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Athos after the fall of Byzantium

During the Ottoman era, Athos remained under the patronage (though not always unselfish) of the Turkish sultans, which allowed the Holy Mountain to retain at least some of its former…

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Athos History

Ancient Period In antiquity, the mountain, which, according to the ancients (Steph. Byz. Ethnica. P. 36), bore the name of the mythical Thracian giant Athos (αθως, αθων - of pre-Greek…

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Brigitte Bardot, Film Icon and Activist, Dies at 91

Brigitte Bardot—the French screen legend whose early stardom helped define a new era of European cinema, and whose later life became inseparable from animal-rights campaigning—has died aged 91. She passed…

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Bigger datasets aren’t always better

[ad_1] MIT researchers developed a way to identify the smallest dataset that guarantees optimal solutions to complex problems. Data analysis – artistic impression. Image credit: Alius Noreika / AI Determining…

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