HISTORICAL ARTICLES

Headless statue of Athena Art of Hadrian’s Villa: H eadless Statue of Athena is made of Luna marble and this marvelous piece from Hadrian’s Villa is a headless statue of Athena of theVescovali-Arezzo Type. The Headless statue of Athena was presumably made according to a Greek model attributed to Praxiteles` workshop.A large number of Roman copies have survived and one complete figure of this type can be seen in the Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg. Two other near complete copies are housed in the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridgeas well as in the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford . The statue of goddess is depicted wrapped in a himation(cloak).She stands with her left hand resting on her hip and would have carried a spear in her lost right hand. She wears her aegis bordered with small snakes over the shoulders . The   aegis was Zeus` magical breastplate which he lent to his daughter Athena in honor of her role in principled warfare ,in the Homeric corpus . In most accounts ,it was described as

The Great Fire of London In the early morning hours, the Great Fire of London breaks out in the house of King Charles II’s baker on Pudding Lane near London Bridge. It soon spread to Thames Street, where warehouses filled with combustibles and a strong easterly wind transformed the blaze into an inferno. When the Great Fire finally was extinguished on September 6, more than four-fifths of London was destroyed. Miraculously, only 16 people were known to have died. The Great Fire of London was a disaster waiting to happen. London of 1666 was a city of medieval houses made mostly of oak timber. Some of the poorer houses had walls covered with tar, which kept out the rain but made the structures more vulnerable to fire. Streets were narrow, houses were crowded together, and the firefighting methods of the day consisted of neighborhood bucket brigades armed with pails of water and primitive hand pumps. Citizens were instructed to check their homes for possible dangers, but there were many i

Floridian village   *Welcome to Spruce Creek, where you can park your plane in your driveway. Spruce Creek community of Florida has residents almost each of whom own a plane London:  A village, Spruce Creek community of Florida, has residents almost each of whom own a plane. AN old air base has been transformed into a village where all the residents are elite pilots and park PLANES outside of their homes instead of cars. Around 5,000 residents have made the former military area used during the Second World War their home. The neighbourhood has paved taxiways to guide pilots to each of the 1,500 homes and 700 hangars in the private community. Prices in the Spruce Creek Fly-in airpark in Florida range from £100,000 for a small condo to millions of pounds for a hangar mansion. A spokesperson for Karlhaus Realty, who sell property at Spruce Creek, said: "The sign that reads, 'Caution, Children and Adults at Play' is the first thing a visitor sees after driving through the secu