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Summer 2014

Il Palio: Siena's Race for Glory

By Stowaway Magazine
July 01, 2014 12:00 AM
It's the middle of May, and you're being awakened by snare drums pounding outside your window. Tut . . . Rut tut tut . . . Rut tut tut tut tut.
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Summer 2019

Cambodia's City of Temples

By Stowaway Magazine
July 10, 0019 12:00 AM
North of Siem Reap in northern Cambodia and surrounded by encroaching jungles lies the world’s largest religious monument, Angkor Wat. The name Angkor Wat literally translates to City of Temples, indicating the temple’s massive size and grandeur.
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Winter 2018

Ode to a Grecian Yearn

By Stowaway Magazine
December 30, 0017 12:00 AM
While living in the American Rockies for a few years as a visiting professor, Loula missed Greece. It wasn’t just that no one in her new town shared her Orthodox upbringing or that the only version of her native language taught at the local university wasn’t even modern Greek. She missed her native land’s cuisine, its rich age, its sun-kissed hills and whitewashed seaside adobe homes.
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Fall 2012

Petra: Lost City of Stone

August 29, 0012 12:00 AM
Deep in the Kingdom of Jordan lies Petra, a city whose name refers to the rock from whence it was chiseled. The Nabateans, ancient inhabitants of Jordan, carved this city from the sides of desert sandstone cliffs more than three thousand years ago—complete with water systems, waterfalls, and other beautiful and useful structures. During the rule of empires now ancient, Petra was known as a place of wealth and thriving trade.
3 Min Read
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