Beverly Hills High School - Watchtower Yearbook (Beverly Hills, CA)

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The basis OT The Three maior religions of The wesTern world is cenTered in The counTries of The Near Near EasT. Beginning wiTh The Jewish TradiTions and laTer The hisTory of ChrisTianiTy, Israel has played an imporTanT parT in The shaping of wesTern life. Jeff SelTzer and his Tamily Toured EgypT, Greece, Israel, and Jordan, concenTraTing on The ancienT civilizaTions which formed The basis of wesTern his- Tory. 5 I n E Mural in Tomb aT Karnak, Egypt GreaT Temple aT Karnak, EgypT The ancienT EgypTians leTT us greaT archiTecTural re- mains. Jeff SelTzer Took The picTure of a mural carved and painTed on The wall of The Tomb of a Pharaoh. Near Luxor he phoTographed The handsome ruins oT ancienT Temple pillars of Karnak, and in IsTanbul he Tound The lovely mosque silhoueTTed againsT The sky. Blue Mosque of SulTan Ahmed, lsTanl::ul

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Mediterranean For cenTuries, educaTion was based mainly on sTudies of The classical culTures. Even with . The modern emphasis on science and progressive educafion, The sTudy of The Greek and Roman culTures is an essenTial parT of Today's curriculum, Canal aT Venice, lTaly AlmosT all Beverly Travelers spenT Time in lTaly, ln Venice a gondola ride along The canals conTrasTed wiTh such hisToric sighTs as loeauTiTul ST. Mark's CaThedral which sTands as a monumenT To The mixing of Islamic and ChrisTian culTures. In Rome, Melody Cornell, Sue Davidson, and Connie Kamahele found Themselves enTranced wiTh The archiTecTural beauTy and engineering oT The Forum, a sTurdy reminder of The Roman Empire's legacy To civilizaTion. Those Travelers To The Near EasT enioyed Greece, boTh modern and ancienT. Junior Jon Davis lived There wiTh his Tamily for almosT a year. In AThens, The caryaTids, supporTs for The Temple of AThena, sTand norTh of The ParThenon on The Acropolis, which, illumin- aTed aT nighT, is a breaThTaking reminder of The Age of Pericles. Porch of The Caryafids, Acropolis, Athens ln fronf of The Forum of The Caesars Rome CaThedral of ST. Mark, Venice Acropolis aT nighT, AThens

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Russia Far East ST. Basil's CaThedral, Red Square Guided by The governmenT agency In TourisT, Senior Mike Schneiderman and his Tamily Travelled in The Union of SovieT SocialisT Republics spending The maioriTy of Their Time in Moscow and Leningrad. ST. Basil's CaThedraI lies in Red Square nexT To The cold, high walls of The Kremlin, policy seaT of The USSR. All The produce Trade in The souTheasT Asian ciry of Bangkok Takes place on The many canals ThaT run Through The hearT of The business dis- TricT. Families may live Their lives WiThin The confines of a narrow canal. The handsome carved demon is guarding The BuddhisT Temple of Dawn builT aT Bangkok Three hundred years ago. IT commemoraTes a baTTle oT The Thai againsT Mongolian invaders. Ira MoskaTel Took These picTure5 while in The Far EasT. Demon guarding Temple of The Dawn, Bangkok Floating markeT place, Bangkok