A number of years ago we spent Christmas holiday in Florence, Italy. On Christmas Eve, we took 30 minutes drive to Siena. Although every Italian city and village has a city plaza, or piazza, Siena’s is different, it is fan shaped, and slopes downward to the base of the fan where a beautiful Catholic church [...]
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In Eastern Orthodox faith, Christmas is celebrated two weeks later than in most other Christian faiths. And, of course, although Muslims in the Levant do not celebrate this holiday, they participate in the Santa Claus tradition so their children do not fee left out. In fact, in Damascus, each neighborhood hires someone to play Santa [...]
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When I surf the channels on TV, the web and even the supplement aisle in stores, I never cease to marvel at the pitchmen- and pitchwoman-hawking virtually every so-called healthy remedy one can think of, from ab and hip melter, to miracle cures for cancer, diabetes, heart disease and whatever else might or might not ail [...]
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