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To: sandintoes who wrote (20241)	8/21/2001 9:46:43 AM
From: Barney	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 62552

How about... E...Someone who is very imaginative

To: sandintoes who wrote (20241)	8/21/2001 3:51:59 PM
From: The Philosopher	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 62552

> Outside a small Macedonian village close to the border between Greece and > strife-torn Yugoslavia, a lone Catholic nun keeps a quiet watch over a > silent convent. She is the last caretaker of the site of significant > historical developments spanning more than 2,000 years. > > When Sister Maria Cyrilla of the Order of the Perpetual Watch dies, the > convent of St. Elias will be closed by the Eastern Orthodox Patriarch of > Macedonia. > > However, that isn't likely to happen soon as Sister Maria, 53, enjoys > excellent health. > > By her own estimate, she walks 10 miles daily about the grounds of the > convent, which once served as a base for the army of Attila the Hun. In > more ancient times, a Greek temple to Eros, the god of love, occupied the > hilltop site. > Historians say that Attila took over the old temple in 439 A.D. and used > it as a base for his marauding army. > > The Huns are believed to have first collected and then destroyed a large > gathering of Greek legal writs at the site. > > It is believed that Attila wanted to study the Greek legal system, and had > the writs and other documents brought to the temple. Scholars differ on > why he had the valuable documents destroyed - either because he was barely > literate and couldn't read them, or because they provided evidence of > democratic government that did not square with his own notion of rule by > an all-powerful tyrant. > > When the Greek church took over the site in the 15th Century and the > convent was built, church leaders ordered the pagan statue of Eros > destroyed, so another ancient Greek treasure was lost. Today, there is > only the lone sister, watching over the old Hun base. > > And that's how it ends: No Huns, no writs, no Eros, and nun left on base.