First week of school down!
We started school on Monday, September 1st. Apart from our regular math & language arts work, we jumped right back into our history book! Last week we read about life in early Crete. This is the beginning of our Greece unit, which means Jayden is super excited. We read about their "sport" (bull jump ...
France shocks Spain, giving Team USA clearer path to gold
Your browser does not support iframes. VIDEO: FIBA: Day 2, Quarterfinals Wrap MADRID – The dream of a Spain-USA final at the 2014 FIBA Basketball World Cup is dead. France ended it Wednesday with a stunning, 65-52 defeat of the Spain in the quarterfinals, playing a near perfect game to keep the host ...
Round-Up: Ancient discoveries, wilderness art and Koons strikes again
Art Spiegelman comments on Israel, archaeologists unearth a rare tomb in Greece and Jeff Koons is still making everyone crazy. There are all kinds of terrific essays floating around out there on everything from race, the media and wilderness. Saddle up and ride, it's the Round-Up:
I’m on the road again
I first got the travel bug on my 10th birthday when my best friends and I went to see Cliff Richard in Summer Holiday. I was smitten and not just with Cliff. To buy a big bus and you and all of your friends head off to Greece! Or anywhere for that matter. My girlfriend’s playhouse became a bus and t ...
A Greek Spread And Lots Of Fun Near The End Of Our Stay…
(photograph © Kiwidutch) We are back again, joining our in-laws for dinner at Spiro’s restaurant in Platania on the Pelion peninsular in Greece. The usual medley of Greek favourites are there and it’s relaxing sitting in the balmy warmth that has a surreal feeling because you can’t imagine that this ...
Sports elements i need a dollar
sports elements i need a dollarShe says she misses that freedom. ??Going to Target for me is like a dream, you know? she told Robin Roberts in a recent Good Morning America interview. That one time I went, you noticed it created a stir. Prosperity Candles arent only relaxing; they are also designed ...
France stun Spain as Serbia rout Brazil at basketball World Cup
A resurgent Serbia, who squeezed through the preliminary group stage, produced a second successive upset in the knockout rounds and brushed aside the Brazilians after they eliminated Greece in the round of 16. Spanish players during the loss against France.
SPI To Acquire 26 MW Of PV Projects In Greece
SPI Solar has entered into an agreement to acquire Sinsin Renewable Investment Ltd. (SRIL), which is registered in Malta. As a result of the acquisition, SPI will take over 26.57 MW of solar photovoltaic projects in Greece. Under the terms of the agreement ...
Petra and Greece feature in list of fascinating cities of destruction
THE world tends to celebrate the ingenuity and strength of great civilisations that have flourished by successfully subduing nature. But every bit as fascinating are the stories of once-great civilisations forced to submit to nature’s capricious power.
Atheist to lead invocation in New York state town of Greece
The New York town that was allowed by U.S. Supreme Court to open public meetings with prayer will have an atheist deliver the invocation for the first time. On Tuesday, Dan Courtney will do an invocation, which some have considered to be a call for help ...
