Today was May 19th. My eyes opened at four oclock in the morning of Java. I calculated, it would be three oclock in the morning on the island of Bali and it would be twelve oclock in the night in India. How strange is this body! The biological clock in it automatically adjusts itself to the local ti
In 1939, the National Theater of Greece, a project founded almost six decades earlier by King George I to provide the country with a permanent theater in Athens, diversified its offer by creating an itinerant company that would travel throughout the territory staging functions in each city. It was c
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