Download or read book The Lighthouses of Greece written by Elinor De Wire and published by Pineapple Press Inc. This book was released on 2010 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With thousands of islands adrift in cerulean waters and a long, labyrinthine coastline, Greeks have always traveled liquid highways. They built the world's first documented lighthouse at the Mediterranean port of Alexandria more than two-thousand years ago, and since that time countless sentinels have risen and fallen on Greek shores. Weather, warfare, erosion, and earthquakes have reduced some to rubble, but more than 100 traditional stone lighthouses still stand in Greece today--old sentries keeping watch over every vessel, large or small, from freighters and tankers and cruise ships to fishermen and ferries. Their romance, beauty, and history are captured in this handy guidebook. Beguiling images, fascinating histories, and helpful travel information will guide you to these beloved seamarks in the land of Hellene.
Download or read book Beacon on the Rock written by Peter Williams and published by Birlinn Limited. This book was released on 2004 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Beacon on the Rock' tells the fascinating history of the lighthouse, including stories of human skill, endeavour and indefatigable resolve in the face of the physical, emotional and mental obstacles of the ocean.
Download or read book Sea and stone lighthouses of Greece written by Giannēs Skoulas and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book State Succession to International Responsibility written by Patrick Dumberry and published by Martinus Nijhoff Publishers. This book was released on 2007 with total page 541 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume addresses the controversial issue of State succession to international responsibility. It deals with two distinct questions. Firstly, whether or not there is State succession to obligations arising from internationally wrongful acts committed by the predecessor State against a third State before the date of succession. Secondly, whether or not there is State succession to the right to claim reparation as a consequence of internationally wrongful acts committed by a third State against the predecessor State before the date of succession. Winner 2008 ASIL Certificate of Merrit for High Technical Craftsmanship And Utility To Practicing Lawyers And Scholars.
Download or read book Greek Lighthouses written by and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Lighthouses of the Mid Atlantic Coast written by and published by Voyageur Press (MN). This book was released on 2011-03-11 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Interest in the history and preservation of lighthouses has never been stronger. Lighthouses of the Mid-Atlantic Coast details the history of lighthouses and much more, and shows why these structures continue to fascinate us. Discover what life for lighthouse keepers was really like. Learn about the history of U.S. colonial lighthouses and the role lighthouses have played in several wars. Meet the brave, nefarious, and colorful characters who served as lighthouse keepers and government overseers. Learn about lighthouse technology and architecture and find out how these treasures are being preserved.
Download or read book New Greece written by Lewis Sergeant and published by . This book was released on 1878 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Justification and Excuse in International Law written by Federica Paddeu and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-01-11 with total page 609 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first comprehensive study of the distinction between justification and excuse under the international law of state responsibility.
Download or read book The Lighthouse of Alexandria written by Charles River Charles River Editors and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-05-06 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: *Includes pictures. *Includes historic accounts that describe the Lighthouse. *Explains the debates over how the lighthouse was built and operated, and how it was destroyed. *Includes a bibliography for further reading. "At the harbor of Alexandria stands the tower called Pharos, the first wonder. It is held together by glass and lead and is 600 yards high" - Epiphanius the Monk "The Pharos today is composed of four stages. The first, of a rectangular design, is remarkably built in rectangular cut stones, of which the joints are so well concealed that the whole seems to be formed of a single block of stone, remaining insensible to the ravages of time." - Al Bakri, a medieval traveler and writer. Over 2,000 years ago, two ancient writers named Antipater of Sidon and Philo of Byzantium authored antiquity's most well known tour guides. After the two Greeks had traveled around the Mediterranean, they wrote of what they considered to be the classical world's greatest construction projects. While there is still some question as to who actually authored the text attributed to Philo and when it was authored, their lists ended up comprising the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, igniting interest in the ones they chose and inspiring subsequent generations to identify their own era's Seven Wonders. The youngest of the Wonders also turned out to be the most practical and one of the longest-lived, surviving into the late Middle Ages. It was a lighthouse built on the northern coast of Egypt in Africa, at the Greek city founded in Alexander's name. It was the Pharos, the Great Lighthouse of Alexandria. Among antiquity's wonders, the Lighthouse of Alexandria was fairly unique both in terms of its purpose and its secular nature. While pyramids and statues served religious purposes in Egypt and Greece, and others were impressive works of art, the origins of the Lighthouse were not even as a lighthouse at all. Instead, the large formation on the island of Pharos in the harbor of Alexandria was originally meant to help sailors identify the location of the city during the day, and some speculate it was not until later that Alexandrians decided to make it a true lighthouse that would serve sailors at night. Julius Caesar himself noted the Lighthouse's other practical use in his commentaries about Rome's civil wars: "Now because of the narrowness of the strait there can be no access by ship to the harbour without the consent of those who hold the Pharos. In view of this, Caesar took the precaution of landing his troops while the enemy was preoccupied with fighting, seized the Pharos and posted a garrison there. The result was that safe access was secured for his...supplies and reinforcements." It's easy to understand Caesar's point, because while there is still debate over its height, the Lighthouse of Alexandria was unquestionably one of the tallest man-made structures in the world at the time, if not the tallest. While ancient accounts often exaggerated its height, medieval Arab sources often claimed it was somewhere around 300-350 feet tall, with an incredibly wide base, and those sources wrote at a time where it had already required repairs due to earthquake damage. Efforts to repair it kept going until the 14th century, when the damage was so extensive that it was mostly left in ruins, the last of which were taken for other building projects and/or slipped underneath the Mediterranean. Fortunately, due to descriptions of the lighthouse and archaeological remains, modern scholars are able to understand this wonder better than most, and there may even be future attempts to build a replica and bring it back to life. The Lighthouse of Alexandria covers the ancient wonder's history and the mysteries surrounding it, including the debate over how it was built, operated, and destroyed. Along with pictures and a bibliography, you will learn about the Lighthouse of Alexandria like never before.
Download or read book The Story of Our Lighthouses and Lightships written by W. H. Davenport Adams and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-12 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Story of Our Lighthouses and Lightships: Descriptive and Historical Popularly, the lighthouse seems to be looked upon as a modern invention, - and if we consider it in its present form, completeness, and efficiency, we shall be justified in limiting its history to the last two centuries; but as soon as men began to go down to the sea in ships, they must also have begun to experience the need of beacons to guide them into secure channels, and warn them from hidden dangers, and the pressure of this need would be stronger in the night even than in the day. So soon as a want is strongly felt, man's invention hastens to supply it; and we may be sure, therefore, that in the very earliest ages of civilization lights of some kind or other were introduced for the benefit of the mariner. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece written by John Addington Symonds and published by IndyPublish.com. This book was released on 1898 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: CONTENTS Ravenna Rimini May in Umbria The Palace of Urbino Vittoria Accoramboni Autumn Wanderings Parma Canossa Fornovo Florence and the Medici The Debt of English to Italian Literature Popular Songs of Tuscany Popular Italian Poetry of the Renaissance The 'Orfeo' of Poliziano Eight Sonnets of Petrarch
Download or read book Sketches in Italy and Greece written by John Addington Symonds and published by . This book was released on 1879 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
