jefff@cadovax.UUCP (Jeffery H. Fields) (07/30/85)
The Parthenon was not blow up by the Turks as cdp@uiucdcsb.Uiuc.ARPA asserts. It was none other than the British under the leadership of that fearless leader Lord Nelson that shelled the Parthenon. The Brits shelled it because the Turks were using it as a munition dump. The Turks believed that no civilized nation would attack such a monument in Western Civilization. Nelson, acting as a true paragon of civilization looted the Acropolis and sent back most of the statuary to England. -- Jeff Fields {ucbvax,ihnp4,decvax}!trwrb!cadovax!jefff Pax vobiscum.