The Painted Monasteries of Bucovina - photos map

It was a horrible day in Pompeii. On 79 A.D., Mt. Vesuvius blew its top! Ash poured out of the volcano and while spitting out rocks and poisonous gas! Many people of Pompeii had gotten covered in ashes and died. About 3,360 people died that day! Pompeii was also known for its amazing murals and mosaics usually made from chips of rocks. Mosaics were put in dinning rooms and entryways to the h [ ... ]

The Church of the Annunciation, (sometimes also referred to as the Basilica of the Annunciation) is a church in Nazareth. History The church was established at the site where, according to Roman Catholic tradition, the Annunciation took place. Greek Orthodox tradition holds that this event occurred while Mary was drawing water from a local spring in Nazareth, and the Greek Orthodox Church of the [ ... ]

Upon the forest pool's deep blue Golden petalled lilies float: 
Circling silver ripples play 
Around an ancient rowing-boat. I pass along the sloping bank, 
I pause to listen, lost in dreams; 
I [ ... ]

With life's tomorrow time you grasp, 
Its yesterdays you fling away, 
And still, in spite of all remains 
Its long eternity, today. When one thing goes, another comes 
In this wide world by heave [ ... ]

A Sultan among those who over a language reign, 
Who where the flocks are pastured, there stretches their domain, 
Was sleeping on the hillside, his head laid on his arm, 
When came to him a vision [ ... ]

Hardly had I thought I should learn to perish;
Ever young, enwrapped in my robe I wandered,
Raising dreamy eyes to the star styled often
Solitude's symbol. All at once, however, you crossed my pathway - [ ... ]