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240 , Z' The ruins of the Temple of Nike . . . now being partially restored. Athens A return to the more familiar, with pilgrimages to the ancient world dozing over a modern city. On ESSEX's return from the Orient to the more familiar Mediterranean, her first port of call was Athens, oldest city visited on the cruise. Long called the fountainhead of Western culture, Athens today is rich in monuments of many different periods, which ESSEX sightseers spent hours photo- graphing and viewing. The sights of ancient Athens, however, seemed to particularly overwhelm the city, drawing the tourist with a great, compelling force. Over the city rises the Acropolis, the rock itself, two hundred thirty feet above the city, five hundred twenty feet above the sea, covered with the magnificent ruins of great temples. At the base of the Acropolis, the Odeon, the Theatre of Dionysius, . . somewhat to the south, Hadrian's Arch, the Temple of Zeus . . . and crowning the hill itself, the Parthenon, its marble perfec- tion echoing all the glory that was Greece, its design a silent tribute to the genius of the early Grecian artists who created the magnificent building, frieze and sculp- tures. i Below is the modern city of Athens, a quiet, dusty, stately place, filled with the curious contrasts which mark any great and cosmopolitan metropolis. . .the strange mixtures of the simple and elaborate, the an- cient and contemporary, the lavish and the run-down. Athens, was, to all ESSEX men, a city of contrast, and yet this contrast itself was the personality of the city, dominated bythe giant monuments to her greater past. The King's Guarcl, well known for their picturesque and col- orful uniforms.
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Boot chiets line up tor-T.L. Ruth, ADC, J.A. Royal, RMC, H.L. Clifton, GMC, .l. Thibocleaux, SDC, P. Foster, SDC, Q.M. Wolchlco, AOC. Wag Now eat! Captain S.S. Searcy congratulates All the possessors of the new quarter ENS. M.G. Wright on his promotion to inch gold stripe with Captain Searcy LTJG. after promotion to LTJG's. 239 .-...-1 qi'
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