Posts in The Copybook tagged ‘Greece’
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A tenth-century Greek monk is joined by a total stranger for Mattins.
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A marble statue in Venice bears witness to Europe’s long history of brave defeats and fruitless victories.
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The British liberated the Ionian islands from Napoleon, then gave them fifty happy years and the game of cricket.
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A Turkish official was itching to know the secret behind a Russian slave girl’s personal charm.
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A survivor of the infamous massacre of Chios in 1821 goes to Marseilles, but discovers he has not entirely left the Turks behind.
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In 1910, Constantine Zervakos, a young monk from the Greek island of Paros, found himself charged with espionage.