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The Acropolis in Athens, Greece, came in second after the Angkor site in Cambodia on a list composed recently by CNN.
The list was composed following the announcement of the most expensive vacation of all time that was recently purchased by two people for 1.5 million dollars from luxury website VeryFirstTo.com.
CNN rounded up 20 of the network’s favorite sites. Continue reading
“[The Spartans’] unique constitution cannot be placed under any general head; cannot be called kingdom, oligarchy, or democracy, without misleading… it participated in all three.” — J.B.Bury (quote p.118).
We were fascinated to learn that Ancient Sparta employed a form of range voting as early as 700 BC. That was one of the ways (not all of them were good…) in which the Spartans were well ahead of their time.
The Spartan government setup had 4 branches. (The whole principle often attributed to Benjamin Franklin of “checks and balances” was clearly already well appreciated by the Spartans.) Continue reading
Αποσύρεται λίγο πριν κατατεθεί στη Βουλή το νομοσχέδιο του υπουργείου Δικαιοσύνης για την ρατσιστική βία.
Σύμφωνα με πληροφορίες από κυβερνητικές πηγές, έπειτα από παρέμβαση του υπουργού Επικρατείας, Δημήτρη Σταμάτη και του γενικού γραμματέα, Τάκη Μπαλτάκου στόχος είναι να γίνει περαιτέρω επεξεργασία στο νομοσχέδιο και βελτιώσεις λόγω των γενικότερων προβλημάτων που μπορεί να προκύψουν από την εφαρμογή του. Continue reading
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