Word: aegean
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Gheros (The Old Man), as Greeks affectionately called him, was born on the Aegean Island of Samos in 1860-according to most accounts; some people declare that he was born earlier than that, but that he liked to chop a few years off his age. As an archeologist, he spent years digging amid Greece's ancient ruins, published such learned works as Hades in Antique Art and The Maidens of the Acropolis. In 1900 he turned from archeology to politics, fought the Turks' despotic rule of Samos...
Porters will put up at the Ritz. From Paris he plans to motor to Rome and, naturally, on to Venice. From Italy he will fly to Athens. Then he will take a yacht-already chartered-and trace a lazy course among the sunny Greek islands of the Aegean...
...young English dead in World War I, the name of Rupert Brooke was one of the first that usually came to mind. Headed for the Dardanelles assault in 1915, Brooke got septicemia from a lip infection, drowsed off in a fever on shipboard and was buried on the Aegean island of Skyros. He was 27. His generation, bred in formal beauty and ancient peace, numbered many gallant young men; but by all accounts Brooke had the best looks and the greatest charm. Winston Churchill, then First Lord of the Admiralty, wrote at his death: "Joyous, fearless, versatile, deeply instructed, with...
...bishop referred to a famous heroine of the Greek War of Independence in the 18203. After her husband was captured and executed by the Turks, Lascarina Bouboulina replaced him as a sea raider, took command of his ship and effectively harried Turkish shipping in the Aegean...
...high-ranking brass of the Air Force and Marine Corps, who hurried off to conferences and staff consultations. Some bounced in jeeps along the cratered, axle-snapping roads of Macedonia and Thrace, to inspect Greek Army units. Offshore, units of COMNAVMED, including the carrier Leyte, prowled around the Aegean islands...