UNESCO Spotlight: Vilnius, Lithuania – City of Secrets, Smarts, and Zappa
Lithuania’s capital, Vilnius, boasts an historic Old Town so vibrantly alive that it’s a UNESCO site, filled with secrets, smarts, and even Frank Zappa. Read More
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The ancient Silk Route and MIR are featured together in a recent edition of Examiner.com, an on-line source of 21st century information and ideas. The author writes:
It ran for 4,000 miles through Eurasia, crisscrossing white-hot deserts, towering mountains and flatlands so desolate you could go weeks without seeing another human being, much less a hut, tent or yurt. It was called “the Silk Road,” and for 1,600 years it was the main trading route between East and West, linking Constantinople (now Istanbul) to Southern China.
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