craton
craton (shield) (adj.
cratonic) Area of the Earth's
crust, invariably part of a continent, which is no longer affected by orogenic activity. This stability has existed for approximately 1000Ma. A classic example is the Canadian Shield.
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A PILGRIM ENTERS THE MIDDLE AGES IN A JOURNEY TO MOUNT ATHOS
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 10/25/1987; ; 700+ words
; ...subject to miracles." Notice in a Mount Athos administration building. A gong-like...bound for Karyes, tiny capital of Mount Athos: the Holy Mountain, the world's only...looked outlandish elsewhere, but on Mount Athos -- an egalitarian theocratic republic...
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 "Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO)")
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HOPES SOAR ON MOUNT ATHOS HOLY MOUNTAIN FACE LIFT BREATHES FRESH AIR INTO MONASTIC GREEK ENCLAVE.(News/National/International)
Newspaper article from: Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO); 7/26/1998; 700+ words
; ...Thanassis Cambanis Associated Press MOUNT ATHOS, Greece -- The monks claim their mountain...all-male monastic community of Mount Athos, little has changed. Women and even most...Monastery. ``Some people wanted to see Mount Athos fall,'' he added. That was literally...
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Mt. Athos, Greece: Of Monks and Men
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 8/6/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...Visitors to the Holy Community of Mount Athos, on a hilly, heavily forested peninsula...the mountain for a thousand years. Mount Athos is an Eastern Orthodox "monastic republic...architecture. Legally speaking, Mount Athos is an autonomous region in Greece with...
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i2i and Athos launch Italy's first business to business e-commerce portal and exchange.
M2 Presswire; 3/30/2000; 700+ words
; ...PRESSWIRE-30 March 2000-i2i: i2i and Athos launch Italy's first business to business...Italy -- Industry to Industry (i2i) and Athos today announced the launch of i2iexchangeitaly...platform and network of service partners with Athos' community management and e-commerce...
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Fire safety design in Mount Athos, Greece
Magazine article from: NFPA Journal; 11/1/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...of its monastic com- A munities, Mount Athos is 6,670-foot (2,033-meter...it wasn't until 883 A.D. that Mount Athos received its first imperial privilege from...and hermits. By the 13th century, Mount Athos was home to 300 monasteries and other buildings...
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Monks say they will wage spiritual war to prevent eviction from Mount Athos
News Wire article from: AP Worldstream; 1/16/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...than 100 reclusive monks living on Mount Athos on Thursday said they would wage a spiritual...schismatic. That decision allowed Mount Athos' Greek government administrator to order...ever known eviction of monks from Mount Athos since the community was founded on a northern...
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Treasures of Mount Athos
Transcript from: Weekend Saturday (NPR); 6/21/1997; ; 700+ words
; ...wanted to bring the priceless of Mount Athos to the public. She never got a chance...treasures. Women have been barred from Mount Athos for the past 900 years. Now the ancient...Katsarellias has lived and studied on Mount Athos. He' s a Byzantinist and he's the deputy...
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Standoff on Mount Athos; Greek Monks Defy Patriarch in a Battle for the Soul of Orthodoxy
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 2/15/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...or from Esphigmenou Monastery on Mount Athos, one of 20 religious communities on a...Aristos Kasmiroglou, governor of Mount Athos, denied that those who leave the premises...denomination. The Esphigmenou monks of Mount Athos have rejected both options, so their leadership...
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 "The Mirror (London, England)")
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Travel: Old habits die hard; RYAN PARRY GETS A RARE GLIMPSE INTO THE SECRET WORLD OF THE MONKS OF MOUNT ATHOS.(Features)
Newspaper article from: The Mirror (London, England); 6/14/2003; 700+ words
; ...the host. This is my welcome to Mount Athos, home to a colony of 1,700 Orthodox...spartan existence on a Greek paradise. On Athos, the easternmost of three peninsulas stretching...spirit does little to quench the thirst. Athos - or Agion Oros to the locals - is physically...
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THE PLACE THAT CHANGED ME: MATTHEW SPENCER Nothing would ever seem quite the same after meeting the monks of Mount Athos in Greece
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 8/20/2000; ; 671 words
; ...Grand Lavra, the oldest monastery on Mount Athos in Greece. I rushed to the library where...monastery, although it is an issue that Athos will have to deal with soon. My favourite...who thought that the spiritual succour of Athos should be available to women too and so...
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Athos
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Athos , Aktí , or Akte , easternmost...theocratic community of the monks of Mount Athos, also called Hagion Oros or Ayion Oros...rises to c.6,670 ft (2,030 m). Mount Athos is a community of about 20 monasteries of...
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Mount Athos
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Cultures
Mount Athos ETHNONYMS: Athonite Monks, Hagiorites...etc. Orientation Identification. Mount Athos is an autonomous republic of Eastern Orthodox...to the mountain peak. Demography. Mount Athos is occupied predominantly by Greeks, reflecting...
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Athos, Mount
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church
Athos, Mount. The peninsula off the coast of Greece which terminates in Mount Athos has long been the property of the monasteries of the E. Orthodox Church . The first monastic settlement was founded by St Athanasius the Athonite in 961. There...
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Reed, Oliver
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers
...1974 The Three Musketeers (Lester) (as Athos) 1975 The Four Musketeers (Lester) (as Athos); Tommy (Russell)(as Frank Hobbs...The Return of the Musketeers (Lester) (as Athos); A Ghost in Monte Carlo (Hough —...
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Croats
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Cultures
...Krakow, Poland, and in northeast Bohemia). It was used for the first time as a personal name (Hor ó athos, Hor ú athos) in the second to third centuries in Tanais on the river Don and on some historic monuments (Trpimir, dux...
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