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Eastern Highlands Province dominates PNG Provincial Games.
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18 NOVEMBER 2003 PORT MORESBY (Pacnews) --- Papua New Guinea's (PNG) Eastern Highlands made sporting history to finish on top of the table at the inaugural PNG Provincial Games, which ended on Saturday (15 Nov).
The hosts snatched the first spot with a haul of 55 medals including 27 gold, 18 silver and 11 bronze at the six-day event. Most of the medals were from individual events of boxing and athletics while a few came from team sports. The team was presented with a shield as the Games' inaugural winners.
Morobe, which many critics said had fielded elite ...
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Four Island Utopias: Being Plato's Atlantis; Euhermos of Messene's Panchaia; Iamboulos' Island of the Sun; Sir Francis Bacon's New Atlantis, With a Supplement on Utopian Prototypes, Development, and Variations.(Review)
Magazine article from: Utopian Studies
; Diskin Clay and Andrea Purvis. Four Island Utopias: Being Plato's Atlantis; Euhermos of Messene's Panchaia; lamboulos' Island of the Sun; Sir Francis Bacon's New Atlantis, With a Supplement on Utopian Prototypes, Developments...
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Grecian upbringing, Olympics mania, on display at Onassis Center
News Wire article from: AP Worldstream
; ...Olympia's youngest champion, 12-year-old Damsicus of Messene, was crowned with the traditional olive wreath and showered...lasted almost 1,200 years. Little is known about Damsicus of Messene, who won the "stadion" race of 200 meters at Olympia, although...
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Grecian Artifacts on Display in New York
News Wire article from: AP Online
; ...Olympia's youngest champion, 12-year-old Damsicus of Messene, was crowned with the traditional olive wreath and showered...lasted almost 1,200 years. Little is known about Damsicus of Messene, who won the "stadion" race of 200 meters at Olympia, although...
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Pylos regional archaeological project, Part VII: historical Messenia, geometric through late Roman.(Historical Background: The PRAP Study Area)
Magazine article from: Hesperia
; ...Pylos in the later third century, ca. 220 B.C. Despite Messene asking for Rome's intervention in the matter, Methoni and...the west coast, and several good ports, from the control of Messene. (89) In the second century A.D., Pausanias traveled...
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BOOKS RECEIVED.
Magazine article from: The Philosophical Review
; ...Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2000. Pp. vi, 268. Four Island Utopias: Being Plato's Atlantis, Euhemeros of Messene's Panchaia, Iamboulos' Island of the Sun, Sir Francis Bacon's New Atlantis. By Diskin Clay and Andrea Purvis. Newburyport...
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Mataxourgeion: The Athens Silkmil.(Review)
Magazine article from: Business History
; ...silkmill. It delineates the long path followed by the Durutti from the mountains of Epirus to Ancona, then to Sparta and Messene and finally to Athens. The story of this family, which started off as traders in the coarse woollen cloth known as Skouti...
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Pylos regional archaeological project, Part VII: historical Messenia, geometric through late Roman.
Magazine article from: Hesperia
; ...the Messenians become "visible" again, in an outburst of civic foundation and monumental display--most famously at Messene, northeast of the PRAP study area--and through the crafting and promulgation of local histories. (4) But even the freed...
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 "The Birmingham Post (England)")
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Culture: A hi-tech stroll through history; Terry Grimley discovers how 21st century technology is being used to recreate long-lost Greek and Roman theatres.(Features)
Newspaper article from: The Birmingham Post (England)
; ...walk through key selected theatres from history -some lost, some still existing. As well as the ancient Greek theatres of Messene and Dionysus, they include the Paris Opera, the Bayreuth Festspielhaus, and Sir Christopher Wren's Theatre Royal, Drury...
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 "Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)")
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AFRICA TOUR INCLUDES TENT CAMPING.(TRAVEL)
Newspaper article from: Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
; ...aboard the m.v. Orpheus, privately chartered for 150 passengers from Royal Olympic Cruises. Ports of call include Athens, Messene, Olympia, Delphi and the Greek islands of Kos, Santorini, Delos, and Mykonos. Tour prices range from $2,995 to $5...
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 "Huddersfield Daily Examiner (Huddersfield, England)")
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Hidden delights of a lost Greece.
Newspaper article from: Huddersfield Daily Examiner (Huddersfield, England)
; ...other major online retailer.. CAPTION(S): ABOVE: Allan's book; right, the author, and below: part of the city of Messene, built below Mount Ithome, a site claimed as the birthplace of Zeus, with its gymnasium dedicated to Hercules, Hermes and...
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