Voroneț Monastery, the Sistine Chapel of the East

FROM: http://www.romaniajournal.ro/voronet-monastery-the-sistine-chapel-of-the-east/   Also known as the ‘Sistine Chapel of the East’ due to its splendid frescoes and especially to its unique color, blue Voronet, located 35 kilometers from Suceava and just 4 kilometers from Gura Humorului, is one of the most important monasteries founded by Stephan the Great. Voronet drew attention in the first place with the famous blue Voronet considered by experts a unique shade, but over time…

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Ten Things To Be Grateful For

Ten Things To Be Grateful For Submitted by Charles Hugh-Smith of OfTwoMinds blog, Being grateful boosts your happiness. Ten wonderful things I’m grateful for. Since every volume on the nearly endless shelf of pop psychology self-help books recommends working up some gratitude as the key to happiness, I’ve conjured up a list of what I’m grateful for. (Please turn your irony setting on.) 1. I’m grateful that our choice of president…

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We Like War

“War is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives. A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of the people. Only a…

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