ... who believes it could become 8 great things to do in Athens - Apr 11, 2008 Chicago Tribune,By Toni Salama | Tribune Reporter April 13, 2008 ATHENS—Few experiences in life are as moving as ascending the Acropolis of Athens and coming face-to-face Pace of Parthenon restoration sped up - Apr 10, 2008 The Age,The decades-long restoration effort on Athens' famed Acropolis is set to speed up with the removal of 17 carved stone squares from the ancient landmark for Greece aims to regain Elgin Marbles with new museum - Apr 4, 2008 Newsday,AP April 6, 2008 A long-delayed new museum in Athens where Greece hopes to reunite its ancient Acropolis masterpieces with Britain's Elgin Marbles will open Tight security surrounds Beijing torch relay in Greece - Mar 29, 2008 Guardian,By Karolos Grohmann ATHENS, March 29 (Reuters) - Tight security surrounded the last day of the Greek leg of the Beijing Games torch relay on Saturday with Olympics Photo Wire - Mar 29, 2008 ESPNMembers of a pro-Tibet group hold candles as they protest at the foot of the Acropolis in Athens on Saturday, March 29, 2008. Small protests were held amid Scuffle Outside Olympic Flame Stadium - Mar 30, 2008 ABC NewsAP Police scuffled with pro-Tibet demonstrators gathered outside a stadium in Athens where Greek officials planned to hand over the Olympic flame to MILOS BICANSKI / Getty Images - Mar 30, 2008 Philadelphia Inquirer,Pro-Tibetan activists protest near the Acropolis in Athens as the Olympic flame arrives at the ancient site. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - Prime Minister Yousaf Tight Greek security for Olympic torch - Mar 28, 2008 PRESS TV,More than 2000 police will be guarding the Beijing Olympic torch relay in Athens over the weekend in fear of disruptions by protestors. Olympic torch reaches Acropolis - Mar 29, 2008 Times of India,ATHENS: The Beijing Olympics torch relay reached the ancient Acropolis on Sunday, amid heavy police security and brief demonstrations by small groups of Greece is the word for RL Turner students - Apr 10, 2008 Dallas Morning News,RL Turner students journeyed to Greece over spring break. Of course, a visit to the Acropolis in Athens was on the agenda. Comments limited to 30 words or Olympic flame reaches Athens Acropolis - Mar 29, 2008 Radio New Zealand,The Beijing Olympic flame has reached the Athens Acropolis under unprecedented security to prevent pro-Tibet activists disrupting the torch relay. Olympic Torch Reaches Acropolis - Mar 29, 2008 Twin Falls Times-News,By NICHOLAS PAPHITIS ATHENS, Greece - Torchbearers carried the Olympic flame through the crowded streets of Athens to the Acropolis Saturday amid heavy Greek Parthenon sculptures are threatened by pollution - Apr 13, 2008 China Post,By DIDIER KUNZ, AFP ATHENS -- A senior Greek archaeologist warned this week that the last original sculptures still adorning the Parthenon, Athens' iconic Athenians line streets for Beijing Olympic flame handover - Mar 30, 2008 Earthtimes,Athens - Athenians began lining the streets of the Greek capital on Sunday to witness the Olympic torch leave the ancient Acropolis and make its way to Acropolis and rooftops in Athens covered in snow - Feb 16, 2008 Trend News Agency,...( dpa )- Athenians woke Sunday to a rare sight in the Greek capital as a thick layer of snow covered the Acropolis and rooftops across the city. Temperatures to drop sharply as severe storm hits Israel - Feb 17, 2008 Ha'aretz,By Ofri Ilani, Haaretz Correspondent Temperatures were expected to drop sharply on Monday, as strong winds and thunderstorms hit the country and snow draped Area Briefs, Feb. 01 , 2008 - Feb 1, 2008 Ada Evening News,ADA — East Central University is sponsoring a study trip for two weeks in May to experience Italy and Greece. The group will first tour the Vatican, Greek culture minister supports European agenda - Nov 16, 2007 Athens News Agency,Greek Culture Minister Mihalis Liapis on Friday said that Athens was in favour of creating a common European agenda for culture during his participation in OGAE Greece presents MPLE - Nov 15, 2007 esctoday.com,The fifth edition of 5th MPLE, Ogae Greece's annual festival, was held last Saturday at the 2006 Eurocafe venue under the Acropolis in Athens. BMW visitor centre arouses