Live and Learn on a 5-Star World Cruise

Due to the increasing interest in worldwide journeys, many cruise lines are including global travel to their itineraries. The increased interest in traveling across the world’s oceans, seas and rivers means that the current figure of 25 million guests per year will climb in the near future. The myriad options for todayâ€â

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"Primitive" Greek Art: Large Statuary

Archaic Greeks were well known for creating the first freestanding statuary; up until then, most carvings were constructed out of walls and pillars as reliefs. Kouros figures, statues of young, attractive male or female (kore) Greeks, made up the majority of the statues. The kouroi were considered by the Greeks to represent beauty and were sculpted

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Find Peace with Garden Fountains

Simply having water in your garden can have a significant effect on your well-being. The sounds of a fountain are great to drown out the noise in your neighborhood or in the city where you live. This is a place where you can relax and experience nature. Considered a great rehabilitation element, many water therapies use big bodies of water hop over

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Early Water Supply Solutions in Rome

With the development of the 1st raised aqueduct in Rome, the Aqua Anio Vetus in 273 BC, folks who lived on the city’s hillsides no longer had to rely strictly on naturally-occurring spring water for their needs. When aqueducts or springs weren’t accessible, people dwelling at raised elevations turned to water taken

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Outdoor Fountains And Public Policy

The very first American city to implement a tax on high calorie drinks was Berkley, California in February 2014. The purpose is to get men and women drinking more water and other natural drinks by raising the price tag of soda and other sugar-sweetened drinks. Efforts were made to find out the state of neighborhood drinking water fountains in both

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