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GREECE: FIRES DESTROY VILLAGES, FORESTS, SWATHS OF CROPLAND.
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August 30, 2007
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By Apostolis Fotiadis
ATHENS, Greece, Aug. 30, 2007 (IPS/GIN) -- An unstoppable inferno is ravaging Greece: Fires are still burning out of control, even as the country's government prepares to tally the enormous costs of the weeklong disaster.
The area affected by the disaster runs from the prefecture of Evia to the outskirts of Athens, and throughout southwestern and central Peloponnesus, the southern peninsula of continental Greece.
According to the European Forest Fire Information System, 184,000 hectares of forest and agricultural fields were ...
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Jacob van Ruisdael: A Complete Catalogue of His Paintings, Drawings and Etchings.(Book Review)
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great leaps in landscape; Jacob van Ruisdael, the 17th-century Dutchman, influenced painters for centuries after his death - and still provokes scholars and critics.
Newspaper article from: The Evening Standard (London, England)
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; ...Here, you find yourself admiring Jacob van Ruisdael's intricate effects, but it...paintings of bleaching works. Mostly Ruisdael had an advanced taste for what...probably 50ft high. All the same, Ruisdael was a splendid observer of nature...
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Jacob van Ruisdael: A Complete Catalogue of his Paintings, Drawings, and Etchings
Magazine article from: Northeastern Naturalist
; Jacob van Ruisdael: A Complete Catalogue of his Paintings...0300089724. This catalogue raisonn of Ruisdael's works is a visual delight for all who enjoy fine paintings. Ruisdael is widely regarded as the most creative...
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Jacob van Ruisdael: Master of Landscape
Magazine article from: Northeastern Naturalist
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DEPARTMENT OF STATE Culturally Significant Objects Imported for Exhibition Determinations: "Jacob van Ruisdael: Master of Landscape".
News Wire article from: FedNet Government News
; ...257 of April 15, 2003 [68 FR 19875], I hereby determine that the objects to be included in the exhibition "Jacob van Ruisdael: Master of Landscape," imported from abroad for temporary exhibition within the United States, are of cultural...
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Magazine article from: Contemporary Review
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Dutch Mauritshuis museum spends euro10 million to acquire a Rubens, Van Ruisdael
News Wire article from: AP Worldstream
; ...night scene by Peter Paul Rubens and a landscape by Jacob van Ruisdael, for a total of euro10 million (US$12.4 million...from New York art dealer Otto Naumann, LTD, and Jacob van Ruisdael's "Bentheim Castle" at a Sotheby's auction...
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