Albany (CA 123) - Naval Cruise Book

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The Olympeneum University of Athens Parliamentary Guard

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ATHENS i ■ • ' 4: -i - ' HS-CSA - ' 1 Famous Parthenon There were many excellent ruins of ancient Greek culture in evidence, such as the Acropolis, the Areopagus (on which hill St. Paul preached) and the excavated market places of Agora. Other well-known ruins to be seen were those of the Parthenon, Odeum, Erechteum, Propylaea and the Dioysioc Theatre. While riding from the Fleet Landing to Athens, we passed one of the ancient ruins. One of our shipmates remarked, It looks like they are tearing that building down. See what I mean — this fellow must haveduckedall of his history classes. There was not too much blood pressure raised over this old world port. The wallets were deflated in nothing flat. Achilles must have made double quick time from Cannes with the message that we all broke the bank at Monte Carlo I

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