Ancient Greece was a land of innovative art, philosophy, mathematics, and mythology. As in many ancient populations, the Sun was honored as a god. Helios, which in Greek means “Sun,” was their Sun god.

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   Antoine Laurent Lavoisier is considered one of the founders of modern chemistry, but he was also an administrator, and an important financier during the French Revolution. Those were bad times to be an aristocrat, and especially a much hated tax collector. It did not help to be the most famous scientist of the day, as he was guillotined anyway during the Terror of the French Revolution, in 1794.

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   Unfortunately, the historical city of Palmyra was destroyed in 2013 by the senseless fanatical terrorists of ISIS. The reason, according to them, was that it did not conform to their strict interpretation of Islam, like anything predating the Islamic era.

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1. Campiglia Marittima, Italy

   Laura Pesce

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