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"Blue Birds" of Crete, Fresco Art at Knossos, Greece

Bull dancing|A Minoan practice in which teams of young men and women approach a charging bull, and one after the other grasp its horns, leap on its back, and then to the ground.fresco|a wall painting made by applying paint to wet plaster

She is clothed with strength and dignity; She laughs at the days to come.

Fresco Of Women Gathering Saffron -- From the Bronze-age excavation of the Minoan town of Akrotiri on the Island of Santorini, Greece -- National Archaeological Museum -- Athens, Greece

The Dreaded Mammogram Valerie says: The annual pap smear - during which a strange man or woman brings your private parts into contact with speculums, gels, swabs, and probing fingers in rubber gloves, all while your legs are up in the air and you can’t see what’s going on – has nothing on the periodic mammogram - during which a strange woman flattens and locks your breast in a vise that conjures up lobster claws and iron maidens, and then leaves the room while you’re half naked, immobile and…

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Blind man in doorway of his house, Crete, Greece, 1964 - Greek America Foundation; Photograph by Constantine Manos, Magnum Photographer

Greek Customs, habits, traditions in Crete and Greece. Worry beads, white trees, dowry, Greek men, Greek priests, tips for tourists, facts about Greek women

Evans, Arthur J. 1921. The Palace of Minos: A Comparative Account of the Successive Stages of the Early Cretan Civilization as Illustrated by the Discoveries at Knossos, Vol. 1. pp. 544-6, fig. 397, London: Macmillan & Co

Fresco With Motives Of Spring -- From the Bronze-age excavation of the Minoan town of Akrotiri on the Island of Santorini, Greece -- National Archaeological Museum -- Athens, Greece

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