According to tradition, the oracle at Delphi worked this way: In an underground room in the temple of Apollo, a specially trained woman would sit on a tripod placed over a fissure in the bedrock ...

Each monthly Produce Business magazine was just a small part of the contribution Jim Prevor made to the industry, and when he ...

The 2010 edition of the Farmers' Almanac arrived last week with its popular weather forecasts. The Almanac predicts a colder-than-normal winter in the eastern Dakotas and Minnesota, 6 degrees colder ...

Have you ever been so high that time ceased to flow? That both past and future overlapped and the present became magical? Suddenly, you possessed insight into reality, the universe, or parallel ...

DELPHI, Greece — The steep, rocky slopes of Mount Parnassus seem to scrape the sky above me. I’m standing among the ruins of one of the most famous places in the ancient world. There’s something ...

Dating back to 1400 BC, the Oracle of Delphi was the most important shrine in all Greece, and in theory all Greeks respected its independence. Built around a sacred spring, Delphi was considered to be ...

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