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Cliffs of Meteora, Greece | Six of the monasteries remain today. Of these six, four were inhabited by men, and two by women. Each monastery has fewer than 10 inhabitants. The monasteries are now tourist attractions. Average elevation is 1,027 feet.

Alice In Chains - Black Gives Way to Blue (2009)

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The Old Dark House (1932) Boris Karloff, melvyn Douglas, Charles Laughton, Lillian Bond

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The Monastery of the Holy Trinity is on top of the cliffs. It was built in 1475 and was remodeled many times in 1684, 1689, 1692, 1741.

In 1431, Joan of Arc, peasant girl whose divine visions propelled her to lead the French army at a decisive time during the Hundred Years' War, was burned at the stake for "insubordination and heresy." She was 19 years old.

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The Holy Monastery of St. Nicholas Anapausas, Greece, built in the 16th century AD, is a small church. It was decorated by the Cretan painter Theophanis Strelitzas, in 1527.

King's Chapel is the oldest Anglican/Episcopal church in Boston and the first non-Puritan church in America. It was built of wood in 1686 over the protests of the Puritans.100 years later a Quincy granite church was built around it, and the wooden church dismantled & rebuilt in Nova Scotia. It was abandoned during the Revolutionary War but soon became a Unitarian church. It's one of the oldest, if not oldest granite structures in America and Boston. There are many important sites all around it.

Fishermen at Sea by J. M. W. Turner

The Holy Monastery of Rousanou/St. Barbara, Greece, was founded in the middle of 16th century AD and decorated in 1560.

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The Holy Monastery of Great Meteoron, Greece - This is the largest of the monasteries located at Metéora. It was erected in the mid-14th century AD and was the subject of restoration and embellishment projects in 1483 and 1552. The building serves as the main museum for tourists. The Katholikon (main church), consecrated in honour of the Transfiguration of Jesus was erected in the middle of 14th c. and 1387/88 and decorated in 1483 and 1552

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The Holy Monastery of Varlaam, Greece – is the 2nd largest monastery in the Metéora complex. It was built in 1541 and embellished in 1548. It was built in 1541/42 and decorated in 1548, while the esonarthex was decorated in 1566. The old refectory is used as a museum while north of the church is the parekklesion of the Three Bishops, built in 1627 and decorated in 1637.

The Personal Jewel Collection of Elizabeth II...every girls fantasy

Russian Imperial Fabergé Eggs. (On April 22, 1907, Tsar Nicholas II presented this egg to his wife, Alexandra Fedorovna, to commemorate the birth of the tsarevich, Alexei Nicholaievich, three years earlier. Because of the Russo-Japanese War in 1904, no Imperial Easter eggs had been produced for two years. The egg contained as a surprise a diamond necklace and an ivory miniature portrait of the tsarevich framed in diamonds.)

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May 30th, 2004, Madonna was forced to pay out £250,000 in a lawsuit after copying ideas by the late French erotic photographer Guy Burton. Madonna had admitted that the video for her song 'Hollywood' was inspired by Burton.

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