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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Thursday, August 1, 1985

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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 1, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Calendar Austria Auto Flower Belgium grand water Parade in Honor of flemish Denmark the worlds oldest amusement Park is open until Finland Helsinki France Flea 3 and Germany main Frankfurt bards this is the meeting Point of German bards nonprofessional songwriters and performances will take place All Over the City in streets and squares As Well As pubs and More than spectators were on hand last first world Folk dance Munich and More than 130 groups with members from 32 countries will 7th International chess until great Britain Royal National Eisteddfod of Battle of Channel Birmingham Angling Edgbaston Hungary performance by the state puppet als oors on Lake historic equestrian Huzsak Italy traditional fete of Luxembourg riesling Day wine festival do pinot wine fest with concerts and 12th Antiques Celebration of the internat National horse jumping and training the Netherlands Model ship world More than 350 participants from 26 countries Are expected to take the event is open daily 9 to 6 at Spain festival of the Virgen de Cebreros Avila Bull running in the streets and Sweden summer exhibitions of Art and town until porcelain factory Tours and nordic championship in potters wheel Switzerland August Rhine Turkey Art and culture first week in gallery Belgium Ostend James museum of Beautiful until called the most original personality in modern belgian was born in Denmark Copenhagen artist craftsmen Frue Arhus Arhus Arhus Art until France Paris grand until Paris Victor Hugo Centenary Maison de Ille de until Paris Rome archaeology and Urban Musee Des thermes de until Germany Berlin South american museum for Folk until great Britain London Francis Bacon Tate until about 120 works by one of the worlds most controversial painters will be on Bacon has used the Large thre Canvas triptych format since 1962 and the exhibition will be constructed around 18 such the exhibits Range from 1944 until the Italy Faenza estate Ceramic until exhibition of Ceramic work of the the Netherlands Rotterdam at the foot of the euro until end this action exhibition brings together air and there will be optical sound and Light restaurants and kaleidoscopic entry is guilders about for adults and guilders about for it is open daily 10 Athens reopens archaeological museum by Karin Hope associated press the House that Heinrich Schliemann built in Athens a Century ago and named the Palace of Troy after his most famous archaeological discovery has opened its doors again As a after years of a greek government conservation team has restored the three Story mansion overlooking Panetis Tiniou Avenue in the City Center to its former Giltan Marble its a quite unique luxuriously decorated with motifs from Schliemann finds and stamped unmistakably with his professor George an expert on the German born archaeologist on display now in the Palace of known to greeks As Iliou Are More than 300 including copies of Gold jewelry and Silver drinking vessels and original pottery unearthed by Schliemann at Troy in the they were loaned by two museums in West Berlin for the part of a festival celebrating Athens six months As cultural capital of the priceless originals disappeared As soviet troops advanced on Berlin at the end of world War when the 140million drachma million renovations Are the mansion will become Greece numismatic among its prize items will be Schliemann own collection of More than ancient an impoverished pastors son born in left school at he made a Fortune As a first in Russia then in the California Gold and became an american convinced that homers epic poems about the Trojan War were based on history not he taught himself ancient greek in order to study them and locate the legendary while excavating with his Young greek at i Sparlik on turkeys Aegean Schliemann uncovered the remains of ancient razed buildings and a Gold he was convinced he had found King prisms burned according to by the greeks after a 10year few experts now doubt that he found but his major discoveries Date from a much earlier disaster than the War Homer describes in the who teaches archaeology at Athens Schliemann finds Are usually dated around 2300 but most modern archaeologists believe homers Troy fell at least years the Troy exhibit is displayed in rooms decorated with glowing frescoes modelled on roman Wall paintings at huge carved Marble fireplaces and gilded quotations from ancient greek one painting shows cupids excavating and Reading Schliemann Meleti to pan study is everything reads a motto Over the Entrance to the archaeologists looking out on a spacious Schliemann battled for years against professional scholars who doubted his Schliemann had wanted a luxurious Home for but he waited till his reputation was finally established and celebrated it with this Korres no expense was spared in decorating the 25 room mansion designed by Ernst a German architect working in Athens and a close Friend of a stylish mixture of italian Renaissance Villa and neoclassical it was completed in the fittings included the latest in Gas lighting and stoves imported from the United the done by bavarian and austrian painters were never quite we found pencilled figures and incomplete designs on several tassos chief conservator at Athens National museum nude life size copies in terracotta of ancient greek masterpieces chosen to decorate the provoked an official protest from the prudish greek government of the but the Cream of 19th Century Athens society attended glittering balls and receptions at Schliemann the archaeologist was famed in Greece for unearthing a series of Gold stuffed Graves at legendary Home of King who led the greeks against after Schliemann died in his widow lived on in the House with their son agamemnon and daughter sold to the greek state in it became the Home of the areas Greece supreme 12 stripes Magazine August  
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