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New Orleans:
Party days and volunteer work days
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| Rebuilding in New Orleans | Feeling pangs of conscience about dancing in the French Quarter while local residents still suffer from devastating Hurricane Katrina in 2005?
Don't worry. Party or rebuild houses. The city gains either way.
Where to party, where to rebuild
Baseball: Take me to the ballgame
Summer brings travelers to all 30 Major League ballparks and hundreds of unique fields in minor league towns. The list of fields of green seems endless -- like the baseball season that slogs through the summer into October.
Making baseball friends. Finding a ballpark.
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Exploring among the monks' skulls
at Mount Athos, Greece
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| Brother Job, an Eastern Orthodox monk, conducts a ceremony in the Chartel room at Holy Skete Prophet Elias. | Photographer Dave Houser camps out at Skete Prophet Elias in the
Monastic Republic of Holy Mount Athos, Greece.
Fortified Byzantine-style monasteries, most built between the 10th and 15th centuries, are scattered throughout the protected forests.
At Skete, Houser sees rows of skulls from monks who have died at the monastery. Each is inscribed on the forehead with just his name and dates of birth and death.
Click to read: Exploring Mount Athos |
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