Cross Country Chronicles

  Artemis I is NASA's first step to returning to moon after 50 years since astronauts landed there for the last time.  The giant moon r...

  Cape Tenaron or cape Matapan is mainland Greece's southernmost point. It was the site of the Ancient city Taenarum .  Nearby is a cave...

  Santorini has changed a lot since I first visited it fifty-four years ago.  It is now one of the most glamorous and visited islands on pl...

  I returned to Santorini 20 years after my first visit.  At that time the construction had begun in earnest.  On the left you can see the s...

  I visited Santorini for the first time in 1968 while I was serving in the Greek Navy.  It was a stormy day something which is not unusual...

  The Endurance, the lost vessel of the Antarctic explorer Ernest Shackleton, was found after107 years it sank at the bottom of Weddell Sea....

The world enters the Nuclear age when the U.S. drops two atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki during WWII. Four years later the USSR tests...