The ancient Roman alternative to daylight saving time; An hour was not a consistent unit of time. In the summer it could be as long as 75 minutes and in the winter it sometimes lasted just 45 minutes.
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Medieval Europeans were fanatical about a strange fruit with a vulgar name that could only be eaten rotten. Then it was forgotten altogether. Why did they love it so much? And why did it disappear?
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2SAXY - Mykonos (Live saxophone improv session while walking around, 2025)
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Cyprus’ lyrical duelists spit fierce rhymes as they battle it out to the licks of a fiddle
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2SAXY - Santorini (Live saxophone improv session while walking around, 2025)
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Title of work deciphered in sealed Herculaneum scroll via digital unwrapping
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Why does Athens look so quirky?
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Stoicism’s appeal to the rich and powerful
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FK Bodø/Glimt beat Olympiacos FC over two legs in the last sixteen of the 2024-25 UEFA Europa League – set to face SS Lazio in the quarter-finals
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State of emergency declared on Santorini after earthquakes shake island
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Carl Bloch's lost masterpiece finds fame again in Athens – work that made its Danish creator a superstar then mysteriously disappeared is mesmerising art lovers once more
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Coinage and the tyranny of fantasy ‘gold’
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Otto Drakenberg is challenging Alisher Usmanov for the leadership of the International Fencing Federation – Usmanov is the heavy favorite despite international sanctions
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Greek poet who inspired EM Forster, David Hockney and Jackie Onassis emerges from the shadows
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Sweden is set to become the second EU country to ban bottom fishing in marine protected areas
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The oldest art in Greece is not what you think
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Alexander the Great's untold story: Excavations in northern Greece are revealing the world that shaped the future king
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The ancient Greeks who converted to Buddhism
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Plato's burial place finally revealed after AI deciphers ancient scroll carbonized in Mount Vesuvius eruption
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‘It’s plain elitist’: anger at Greek plan for €5,000 private tours of Acropolis
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Casper Ruud beats Novak Djokovic at the Monte Carlo Masters to set up Stefanos Tsitsipas final
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‘Love wins’ say Greek lesbian couple as they wed at last
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The oldest unsolved problem in math. Do odd perfect numbers exist?
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Join me on the path to Twilightenment
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Greece legalizes same sex marriage
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Greek ‘green’ islands: Electricity bills plunge from €2,000 to €40 per year
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Persephone is in the underworld during the summer, not the winter
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Migrant hunters in Greece show off captured 'trophies' after wildfire season
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Greece gripped by wildfires, national park threatened along with people and towns
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Tenerife wildfire 'started deliberately' as blazes in Greece force evacuations
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True size of a Spartan army - The real source of its strength
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Regarding the eviction of the self-organized refugee camp in Lavrio, Greece. How Turkey's war on Kurds and the European Union’s War on migrants intersect
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Everyone knew the migrant ship was doomed. No one helped.
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The campaign in the desert of North Africa in 1940-1943 mapped
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Feeding a Greek Hoplite - Ancient rations
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How this Florida town became the sea sponge capital of the world | Big Business
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How ancient soldiers used sound to frighten and confuse their enemies
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Old jokes
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Warships of the Carthaginian Navy | Units of History
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Copenhagen left looking sheepish after feta cheese judgment – Denmark loses Greek cheese fight at top EU court
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Holger Rune upsets Stefanos Tsitsipas in four sets to reach French Open quarter-finals – next faces the number eight seed, Norwegian Casper Ruud
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1000mods - Vidage (2011)
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The incredible spiced wine of ancient Rome
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Belarus scrambled fighter and flagged false bomb alert to force a Ryanair plane to land then detained an opposition-minded journalist who was on board, drawing criticism from across Europe
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How was the Colossus of Rhodes built? From siege tower to ancient wonder.
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Fireside Friday: Crisis in the democracies of antiquity
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The Sacred Band of Thebes | Units of History
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Cook a classical feast: Nine recipes from ancient Greece and Rome
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Greek demonstrators hurl firebombs towards US embassy in Athens
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Australia joins ‘first movers’ group of nations that have kept coronavirus under control
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