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March 27, 2018 – Dr. Edwin Krupp

Devoured by Darkness – Speaker: Dr. Edwin C. Krupp, Director of the Griffith Observatory Last August’s All-American Transcontinental Total Solar Eclipse crossed the entire country and confirmed the obvious. Total solar eclipses are now monumental mass entertainment and merchandising opportunities that command world attention. In the past, however, an eclipse was the last thing people […]

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March 20, 2018 – Dr. Evaggelos Vallianatos

Pan-Hellenic Games of Ancient Greece – Speaker: Dr. Evaggelos Vallianatos The Olympic games were the oldest pan-Hellenic athletic and religious celebration among the Greeks. Similar festivals took place in Delphi (Pythian games), the Isthmus of Corinth (Isthmian games), Nemea in Argolis, Peloponnesos (Nemean games), Athens (Panathenaian games) and Dodona, Epirus. However, the festivities in Olympia,

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