“When the missionaries came, they had the Bible and we had the land. They said, ‘Let us pray.’ We closed our eyes. When we opened them, we had the Bible and they had the land.”


—Archbishop Desmond Tutu



left: In 1995, French commandos storm Greenpeace's Rainbow Warrior II (https://www-cgi.cnn.com/WORLD/9508/Greenpeace/commandos.mov) after it entered the 12-nautical-mile exclusion zone surrounding Mururoa Atoll in French Polynesia.


right: Chicago’s “Cemetery Lady,” Helen Sclair (https://cnn.com/CNN/bureaus/chicago/stories/9710/
cemetery/av/pilgrim.mov), on a 1997 tour of Bohemian National Cemetery.


bottom: Katavasies from the liturgical tradition of the Orthodox Christian Church (https://www.goarch.org/access/byzantinemusic/
katavasies/stavron_xaraxas_22khz.mov), as chanted by the Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology Choir (Brookline, Massachusetts) led by Photios Ketsetzis, professor of Byzantine Music.


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