Nature

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***Unfortunately, due to bad weather conditions, we have cancelled the walk to Diakofti. We will inform you shortly about the new date. Thank you for your understanding, The Kythera Hiking Team*** On Sunday 9th of Decemb...

The Bakken Museum‎ 3537 Zenith Avenue South Minneapolis, Minnesota, 55416 UNITED STATES OF AMERICa (612) 926-3878 thebakken.org This is unique Museum, with a specific theme, which captures the imagination of people of al...

Student takes award for revealing submerged city's secrets. Sydney Morning Herald February 10, 2012 page 3 Deborah Smith The city of Pavlopetri, underwater off the coast of southern Laconia in Greece, is about 5,000 year...

Photograph - Shot in the dark: two pistols, one encrusted with fragments of wine bottles, were among recovered items. In 1802, one of the ships charted by Lord Elgin to transport the Parthenon Marbles to England sank off...

Photograph: Scraping the bottom divers worked collecting artifacts which they hope will shed more light on the ship and its voyage. In 1802, one of the ships charted by Lord Elgin to transport the Parthenon Marbles to En...

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On the 2nd of August 2009 on a beautiful winters day. a Liturgy and artoclasia was held at Central Mangrove-near Gosford NSW- by Reverend Giannis Varvaris. A litany of the Icon around the church in this magificent positi...

dionisis christofilogiannis 1-12 sept 2009 Zeidoros Centre for the Arts & Education 80100 Kapsali, Kythera / tel.: +30 2736038212 arts@zeidoros.gr

The late Alan Davidson (who sadly died at the end of 2003) had a distinguished career as a writer and publisher of books on food and cookery. His greatest achievement was 'The Oxford Companion to Food' (1999), but this w...

Author:Tzeli Hadjidimitriou When Published:2008 Publisher:Road Editions Available: At any good greek bookstores Description: 350 page travel guide to Kythera, that takes you off the-beaten track. With magnificent photos...

Scutigera is a centipede with a compact body fringed with fine, long limbs that resemble eyelashes. This particular example is missing several legs, poor thing. Photograph by Peter B Tzannes, 2004

This shy millipede has a dark, glossy body that stretches and curls along the wall to form amusing shapes, transforming itself from a straight line into a question mark, a half-circle, or an ess-curve, then curling up in...

The vromopapadia is a harmless millipede whose names translates as 'stinking priest's wife.' That’s because, when prodded, the vromopapadia emits an oily, sickly, lingering stench. In dry weather, the vromopapadia hides...

Even in death, when its body segments turn into a dry little heap of tiny white hoops, the vromopapadia can put out a repulsive smell. If you find it necessary to remove a vromopapadia, dead or alive, do so gingerly and...

The truly terrifying Scolopendra, who slithers around with a sinister, rippling movement on forty legs that all end in needle-sharp spikes. Photograph by Peter B Tzannes, 2004

This small Scolopendra has blue-green legs. Perhaps this coloration is typical of immatures, or maybe this creature belongs to a subspecies of the larger, yellow-legged variety. Photograph by Peter B Tzannes, 2004

Like all centipedes, the Scolopendra has a painful, poisonous bite. Just look at those jaws! Photograph by Peter B Tzannes, 2004

The Soil Centipede is a snakelike, red-yellow, eyeless creature that wiggles violently. And he is fast! Photograph by Peter B Tzannes, 2003

In July, the artichoke blossoms open, attracting swarms of rose beetles. The shining emerald beetles against the pale purple flowers has got to be one of Nature's most wonderful color combinations.