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Kopaonik

Be a passenger who looks like fisherman,ready to keep on throwing his net into the sea,all day long,and to come back home,at the end of the day,quite satisfied with his catch.If you throw your fishnet into the foothill of Kopaonik you will not catch goldfish from a fairy tale,but the fairy tale itself.Rubies as red as wine,imperial crowns,icons as blue as the sky,stone castles on the tops of hills,pearl-like streams

Studenica, a peaceful retreat steeped in Orthodox heritage

The Churc of the King&the Church of the Virgin.


Studenica cast against the snow capped peaks of a nearby mountain range.


The Church of the Virgin s rose colored dome peaking out from the monastery s walls.


Perched high on a hill in the mountains of southwestern Serbia,Studenica monastery is a peaceful retreat,steepend in Serbian Orthodox Cultural and religious heritage.

Studenica is a bit off the beaten trail,even for Serbia,but its garden-covered grounds and rose-hued church domes,strikingly refined in contrast to the dark untouched forest of the surrounding hills,make the journey well worth the trouble.

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Novak Ðoković




Rafael Nadal

SHANGAI

SHANGHAI , 15 November 2007
Shanghai Tennis Masters Cup. Novak Ðoković

This heart-wrenching museum documents the bomb and its aftermath, complete with scale models of" before" and "after", melted children s tricycles and a harrowing recreation of a post-blast Hiroshima street.The first floor describes the events leading up to the bomb and attempts to give a sense of what Hiroshima was like before the war.The second floor contains a number of displays and artifacts related to the day of the bombing.Some of these are extremely graphic, evocative and-consequently-disturbing.The rest of the museum describes the pos-war struggles of the hibakusha(bomb survivors)and the state of nuclear weapons in the world tday.

HIROSHIMA

Hiroshima Peace Memorial:Better known as the A-Bomb Dome(Genbaku Domu) is Hiroshima s best-known symbol.Formerly the Prefectural Industrial Promotional Hall,it was designed by Czech Architect Jan Letzel and completed in 1915.The fanciful green dome in particular made the building a much-loved symbol in Hiroshima before the war.When the atomic bomb was dropped on August 6 , 1945, the exsplosion is thought to have taken place almost directly above the building.Its skeletal remains were among the few buildings left standing in the entire city.It was declared a UNESCO World Heritage site in 1996 amid some controversy-the United States and China both voted against the nomination for reasons related to the war, and some Japanese continue to find it a disturbing sight.It has become a symbol of the city once again,though, and the benches around the building are as likely to be occupied by Hiroshima natives reading.

ACROSS THE RIVER FROM THE PEACE MEMORIAL PARK