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The Oracle at Delphi!
by Cathy Lynn |
Venice!
by Cathy Lynn |
Fourteen centuries before the time of Christ, this site in Greece was known to the ancient world. Pilgrims, including Alexander the Great and the Roman Caesars, came there to know of the future. They brought their questions to a woman of above fifty years of age who was believed to have been given the gift of divination. The most highly revered person there, she and her kind were called the Pythia and are considered to be among the greatest fortunetellers of all time. When she descended into the oracular adyton; the chamber of divination, and spoke of the future, her ecstatic utterances were referred to as the Sibylline Prophesies... |
She is arguably the most beautiful city on earth. With her myriad of waterways known as lagoons, from the Rialto to the Bridge of Sighs and four hundred others, spanning canals that make this remarkable place a mythic paradise, one must actually see her to take in all of her magnificence...
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ISBN 0-9672704-7-2 |
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ISBN 0-9672704-4-8 |
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Moscow!
by Cathy Lynn |
St. Petersburg!
by Cathy Lynn |
Founded on the banks of the Moskva river in the late 9th Century; from the Boyars to the Tzars to the Bolshevik Revolution and beyond, she has endured. On more than one occasion, she has risen from the ashes like the stalwart that have lived, and live there today...
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In a delta of the river Neva, it all began. Peter the Great knelt down and declared for all to hear that on that very spot, the new city would stand. Under the Tzar’s direction and great ambition for Russia, it began to grow and prosper. In time, with additions from Catherine the Great and various others, the Venice of Russia has become a magnificent world city... |
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ISBN 0-9672704-9-9
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ISBN 0-9709364-0-0 |
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The Rainforest of Costa Rica!
by Cathy Lynn |
Aruba!
by Cathy Lynn |
Brimming with bromeliads that are positioned everywhere you turn, the panorama is a wonder to behold. As brilliantly colored butterflies dart by, take care, for there are eyelash vipers sunning themselves within reach as you wander along under the canopy of magnificent green... |
Far from the beautiful beaches and colorful cities of the travel brochures or what one envisions a paradise island to be, everywhere you turn the landscape is surprisingly stark. Some places are amazing, not because they resemble those around them, but because they are remarkably different... |
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ISBN 1-931792-28-3 |
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ISBN 1-931792-29-1 |
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