Mount McKinley (AGC 7) - Naval Cruise Book

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DURING OUR ONE-.IEEK VISIT IO A'rHI:Ns...APHIL 18-2L, NE FOUND THE GHEBK5 A VERY PLEASANT AND CULTIVATEJD RAcE...ATH1-ms IS INHABITED BY ALMOST A MILLION, FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND PEOPLE. ......... Q! L, I HADRIAN'S ARCH IS A LONUNENT OF THE SECOND CENTURY A. D., WHICH MARKED THE BOUNDARY BETNEEN OLD ATHENS AND THE NEN ATHENS OF THE EMPEROR HADRIAN'S BUILD- ING PHOGRAM..........

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silk if ALEXANDER THE GREAT EXTENDED THE GLORY OF GREECE DEEP FORMING A POJERFUL HELLENIC EMPIRE. ATHENS, HONEVER, THIS'EXPANSION, PASSING THROUGH ALTERNATING STAGES OF DECLINE AND FINALLY FALLING UNDER ROMAN DOEINATION IN CENTURY, B. C. A SORT OF RENAISSANCE OCCURRED IN THE INTO ASIA, SUFEERED FROM PEOSPEETTY AND THE SECOND SECOND CENTURY, A. D., AND LATER ATHENS FORNED A PART OF TEE BYZANTINE EMPIRE, NHICH CAME UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF THE ATHENIAN CULTURE. ATHENS FOLLONED THE FATE OF THE BYZANTINE EMPIRE BEING DONINATED BY THE FRANKS IN 120A TO 1270 A. D., AND TNO CENTURIES LATER BY THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE. WHEN GREECE THREW OFF THE YOKE OF THE OTTONAN EM- PIRE IN 1833 A. D., ATHENS NAS CHOSEN TO BE THE CAPITAL OF THE NEWLY ESTABLISHED GREEK KINGDOM. AFTER THE SECOND NORLD NAR, GREECE WAGED A BITTER STRUGGLE AGAINST DOMINATION BY THE COMNUNISTS. TO HELP THE ANTI-COMMUNISTS, PRESIDEN TRUMAN SET UP A POINT IV PROGRAM IN l9h8, AND AID NAS ONLY TO GREECE, BUT TURKEY AS WELL. RENDERED NOT T

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iz F 1 i i 1 5 1 THE PARTHENON WAS BUILT IN LA? B. C., AS A TEMPLE TO THE VIRGIN ATHENA. IT IS THE SYMBOL OF CLASSICAL BEAUTY. BUILT BY PHIDIAS, THE PARTHENON WAS LATER USED BY CHRISTIANS AND MOSLEMS. IT NAS NRECHED IN 1687 BY THE VENETIANS, JHILE IT NAS BEING USED AS A TURKISH PONDER MAGAZINE.