This story appears in the December 2009 issue of National Geographic magazine. The holy peninsula of Mount Athos reaches 31 miles out into the Aegean Sea like an appendage struggling to dislocate ...

BWXT helps power the U.S. Navy, the Department of Energy, the Department of Defense, NASA and more, and they're continuing to ...

BWX Technologies (BWXT) officially opened its Innovation Campus at its Mount Athos facility, propelling the advancement of ...

However, few are as unique or as shrouded in mystique as Mount Athos, an autonomous monastic state in Greece. Nestled on a rugged peninsula in northern Greece, Mount Athos has been a center of ...

The Greek authorities point out that Mt. Athos is an autonomous region within Greece and removal of timber from the forests by monks resident in Mt. Athos is permitted under a law gazetted in 24 ...

St. Gregory Palamas lived in Greece in the 14th century. The Byzantine Emperor himself helped raise and educate St. Gregory, but the saint left the court to become a humble ...

TASS/. Mount Athos is to a great extent a source of moral foundations of the society, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Saturday on a visit to Mount Athos to mark the 1,000-year presence of ...

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