curiosity of thousands - 22 Oct 2007 Expatica Germany,Munich (AFP) - A chic glass building, all curvy lines, the new BMW exhibition centre opened its doors over the weekend to thousands curious to take in the ANTIQUITIES IN MOTION Athens Makes Room (and Another Request) for ... - Oct 16, 2007 Spiegel Online,Huge cranes began moving antiquities off Athens' Acropolis down to a new museum built to hold them at the base of the citadel. In a not-so-subtle challenge Greece hoists Parthenon sculptures to new home - Oct 14, 2007 Reuters Canada,By Renee Maltezou ATHENS (Reuters) - Greece on Sunday began moving the ancient sculptures from the temples of the Athens Acropolis to a new museum, Greece to relocate Acropolis statues - Oct 12, 2007 France24,Greek authorities held a dress rehearsal for the relocation of hundreds of statues and friezes from the Acropolis to a sprawling new museum. AP Interview: Modern architecture meets antiquity in new Acropolis ... - Oct 9, 2007 PR-Inside.com (Pressemitteilung),© AP AP Interview: Modern architecture meets antiquity in new Acropolis museum By ELENA BECATOROS - AP Writer © AP ATHENS, Greece (AP) - One of Greece's Campaigner urges Greece to fight for Marbles for new Acropolis museum - Oct 5, 2007 PR-Inside.com (Pressemitteilung),© AP ATHENS, Greece (AP) - Greece should use the opening of its new Acropolis museum to ratchet up the pressure on Britain for the permanent return of the The vivid hues of Greece - Oct 5, 2007 The Newark Advocate,By BRIAN MILLER NEWARK -- Light blue sky, deep blue water and rugged landscapes was what most impressed three Licking County artists who painted outdoor Plan Your Cheap Holiday To Europe - Sep 29, 2007 PR-GB.com (press release),When you are planning a cheap holiday destination, you might want to see the beautiful attractions in Italy, Greece, Germany, France or Croatia. Lee Troop to come good on his Greek pact - Sep 27, 2007 Geelong Advertiser,WHEN Lee Troop jogged to the top of the Acropolis after the 2004 Athens Olympics, the Geelong runner made a pact with his wife Freyja and close friend Steve World at her feat - Sep 25, 2007 Pune Newsline,THE imposing amphitheatre couldn’t have provided a better ambience for the artistically inclined to acquire a taste for Kathak. The occasion was the World Athens Art Deco gem could be torn down for view of the - Aug 1, 2007 USA TodayBy Elena Becatoros, AP Writer ATHENS — A shimmering reflection of the Parthenon greets passersby glancing up at the vast wall of windows atop Greece's new Art Deco gem in Athens faces demolition - Aug 2, 2007 Pioneer Times-Journal,By ELENA BECATOROS, AP Writer 11 minutes ago ATHENS, Greece - A reflection of the Parthenon shimmers from the windows of Greece‘s new Acropolis Museum in a  Hagia Sofia Museum Listed Among Seven Wonders of World Jan 29, 2006 Among the 21 other structures are Acropolis – Athens, Eiffel Tower – Paris, Statue of Liberty - New York, The Great Wall of China, Collezium – Rome, Taj ... Zaman Online, Voting on Petra as one of the new7 wonders of the world Jan 16, 2006 Shortlist for new Seven Wonders of the World includes: Acropolis, Athens, Alhambra, Granada, Spain, Angkor, Cambodia, Chichen Itza, Yucatan, Mexico, Christ ... Jordan News Agency (Petra), Stonehenge on new wonders shortlist Jan 2, 2006 The 21 finalists are: The Acropolis, Athens; Alhambra, Spain; Angkor, Cambodia; Chichen Itza, Mexico; Christ Redeemer, Rio de Janeiro; Colosseum, Italy; Easter ... Scotsman, No ego boost for us, or the SwissWhen wonders cease Jan 7, 2006 The finalists are as follows: the Acropolis (Athens), Alhambra (Granada, Spain), Angkor (Cambodia), Chichen Itza (Yucatan, Mexico), Christ Redeemer (Rio de ... Toronto Star, New 7 Wonders of the World Campaign Announces the 21 Finalist ... Jan 3, 2006 The official New7Wonders finalist candidates are: 01 Acropolis, Athens, Greece 02 Alhambra, Granada, Spain 03 Angkor, Cambodia 04 Chichen Itza, Yucatan, Mexico ... PR Newswire (press release), New 7 Wonders of the World Campaign Announces the 21 Finalist ... Jan 3, 2006 The official New 7 Wonders finalist candidates are: 01 Acropolis, Athens, Greece 02 Alhambra, Granada, Spain 03 Angkor, Cambodia 04 Chichen Itza, Yucatan ... 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