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circa 280 A.D.Nicholas is born in Patara, Lycia - part of modern day Turkey. Like others of the Emperor Constantine generation, he enters a life of religious servitude. He works his way up from abbot to the archbishop of Myra - a nearby town - and gets his first nickname: Nicholas of Myra...
...Famed British explorer Freya Stark once wrote: "There are not so many places left where magic reigns without interruption, and of all those I know, the coast of Lycia was the most magical." Capture that charm?and follow the same path that Alexander the Great once traveled?by walking Turkey's first long-distance trail across an almost virgin stretch of Mediterranean coastline, tracing ruins from the Greek, Roman, Byzantine and Persian civilizations. The 510-km Lycian Way, which runs from the sleepy coastal town of Fethiye to the bustling port city of Antalya by way of ancient roads, nomad...
Famed British explorer Freya Stark once wrote: "There are not so many places left where magic reigns without interruption, and of all those I know, the coast of Lycia was the most magical." Capture that[an error occurred while processing this directive] charm - and follow the same path that Alexander the Great once traveled - by walking Turkey's first long-distance trail across an almost virgin stretch of Mediterranean coastline, tracing ruins from the Greek, Roman, Byzantine and Persian civilizations. The 510-km Lycian Way, which runs from the sleepy coastal town of Fethiye to the bustling port city...
...young and racially diverse set that sees poetry clubs as an attractive way to meet people now that the disco scene is passe. "Before, the scene was centered around doing coke or pot in your house with your friends or going out to a bar and drinking," says Lycia Naff, a Los Angeles actress. "All those same people are now in the coffeehouses." Poetry gatherings are also a relatively cheap night out. Says Loyola University student Anne Grason, at the Green Mill: "Where else can you have this much...
...Santa Klaus is the Dutch name for St. Nicholas, a Fourth Century bishop of Myra in Lycia. The patron saint of Russia, and of thieves, and boys & girls, he traditionally championed the weak against the strong, the poor against the rich. In 1941 the pseudo-cultural Ossewa Brand-wag (Ox Wagon) society denounced him as "a foreign importation unsuited to the ideals of the Afrikaners." Possibly because both Santa and Smuts wear white beards and benignity, the O.B. suggested that South African Christmas gifts should be brought by one Oupa (Grandfather) Voortrekker in an ox wagon...